Human Biologists in the Archives - Demography, Health, Nutrition and Genetics in Historical Populations (Paperback, Revised)

Many physical anthropologists study populations using data that come primarily from the historical record. For this volume's authors, the classic anthropological 'field' is not the glamour of an exotic locale, but the sometimes tedium of the dusty back rooms of libraries, archives and museum collections. This book tells of the way in which archival data inform anthropological questions about human biology and health. The authors present a diverse array of human biological evidence from a variety of sources including the archaeological record, medical collections, church records, contemporary health and growth data and genetic information from the descendants of historical populations. The papers demonstrate how the analysis of historical documents expands the horizons of research in human biology, extends the longitudinal analysis of microevolutionary and social processes into the present and enhances our understanding of the human condition.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
Release date:	September 2005
First published:	2003
Editors:	D. Ann Herring • Alan C. Swedlund
Dimensions:	235 x 160 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	360
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-02011-4
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > General
LSN:	0-521-02011-5
Barcode:	9780521020114

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