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Informationen zum Autor Holger Schutkowski is a Reader in Biological Anthropology in the Department of Archaeological Sciences at the University of Bradford. Klappentext This book examines how biocultural information can be explored using skeletal evidence gained from studies in a wide range of subdisciplines. Zusammenfassung The assembled chapters in this book explore approaches that allow a biocultural identity to be discovered. They also explore approaches that allow the detection of human lifestyle and living conditions! and the meaning of biological information from human remains provides for the understanding of a cultural setting. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction Holger Schutkowski; 2. Historic dimensions to the study of human populations Don Brothwell; 3. Forensic anthropology serving justice Sue Black; 4. Biological measures of the standard of living Richard H. Steckel; 5. Ecology, culture and disease in past human populations Donald J. Ortner and Holger Schutkowski; 6. The fossil evidence of seasonality and environmental change Gabriele A. Macho; 7. Thoughts for food - evidence and meaning of past dietary habits Holger Schutkowski; 8. Ancient proteins: what remains to be detected? Matthew Collins, Enrico Cappellini, Michael Buckley, Kirsty E. H. Penkman, Rebecca C. Griffin and Hannah E. Koon; 9. Enamel traces of early lifetime events Louise Humphrey; 10. Using DNA to investigate the human past Beth Shapiro, M. Thomas Gilbert and Ian Barnes; 11. Isotopes and human migration: case studies in biogeochemistry T. Douglas Price; 12. From bodies to bones and back: theory and human bioarchaeology Kirsi Lorentz.
