Ancient Health - Skeletal Indicators of Agricultural and Economic Intensification (Paperback)

"Pulls together a global sampling of excellent research on a topic of great interest to scholars of prehistory that otherwise would be difficult to assemble or in some cases to even access."--Patricia M. Lambert, Utah State University 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 health declined after the adoption of farming and the rise of civilization, this book greatly enlarges the geographical range of paleopathological studies by including new work from both established and up-and-coming scholars. Moving beyond the western hemisphere and western Eurasia, this collection involves studies from Chile, Peru, Mexico, the United States, Denmark, Britain, Portugal, South Africa, Israel, India, Vietnam, Thailand, China, and Mongolia. Adding great significance to this volume, the author discusses and successfully rebuts the arguments of the "osteological paradox" that long have challenged work in the area of quantitative paleopathology, demonstrating that the "paradox" has far less meaning than its proponents argue. Mark Nathan Cohen is University Distinguished Teaching Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh. Gillian M. M. Crane-Kramer is visiting assistant professor of anthropology at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh.

General

Imprint:	University Press of Florida
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2012
First published:	December 2007
Editors:	Mark N. Cohen • Gillian M. M. Crane-Kramer
Dimensions:	158 x 234 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	464
ISBN-13:	978-0-8130-4403-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > General
LSN:	0-8130-4403-0
Barcode:	9780813044033

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