Program and Abstracts. — Università del Salento, 2019. — 248 p. — ISBN: 978-88-8305-146-3. The conference aims to encourage the presentation of most recent archaeobotanical discoveries, promote the debate on fundamental questions and foster collaboration between international scholars active in the field. The conference is dedicated to the memory of Prof. Maria Follieri, a...
University of New Mexico Press, 2017. — 312 p. This volume brings together the latest approaches in bioarchaeology in the study of sex and gender. Archaeologists have long used skeletal remains to identify gender. Contemporary bioarchaeologists, however, have begun to challenge the theoretical and methodological basis for sex assignment from the skeleton. Simultaneously, they...
With Mauro Rizzetto, Hannah Russ, Kim Vickers, and Sarah Viner-Daniels. — Oxford University Press, 2017. — 860 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–968647–6. This book presents a survey of world archaeology, from the point of view of animal remain studies. It can be considered as a showcase for world zooarchaeology. Forty-eight chapters written by researchers from twenty-five countries discuss...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 454 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–920704–6. Pigs are one of the most iconic but also paradoxical animals ever to have developed a relationship with humans. This relationship has been a long and varied one: from noble wild beast of the forest to mass produced farmyard animal from a symbol of status and plenty to a widespread religious food taboo from...
Thames & Hudson, 2015. — 224 p. Some 2,000 years ago, certain unfortunate individuals were violently killed and buried not in graves but in bogs. What was a tragedy for the victims has proved an archaeologist’s dream, for the peculiar and acidic properties of the bog have preserved the bodies so that their skin, hair, soft tissue, and internal organs - even their brains -...
University Press of Florida, 2017. — 266 p. A monumental synthesis of a half century of research, this book investigates human remains from three communities from the ancient Nubian civilization of the Nile River Valley: Meinarti, Kulubnarti, and an unnamed shantytown of underclass laborers. The analyses of these surveys chart the evolution of the field of physical...
Oxford: Archaeopress, 2006. — 200 p. — (British Archaeological Reports, International Series No. 1538). — ISBN: 1-84171-970-6. This book addresses the issue of the temporal origins of transhumant pastoralism in temperate southeastern Europe (northern half of the Balkan Peninsula). In recent years, several hypotheses have been suggested to explain when and why transhumant...
Academic Press, 1980. — 235 p. — (Studies in archaeological science). — ISBN: 0-12-074150-4. This book arose from an almost chance meeting between an archaeologist with an interest in bones and their diseases, and a veterinary pathologist with an interest in archaeology: it is hoped that the resultant text is a fusion of their ideas on animal diseases in antiquity. In recent...
Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1974. — 597 p. — ISBN: 963-05-0251-8. In the initial stages of the research on domestic animals many comprehensive works on the emergence of domestic animals appeared. However, as at that time the number of bone samples investigated was very low, these works were inevitably reduced to generalisations and offered very few concrete facts. Today, by way...
University Press of Florida, 2011. — xx + 323 p. — (Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives). — ISBN: 978-0-8130-3556-7. The current volume places emphasis on the methodology and theory of decapitation, decoration, and deformation of the human head/skull from areas as varied as Roman Britain and Spanish Colonial Georgia to...
Harvard University Press, 1987. — 140 p. On August 1, 1984, Andy Mould picked up what looked like a piece of wood at a peat-shredding mill in Cheshire, England. He tossed it toward his workmate and it fell to the ground, revealing an ancient human foot. Archaeologists using radiocarbon dating methods found that the Lindow man - named after the Lindow moss that enveloped him -...
Academic Press, 2006. — 628 p. The core subject matter of bioarchaeology is the lives of past peoples, interpreted anthropologically. Human remains, contextualized archaeologically and historically, form the unit of study. Integrative and frequently inter-disciplinary, bioarchaeology draws methods and theoretical perspectives from across the sciences and the humanities....
Academic Press, 2006. — 628 p. The core subject matter of bioarchaeology is the lives of past peoples, interpreted anthropologically. Human remains, contextualized archaeologically and historically, form the unit of study. Integrative and frequently inter-disciplinary, bioarchaeology draws methods and theoretical perspectives from across the sciences and the humanities....
