University Press of Florida, 2007. — 464 p. Twenty years ago Mark Nathan Cohen coedited a collection of essays that set a new standard in using paleopathology to identify trends in health associated with changes in prehistoric technology, economy, demography, and political centralization. Ancient Health expands and celebrates that work. Confirming earlier conclusions that human...
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 -...
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 -...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Cell. — 2019. — 176. — p. 295-305. Nicolas Rascovan, Karl-Goran Sjogren, Kristian Kristiansen, Rasmus Nielsen, Eske Willerslev, Christelle Desnues, Simon Rasmussen. Between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago, many Neolithic societies declined throughout western Eurasia due to a combination of factors that are still largely debated. Here, we report the discovery and genome reconstruction...
Nature Communications. — 2019. — Volume 10, Article number: 4470. — 13 p. Maria A. Spyrou, Marcel Keller, Rezeda I. Tukhbatova, Christiana L. Scheib, Elizabeth A. Nelson, Aida Andrades Valtueña, Gunnar U. Neumann, Don Walker, Amelie Alterauge, Niamh Carty, Craig Cessford, Hermann Fetz, Michaël Gourvennec, Robert Hartle, Michael Henderson, Kristin von Heyking, Sarah A. Inskip,...