Product Description: Taking cues from current theoretical perspectives and capitalizing on the strengths of new and sophisticated methods of analysis, Breathing New Life into the Evidence of Death showcases the vibrancy of bioarchaeological research and its potential for bringing new life to the field of mortuary archaeology and the study of human remains...read more

Product Description: This collection explores the behavioral and social facets of funerary, mortuary, and burial rites in both past and present societies. By utilizing data from around the world and combining recent and ongoing concerns in anthropology, it takes the study of mortuary archaeology to a new and significant level of interdisciplinary research...read more

Product Description: The core subject matter of bioarchaeology is the lives of past peoples, interpreted anthropologically. Human remains, contextualized archaeologically and historically, form the unit of study. Integrative and frequently inter-disciplinary, bioarchaeology draws methods and theoretical perspectives from across the sciences and the humanities...read more

Product Description: Two thousand years ago, the Hopewell culture dominated much of eastern North America and left behind earthworks and other artifacts that continue to fascinate archaeologists. Recreating Hopewell—the first comprehensive overview of Hopewell archaeology published in a generation—represents more than two decades of new research into the vast world of the moundbuilders...read more

Product Description: Though apparently in decline during the first half of the 20th century, tuberculosis has reawakened in both developed and developing countries, particularly among susceptible populations with immunodeficiency disorders.

Product Description: Front cover is 90% ripped off from the spiral bounding. Other than that, everything is in good shape.

Product Description: Edited by Ted A. Rathbun, University of South Carolina, Columbia, and Jane E. Buikstra, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. (With 41 Contributors) CONTENTS (abridged): Reporting Forensic Cases; Studies in Identification; Forensic Anthropology in New Mexico; Forensic Archaeology; Exhumation; Perpendicular Forensic Archaeology; Bear Paws and Human Feet; Big Thompson Flood; Military Remains; The Severed Skull; Time Since Death; Burned Remains; Strangulation; Manner of Death; Fatal Trauma in a Light Aircraft Crash; Sex Determination; Identification of Adolescent Female; Oklahoma City Child Disappearances; Skeletal Aging; Microscopic Aging of Bone; Age Determination from Dentition; Geographical Race Determination; Facial Reproductions; Facial Re-produc-tion in Court; Identifying Pathology; Analysis of Osseous Material; Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust...read more