Odile Jacob, 2019. — 256 p. Dans ce livre, Éric Crubézy nous emmène à la découverte des rites funéraires du monde entier et nous montre, à travers des documents inédits, qu’il est possible, malgré leur diversité apparente, de relier des pratiques aussi différentes que l’enterrement chrétien et le retournement des morts à Madagascar. De la Sibérie au Cameroun, en passant par...
London: Routledge, 1987. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0-415-15148-1. The first section of the book describes how zoo-archaeologists go about studying faunal remains from archaeological sites, and to explore the nature of these remains, and some of the information they provide. The second part discusses the relationship between humans and animals from earliest Africa to post-Medieval...
III International Interdisciplinary Meetings ‘‘Motifs through the Ages’’. Book of Abstracts. — Bytów: Muzeum Zachodniokaszubskie w Bytowie, 2017. — 52 p. — ISBN: 978-83-65472-05-2. III Międzynarodowe Spotkania Interdyscyplinarne „Motywy Przez Wieki”. Książka Abstraktów. — Bytów: Muzeum Zachodniokaszubskie w Bytowie, 2017. — 52 s. — ISBN: 978-83-65472-05-2. This book includes...
Springer, 2017. — 232 p. This volume uses bioarchaeological remains to examine the complexities and diversity of past socio-sexual lives. This book does not begin with the presumption that certain aspects of sex, gender, and sexuality are universal and longstanding. Rather, the case studies within - extend from Neolithic Europe to pre-Columbian Mesoamerica to the...
Springer, 2019. — 298 p. Over the past 20 years there has been increased research traction in the anthropology of childhood. However, infancy, the pregnant body and motherhood continue to be marginalised. This book will focus on the mother-infant relationship and the variable constructions of this dyad across cultures, including conceptualisations of the pregnant body, the...
Academic Press, 1984. — 202 p. — (Studies in Archaeological Sciences). — ISBN: 0-12-297280-5. Quantitative Zooarchaeology: Topics in the Analysis of Archaeological Faunas presents the problems in the quantification of bones and teeth from archaeological and palaeontological sites. This book discusses the various kinds of statistical manipulations that are done with the...
Routledge, 2015. — 766 p. This book is one of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986, attempting to bring together not only archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, as well as academics from contingent disciplines, but also non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. This volume...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 388 p. Archaeological discoveries of teeth provide remarkable information on humans, animals and the health, hygiene and diet of ancient communities. In this fully revised and updated edition of his seminal text Simon Hillson draws together a mass of material from archaeology, anthropology and related disciplines to provide a comprehensive...
University Alabama Press, 2018. — 328 p. A timely update on the state of bioarchaeological research, offering contributions to the archaeology, prehistory, and history of the southeastern United States. Building on the 1991 publication What Mean These Bones? Studies in Southeastern Bioarchaeology, this new edited collection from Shannon Chappell Hodge and Kristrina A. Shuler...
New York: Arcade Publishing, 2002. — 280 p. — ISBN: 1-55970-611-2. In The Molecule Hunt , a leading expert at the forefront of bio-archaeology — the discipline that gave Michael Crichton the premise for Jurassic Park —explains how this pioneering science is rewriting human history and unlocking stories of the past that could never have been told before. A revolution is underway...
University Press of Florida, 2017. — 510 p. Drawing upon wide-ranging studies of prehistoric human remains from Europe, northern Africa, Asia, and the Americas, this groundbreaking volume unites physical anthropologists, archaeologists, and economists to explore how social structure can be reflected in the human skeleton. Contributors identify many ways in which social,...
University of Washington Press, 2017. — 392 p. The desire to alter and adorn the human body is universal. While specific forms of body decoration and the motivations for them vary according to region, culture, and era, all human societies have engaged in practices designed to enhance people's natural appearance. One of the most widespread types of body art, tattooing, appears...
Springer, 2016. — 218 p. This book explores how individuals, social groups, and entire populations are impacted by the tumultuous collapse of ancient states and empires. Through meticulous study of the bones of the dead and the molecules embedded therein, bioarchaeologists can reconstruct how the reverberations of traumatic social disasters permanently impact human bodies over...
Routledge, 2008. — 408 p. Resurrecting Pompeii provides an in-depth study of a unique site from antiquity with information about a population who all died from the same known cause within a short period of time. Pompeii has been continuously excavated and studied since 1748. Early scholars working in Pompeii and other sites associated with the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius...
