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Title Bioarchaeology of East Asia : Movement, Contact, Health / edited by Kate Pechenkina and Marc Oxenham ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2013]
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Series Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local, regional, and global perspectives
Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past.
Contents Research on human skeletal biology in East Asia: a historical overview / Kate Pechenkina and Marc Oxenham -- Human ecology in continental and insular East Asia / Kate Pechenkina and Marc Oxenham -- Biological indicators of population histories in East Asia. The population history of China and Mongolia from the Bronze Age to the Medieval period (2500 BC-AD 1500) / Christine Lee ; Mongolian origins and cranio-morphometric variability: Neolithic to Mongolian Period / Tumen Dashtseveg ; A nonmetric comparative study of past and contemporary Mongolian and Northeast Asian crania / Erdene Myagmar ; Tuberculosis and population movement across the Sea of Japan from the Neolithic Period to the Eneolithic / Takao Suzuki ; Biological connections across the Sea of Japan: a multivariate comparison of ancient and more modern crania from Japan, China, Korea, and Southeast Asia / Michael Pietrusewsky ; Population dispersal from East Asia into Southeast Asia: evidence from cranial and dental morphology / Hirofumi Matsumura and Marc Oxenham -- Community health. Conflict and trauma among nomadic pastoralists on China's northern frontier / Jacqueline T. Eng and Zhang Quanchao - Stresses of life: a preliminary study of degenerative joint disease and dental health among ancient populations of Inner Asia / Michelle L. Machicek and Jeremy J. Beach ; Dental wear and oral health as indicators of diet among the early Qin People: a case study from the Xishan site, Gansu Province / Wei Miao, Wang Tao, Zhao Congcang, Liu Wu, and Wang Changsui - Yangshao oral health from West to East: effects of increasing complexity and contacts with neighbors / Kate Pechenkina, Ma Xiaolin, Fan Wenquan, Wei Dong, and Zhang Quanchao - Life on the frontier: the paleopathology of human remains from the Chinese Early Imperial Taojiazhai Mortuary site / Zhang Jinglei ; Bioarchaeological perspectives on systemic stress during the agricultural transition in prehistoric Japan / Daniel H. Temple and Clark Spencer Larsen ; Change in the linear growth of long bones with the adoption of wet-rice agriculture in Japan / Kenji Okazaki ; Trauma and infectious disease in Northern Japan: Okhotsk and Jomon / Marc Oxenham, Hirofumi Matsumura, and Allison Drake ; A paleohealth assessment of the Shih-San-Hang site from Iron Age Taiwan / Liu Chin-Hsin, John Krigbaum, Tsang Cheng-Hwa, and Liu Yi-Chang ; Trajectories of health in early farming communities of East Asia / Kate Pechenkina, Ma Xiaolin, and Fan Wenquan ; East Asian bioarchaeology: major trends in a temporally, genetically, and eco-culturally diverse region / Marc Oxenham and Kate Pechenkina
Summary Examines current understandings of human population histories, adaptations, dietary changes, and health variations within the geographical context of ancient east Asia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Human remains (Archaeology) -- East Asia
Excavations (Archaeology) -- East Asia
Human skeleton -- Analysis
Paleopathology -- East Asia
Paleoanthropology -- East Asia
Paleopathology -- methods
Anthropology, Physical -- methods
Human Migration -- history
Diet -- history
Health Status
History, Ancient
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Human remains (Archaeology)
Human skeleton -- Analysis
Paleoanthropology
Paleopathology
SUBJECT East Asia -- Antiquities
East Asia. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040525
Asia, Eastern
Subject East Asia
Form Electronic book
Author Pechenkina, Ekaterina A. (Ekaterina Alexandrovna)
Oxenham, Marc
Larsen, Clark Spencer.
ISBN 9780813045016
0813045010
0813046262
9780813046266