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"Harnessing the concept of 'the power of one, ' this book guides
the reader into the past using carefully woven biographies rich in
detail and scope."--Anne L. Grauer, Loyola University, Chicago "The
populational approach to bioarchaeology tends to be monochrome in
its efforts to answer broader research-oriented questions. This
volume splashes the past with color through a select group of
individuals who actually experienced it."--Margaret A. Judd,
University of Pittsburgh From Bronze Age Thailand to Viking
Iceland, from an Egyptian oasis to a family farm in Canada, "The
Bioarchaeology of Individuals" invites readers to unearth the daily
lives of people throughout history. Covering a span of more than
four thousand years of human history and focusing on individuals
who lived between 3200 BC and the nineteenth century, the essays in
this book examine the lives of nomads, warriors, artisans, farmers,
and healers. The contributors employ a wide range of tools,
including traditional macroscopic skeletal analysis, bone
chemistry, ancient DNA, grave contexts, and local legends, sagas,
and other historical information. The collection as a whole
presents a series of osteobiographies--profiles of the lives of
specific individuals whose remains were excavated from
archaeological sites. The result offers a more "personal" approach
to mortuary archaeology; this is a book about people--not just
bones. Ann L.W. Stodder is a research associate in anthropology at
the Field Museum. Ann M. Palkovich is an associate professor
emerita of anthropology at George Mason University.
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