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Human remains can answer all sorts of questions about our
ancestors--what sort of diet they ate, what age they lived to, what
sort of living conditions they experienced, and how they died. The
Neolithic is the earliest period from which significant numbers of
human burials survive in Britain. This book looks at the history of
the study of such burials and how new scientific techniques have
massively expanded what we know about our Neolithic ancestors. As
well as the treatment of the dead, issues such as health and
subsistence are considered, along with evidence of conflict and
also the extent to which the people of Neolithic Britain can be
considered a distinct population. This is the only book
specifically dedicated to human remains from the Neolithic and
fills an important gap left by other books on the period.
13 papers from the BABAO conference in 2006. Topics vary
considerably from Anglo-Saxon times to the early twentieth century,
and from specific skeletal samples to methodological issues with
the subjects discussed including anthropometrics, palaeopathology,
the history and development of medicine, identifying immigration in
archaeological populations and modern forensics.
The fourteen papers in this volume focus on the environmental
archaeology of Britain, uncovering a rich seam of evidence from
what might, to the uninitiated, seem like the most unlikely places.
They are centred on issues looked at by Susan Limbrey during her
career, and presented in her honour on the occasion of her
retirement.
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