These fourteen conference papers report on osteoarchaeological
evidence from sites across Britain and, in addition to discussing
what this material reveals about past populations, propose
methodologies for handling and analysing old bone and for
understanding the deposition processes. The largely technical
papers cover such subjects as: the effects of taphonomy and
funerary practices on the state of preservation of human remains;
why post-mortem features should not be ignored; bacterial growth
and the preservation of the dead; burial in Irish megalithic tombs;
the deplacement and destruction of skeletal remains in early
medieval Wessex; post-medieval Tallow Hill Cemetery in Worcester;
late Neolithic skeletal remains from Raven Scar Cave in the
Yorkshire Dales; evidence of Paget's disease at Norton Priory in
Cheshire; northwest European bog bodies; gender roles among the
hunter-gatherers of Florida; local human evolution in the Pampas of
Argentina; remains from the Neolithic tombs of Orkney; biological
asymmetry in humans; variations in the occipital bone; estimating
age at death.
General
Imprint: |
Bar Publishing
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
British Archaeological Reports International Series |
Release date: |
June 2005 |
First published: |
2005 |
Editors: |
Margaret Clegg
• Sonia R Zakrzewski
|
Dimensions: |
297 x 210mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
137 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-84171-823-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
Archaeology >
General
|
LSN: |
1-84171-823-8 |
Barcode: |
9781841718231 |
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