| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 392 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local, regional, and global perspectives |
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Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Excavating childhood from the skeletal record / Patrick Beauchesne and Sabrina C. Agarwal -- The biocultural study of childhood in the past -- The bioarchaeology of childhood: theoretical development in the field / Raelene M. Inglis and Siân E. Halcrow -- Biocultural influences of total versus exclusive breastfeeding: stable isotope evidence of European and Asian trends for the last 10,000 years / Jessica Pearson -- Biocultural and bioarchaeological approaches to infant and young child feeding in the past / Tina Moffat and Tracy Prowse -- Life, death, and burial of children on the north coast of Peru: an integrative and interpretive bioarchaeological perspective (650 b.c. -- A.D. 1750) / Haagen Klaus -- A childhood of violence: a bioarchaeological comparison of mass death assemblages from ancient Peru / J.M. Toyne -- Approaches to life history and the lifecourse in teeth and bone -- Human transitions: current perspectives on skeletal development / James H. Gosman, David A. Raichlen and Timothy M. Ryan -- Exploring linear enamel hypoplasia as an embodied product of childhood stress in late/final Jomon period foragers using incremental microstructures of enamel / Daniel H. Temple -- Dietary histories: tracing food consumption practices from childhood through adulthood using stable isotope analysis / Melanie J. Miller, Sabrina C. Agarwal and Carl H. Langebaek Rueda -- Children of the revolution: childhood health inequalities and the life course during industrialization of the 18th and 19th centuries in England / Rebecca Gowland and Sophie Newman -- Bioarchaeological analyses of children and childhood from the Kellis 2 Cemetery, Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt / Sandra Wheeler, Lana Williams and Tosha Dupras |
| Summary |
A central theme of this volume is that future work on the lives of children in antiquity should be built on a strong foundation of biocultural research that draws from, and integrates more successfully, multiple sub-disciplines, including skeletal biology and physiology, archaeology, socio-cultural anthropology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Human remains (Archaeology)
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Children, Prehistoric -- Anthropometry
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Children, Prehistoric -- Social conditions -- Research
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Physical.
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Human remains (Archaeology)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Beauchesne, Patrick, editor
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Agarwal, Sabrina C., editor
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Larsen, Clark Spencer, writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9780813052281 |
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0813052289 |
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