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This book is entirely devoted to the study of children's skeletons
from archaeological and forensic contexts. It provides an extensive
review of the osteological methods and theoretical concepts of
their analysis. Non-adult skeletons provide a wealth of information
on the physical and social life of the child from their growth,
diet and age at death, to factors that expose them to trauma and
disease at different stages of their lives. This book covers the
factors that affect non-adult skeletal preservation; the assessment
of their age, sex and ancestry; growth and development; infant and
child mortality including infanticide; weaning ages and disease of
dietary deficiency; skeletal pathology; personal identification and
exposure to trauma from birth injuries, accidents and child abuse;
providing insights for graduates and postgraduates in osteology,
palaeopathology and forensic anthropology.
This book is the first to be entirely devoted to the study of
children's skeletons from archaeological and forensic contexts. It
provides an extensive review of the osteological methods and
theoretical concepts of their analysis. Non-adult skeletons provide
a wealth of information on the physical and social life of the
child from their growth, diet and age at death, to factors that
expose them to trauma and disease at different stages of their
lives. This book covers the factors that affect non-adult skeletal
preservation; the assessment of their age, sex and ancestry; growth
and development; infant and child mortality including infanticide;
weaning ages and disease of dietary deficiency; skeletal pathology;
personal identification and exposure to trauma from birth injuries,
accidents and child abuse; providing new insights for graduates and
postgraduates in osteology, palaeopathology and forensic
anthropology.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
The Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of the British
Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology
(BABAO) held at the University of Reading in 2007. Contents: 1) A
life course perspective of growing up in medieval London: evidence
of sub-adult health from St Mary Spital (London) (Rebecca Redfern
and Don Walker); 2) Preservation of non-adult long bones from an
almshouse cemetery in the United States dating to the late
nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries (Colleen Milligan,
Jessica Zotcavage and Norman Sullivan); 3) Childhood oral health:
dental palaeopathology of Kellis 2, Dakhleh, Egypt. A preliminary
investigation (Stephanie Shukrum and JE Molto); 4) Skeletal
manifestation of non-adult scurvy from early medieval Northumbria:
the Black Gate cemetery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Diana Mahoney-Swales
and Pia Nystrom); 5) Infantile cortical hyperostosis: cases, causes
and contradictions (Mary Lewis and Rebecca Gowland); 6) Biological
Anthropology Tuberculosis of the hip in the Victorian Britain
(Benjamin Clarke and Piers Mitchell); 7) The re-analysis of Iron
Age human skeletal material from Winnall Down (Justine Tracey); 8)
Can we estimate post-mortem interval from an individual body part?
A field study using sus scrofa (Branka Franicevec and Robert
Pastor); 9) The expression of asymmetry in hand bones from the
medieval cemetery at Ecija, Spain (Lisa Cashmore and Sonia
Zakrezewski); 10) Returning remains: a curator's view (Quinton
Carroll); 11) Authority and decision making over British human
remains: issues and challenges (Piotr Bienkowski and Malcolm
Chapman); 12) Ethical dimensions of reburial, retention and
repatriation of archaeological human remains: a British perspective
(Simon Mays and Martin Smith); 13) The problem of provenace:
inaccuracies, changes and misconceptions (Margaret Clegg); 14)
Native American human remains in UK collections: implications of
NAGPRA to consultation, repatriation, and policy development (Myra
J Giesen); 15) Repatriation - a view from the receiving end: New
Zealand (Nancy Tayles).
Thirty-seven papers, from a conference held in Bradford in 1999,
examine leprosy from all angles: as a historical disease
overwhelmed by stigma and as a condition that is still prevalent in
much of the world despite new medications. Contributors discuss the
medical diagnosis and treatment of leprosy, its effects on the
skeleton using archaeological and historical evidence, its
occurrence in the archaeological record worldwide and detecting its
traces in DNA. Case studies are taken from across the ancient,
medieval and modern worlds, including the Near East, Roman Egypt,
medieval England, Wales and Ireland, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia,
Asia and the Pacific.
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