Routledge, 2008. — 408 p. Resurrecting Pompeii provides an in-depth study of a unique site from antiquity with information about a population who all died from the same known cause within a short period of time. Pompeii has been continuously excavated and studied since 1748. Early scholars working in Pompeii and other sites associated with the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius...
Oxbow Books, 2015. — 464 p. This two part volume brings together over 60 specialists to present 31 papers on the latest research into archaeozoology of the Near East. The papers are wide-ranging in terms of period and geographical coverage: from Palaeolithic rock shelter assemblages in Syria to Byzantine remains in Palestine and from the Caucasus to Cyprus. Papers are grouped...
A.A. Balkema, Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers, Taylor & Francis, 2001, 378 p., ISBN: 905809345X 9789058093455 9780415889452 This impeccably-researched volume skillfully reports and discusses advances in phytolith research, addressing in particular the use of phytoliths for deciphering fundamental issues in earth science and human history. Comprising thirty reviews and original...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 320 p. Donkeys carried Christ into Jerusalem while in Greek myth they transported Hephaistos up to Mount Olympos and Dionysos into battle against the Giants. They were probably the first animals that people ever rode, as well as the first used on a large-scale as beasts of burden. Associated with kingship and the gods in the ancient Near East,...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 320 p. Donkeys carried Christ into Jerusalem while in Greek myth they transported Hephaistos up to Mount Olympos and Dionysos into battle against the Giants. They were probably the first animals that people ever rode, as well as the first used on a large-scale as beasts of burden. Associated with kingship and the gods in the ancient Near East,...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 320 p. Donkeys carried Christ into Jerusalem while in Greek myth they transported Hephaistos up to Mount Olympos and Dionysos into battle against the Giants. They were probably the first animals that people ever rode, as well as the first used on a large-scale as beasts of burden. Associated with kingship and the gods in the ancient Near East,...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 320 p. Donkeys carried Christ into Jerusalem while in Greek myth they transported Hephaistos up to Mount Olympos and Dionysos into battle against the Giants. They were probably the first animals that people ever rode, as well as the first used on a large-scale as beasts of burden. Associated with kingship and the gods in the ancient Near East,...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 320 p. Donkeys carried Christ into Jerusalem while in Greek myth they transported Hephaistos up to Mount Olympos and Dionysos into battle against the Giants. They were probably the first animals that people ever rode, as well as the first used on a large-scale as beasts of burden. Associated with kingship and the gods in the ancient Near East,...
Springer, 2017. — 232 p. — (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology) This book contributes to the current discussion on climate change by presenting selected studies on the ways in which past human groups responded to climatic and environmental change. In particular, the chapters show how these responses are seen in the animal remains that people left behind in their...
Książka Abstraktów / Abstract Book. — Redakcja / Editors: Leszek Gardeła & Kamil Kajkowski. — Bytów: Muzeum Zachodnio-Kaszubskie w Bytowie, 2012. — 48 s. — (Spotkania Interdyscyplinarne Motywy Przez Wieki / Interdisciplinary Meetings Motifs Through the Ages). Książka abstraktów referatów wygłoszonych na konferencji “Motyw głowy w perspektywie porównawczej” zorganizowanej w...
University Press of Florida, 2017. — 464 p. European expansion into the New World fundamentally altered indigenous populations. The collision between East and West led to the most recent human adaptive transition that spread around the world. Paradoxically, these are some of the least scientifically understood processes of the human past. Representing a new generation of...
Kraków: Koło Naukowe Studentów Archeologii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2014. — 163 s. — ISBN: 978-83-939189-2-8. Publikacja po konferencji Koła Naukowego Studentów Archeologii UJ w Krakowie. Słowo wstępne od redakcji. Słowo wstępne dr Renaty Abłamowicz. Mikołaj Kostyrko. Budowanie relacji pomiędzy ludźmi a zwierzętami w perspektywie teorii rozszerzonego umysłu oraz prac Tima...
The History Press, 2004. — 224 p. Animal bones are one of the most abundant types of evidence found in archaeological sites dating from pre-historic times to the Middle Ages, and they can reveal a startling amount about the economy and way of life of people in the past. This is a fascinating introduction for anyone seeking to understand how these bones can shed light on our...
Springer International Publishing, 2014. — 264 p. This volume addresses the directions that studies of archaeological human remains have taken in a number of different countries, where attitudes range from widespread support to prohibition. Overlooked in many previous publications, this diversity in attitudes is examined through a variety of lenses, including academic origins,...
