| History Skeletal Analysis P Contributor(s): Grauer (Author) |
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ISBN: 047104279X ISBN-13: 9780471042792 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons OUR PRICE: $171.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Physical |
| Dewey: 573 |
| LCCN: 94044503 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.17" W x 9.24" (1.01 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Subtitled Reconstructing history through skeletal analysis', the fourteen papers in this volume address the practical and scientific issues involved in studying cemetery remains in North America. Though using American and Canadian case studies, many of the papers have wider application and relevance. Contributors include: L Goldstein (Politics, law, pragmatics and human burial excavations); D Ubelaker (Historic cemetery analysis); S Nawrocki (Taphonomic processes in historic cemeteries); S Saunders & others (Can skeletal samples accurately represent the living population they come from?); J Harrington & R Blakely (Bioarchaeology of historic remains in nonmortuary contexts); C LArsern & others (Life and death on the Midwestern frontier); T Crist (Bone chemistry analysis and documentary archaeology) . |