Breathing new life into the evidence of death : contemporary approaches to bioarchaeology

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Breathing new life into the evidence of death : contemporary approaches to bioarchaeology

edited by Aubrey Baadsgaard, Alexis T. Boutin, and Jane E. Buikstra

(School of American Research advanced seminar series)

School for Advanced Research Press, 2012

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-327) and index

Contents of Works

  • Making a difference : mortuary practices in Halaf times / Susan Pollock
  • Religious identity and mortuary practice : the significance of Christian burial in early medieval Ireland / Rachel E. Scott
  • The sacrifices we make of and for our children : making sense of pre-Columbian Maya practices / Pamela L. Geller
  • Crafting a bioarchaeology of personhood : osteobiogrpahical narratives from Alalakh / Alexis T. Boutin
  • Cultural determinants of ancestry : a lesson for studies of biological relatedness and ethnicity in the past / María Cecila Lozada
  • Piercing the body : Labret use, identity, and masculinity in prehistoric Chile / Christina Torres-Rouff
  • Mortuary dress as material culture : a case study from the royal cemetery of Ur / Aubrey Baadsgaard
  • Iconography and power in Sepik Skull art / Ann L.W. Stodder
  • Men take up arms for war : sex and status distinctions of humerl medial epicondylar avulsion fractures in the archaeological record / Christopher J. Knüsel

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