Simon Mays

The Archaeology of Human Bones (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the analysis of human skeletal remains from archaeological sites, introducing students to the anatomy of bones and teeth and the nature of the burial record.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351696012
• Artikelnr.: 61122363

Autorenporträt

Simon Mays is currently Human Skeletal Biologist for Historic England, based in Portsmouth, UK. He is also a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, and a Honorary Fellow at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh. His research interests span all areas of archaeological human skeletal remains. Previous books include Advances in Human Palaeopathology (2008) edited with Ron Pinhasi, and The Bioarchaeology of Metabolic Bone Disease, 2nd edition (2020) authored with Megan Brickley and Rachel Ives.

Inhaltsangabe

1. THE NATURE OF BONES AND TEETH
2. THE NATURE OF THE BURIAL RECORD
3. ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK ON BURIAL GROUNDS
4. THE ASSESSMENT OF AGE AND SEX
5. METRIC VARIATION IN THE SKULL
6. METRIC VARIATION IN THE POST-CRANIAL SKELETON
7. NON-METRIC VARIATION
8. BONE DISEASE
9. DENTAL DISEASE
10. TRACES OF INJURY ON THE SKELETON
11. STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS
12. DNA ANALYSIS
13. CREMATED BONE
14. ETHICS AND HUMAN REMAINS