History Skeletal Analysis P

Subtitled Reconstructing history through skeletal analysis', the fourteen papers in this volume address the practical and scientific issues involved in studying cemetery remains in North America. Though using American and Canadian case studies, many of the papers have wider application and relevance. Contributors include: L Goldstein (Politics, law, pragmatics and human burial excavations); D Ubelaker (Historic cemetery analysis); S Nawrocki (Taphonomic processes in historic cemeteries); S Saunders & others (Can skeletal samples accurately represent the living population they come from?); J Harrington & R Blakely (Bioarchaeology of historic remains in nonmortuary contexts); C LArsern & others (Life and death on the Midwestern frontier); T Crist (Bone chemistry analysis and documentary archaeology) .

Author: Grauer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 04/03/1995
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.17w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9780471042792

About the Author

Anne L. Grauer received her Ph.D. in biological anthropology from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Her research interests include paleopathology (the study of ancient human disease) and paleodemography (the study of ancient human mortality, fertility, and migration patterns). In particular, Dr. Grauer's research interests focus on the lives of women and the impact that sex and gender have on morbidity and mortality.