Springer International Publishing, 2018. — 164 p. This book expands on Archaeological Human Remains: Global Perspectives that was published in the Springer Briefs series in 2014 and which had a strong focus on post-colonial countries. In the current volume, the editors include papers that deal with non-Anglophone European traditions such as Portugal, Germany and France. In...
University Press of Florida, 2013. — 512 p. Bioarchaeology of East Asia integrates studies on migration, diet, and diverse aspects of health through the study of human skeletal collections in a region that developed varying forms of agriculture. East Asia’s complex population movements and cultural practices provide biological markers that allow for the testing of multiple...
2nd revised and expanded edition — Thames & Hudson, 2015. — 248 p. In August 2012 a search began, and on February 4, 2013, a team from Leicester University delivered its verdict to a mesmerized press room and to the world: they had found the remains of Richard III, whose legacy was perhaps the most contested of all British monarchs. Prior to this major discovery, there had been...
Oxbow Books, 2010. — 176 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84217-402-9. This volume grew out of an interdisciplinary discussion held in the context of the Leverhulme-funded project 'Changing Beliefs in the Human Body', through which the image of the body in pieces soon emerged as a potent site of attitudes about the body and associated practices in many periods. Archaeologists routinely...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 559 p. This book serves as an introductory text for students interested in the identification and the analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites. The emphasis is on animals whose remains inform us about the relationship between humans and their natural and social environments, especially site-formation processes,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. — 512 p. Skeletal Variation and Adaptation in Europeans: Upper Paleolithic to the Twentieth Century brings together for the first time the results of an unprecedented large-scale investigation of European skeletal remains. The study was conducted over ten years by an international research team, and includes more than 2,000 skeletons spanning most of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 548 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-76737-8. This is the first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, which takes a holistic view of human–animal relations in the past. Until recently, archaeological analysis of faunal evidence has primarily focused on the role of animals in the human diet and subsistence economy. This book,...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 548 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-76737-8. This is the first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, which takes a holistic view of human–animal relations in the past. Until recently, archaeological analysis of faunal evidence has primarily focused on the role of animals in the human diet and subsistence economy....
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 548 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-76737-8. This is the first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, which takes a holistic view of human–animal relations in the past. Until recently, archaeological analysis of faunal evidence has primarily focused on the role of animals in the human diet and subsistence economy....
Springer, 2002. - 391 p. (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology) The multidisciplinary research program at Akrotiri Aetokremnos is important, in my op- ion, for three reasons: two empirical and one conceptual. Quite apart from the archaeology, work at the site is a major contribution to island biogeography, in that the Phanourios sample — certainly the best from Cyprus...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — xvii+188 p. — (Topics in Contemporary Archaeology). — ISBN: 978-0-521-81822-2. Bodies intrigue us. They promise windows into the past that other archaeological finds cannot by bringing us literally face to face with history. Yet ‘the body’ is also highly contested. Archaeological bodies are studied through two contrasting perspectives that...
Proceedings of a seminar at the Field Museum of Natural History, organized by Jonathan Haas. — Fayetteville, Arkansas: Arkansas Archeological Survey, 1994. — 206 p. — (Arkansas Archeological survey research series; no. 44). — ISBN: 1-56349-075-7. For human remains that are likely to be repatriated or otherwise made unavailable for future research, an exhaustive and thorough...
Springer, 2010. — 333 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4419-0934-3. In recent years, scholars have emphasized the need for more holistic subsistence analyses, and collaborative publications towards this endeavor have become more numerous in the literature. However, there are relatively few attempts to qualitatively integrate zooarchaeological (animal) and paleoethnobotanical (plant) data, and...
Harvard University, 1976. — 136 p. Introduction to the series Introductory statements What should be measured Measurements and measuring instruments The taking of measurements Measurement of the mammalian skeleton General Skull Postcranial skeleton Measurement of the bird skeleton General Postcranial skeleton References
University Press of Florida, 2012. — 304 p. From Bronze Age Thailand to Viking Iceland, from an Egyptian oasis to a family farm in Canada, The Bioarchaeology of Individuals invites readers to unearth the daily lives of people throughout history. Covering a span of more than four thousand years of human history and focusing on individuals who lived between 3200 BC and the...
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