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Trends in Biological Anthropology 1

Author : Karina Gerdau-Radoni?
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1782978399
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book Trends in Biological Anthropology 1 written by Karina Gerdau-Radoni? and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume in the series Trends in Biological Anthropology presents 11 papers. The study of modern baboons as proxies to understand extinct hominin species’ diet and the interpretation of skeletal degenerative joint disease on the skeletal remains of extant primates are presented as case studies using methods and standards usually applied to human remains. The methodological theme continues with an assessment of the implications for interpretation of different methods used to record Linear Enamel Hypoplasia (LEH) and on the use and interpretation of three dimensional modeling to generate pictures of the content of collective graves. Three case studies on palaeopathology are presented. First is the analysis of a 5th–16th century skeletal collection from the Isle of May compared with one from medieval Scotland in an attempt to ascertain whether the former benefitted from a healing tradition. Study of a cranium found at Verteba Cave, western Ukraine, provides a means to understand interpersonal interactions and burial ritual during the Trypillian culture. A series of skulls from Belgrade, Serbia, displays evidence for beheading. Two papers focus on the analysis disarticulated human remains at the Worcester Royal Infirmary and on Thomas Henry Huxley’s early attempt to identify a specific individual through analysis of skeletal remains. The concept and definition of ‘perimortem’ particularly within a Forensic Anthropology context are examined and the final paper presents a collaborative effort between historians, archaeologists, museum officers, medieval re-enactors and food scientists to encourage healthy eating among present day Britons by presenting the ill effects of certain dietary habits on the human skeleton.

Explorations

Author : Beth Alison Schultz Shook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781931303811
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Explorations written by Beth Alison Schultz Shook and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Trends in Physical Anthropology

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781611229974
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Trends in Physical Anthropology written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Trends in Biological Anthropology

Author : British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. Conference
Publisher : Trends in Biological Anthropology
ISBN 13 : 9781785706202
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Trends in Biological Anthropology written by British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. Conference and published by Trends in Biological Anthropology. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combined papers from two conferences of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology held in 2014 and 2015. Papers look at many aspects of the archaeological application of the study of human bone, DNA and related areas including comparative faunal evidence.

Trends in Biological Anthropology

Author : British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781782978381
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (783 download)

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Download or read book Trends in Biological Anthropology written by British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarc and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Proceedings of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology 13th and 14th Annual Conferences in Edinburgh (2nd-4th September 2011) and Bournemouth (14th-16th September 2012)."

A Companion to Biological Anthropology

Author : Clark Spencer Larsen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119828058
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Biological Anthropology written by Clark Spencer Larsen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-03-10 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Biological Anthropology The discipline of biological anthropology—the study of the variation and evolution of human beings and their evolutionary relationships with past and living hominin and primate relatives—has undergone enormous growth in recent years. Advances in DNA research, behavioral anthropology, nutrition science, and other fields are transforming our understanding of what makes us human. A Companion to Biological Anthropology provides a timely and comprehensive account of the foundational concepts, historical development, current trends, and future directions of the discipline. Authoritative yet accessible, this field-defining reference work brings together 37 chapters by established and younger scholars on the biological and evolutionary components of the study of human development. The authors discuss all facets of contemporary biological anthropology including systematics and taxonomy, population and molecular genetics, human biology and functional adaptation, early primate evolution, paleoanthropology, paleopathology, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, and paleogenetics. Updated and expanded throughout, this second edition explores new topics, revisits key issues, and examines recent innovations and discoveries in biological anthropology such as race and human variation, epidemiology and catastrophic disease outbreaks, global inequalities, migration and health, resource access and population growth, recent primate behavior research, the fossil record of primates and humans, and much more. A Companion to Biological Anthropology, Second Edition is an indispensable guide for researchers and advanced students in biological anthropology, geosciences, ancient and modern disease, bone biology, biogeochemistry, behavioral ecology, forensic anthropology, systematics and taxonomy, nutritional anthropology, and related disciplines.

Biological Anthropology

Author : Craig Britton Stanford
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 : 9780205150687
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Biological Anthropology written by Craig Britton Stanford and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook presents a survey of physical anthropology, the branch of anthropology that studies the physical development of the human species. It plays an important part in the study of human origins and in the analysis and identification of human remains for legal purposes. It draws upon human body measurements, human genetics, and the study of human bones and includes the study of human brain evolution, and of culture as neurological adaptation to environment. The authors use the progressive term "biological anthropology" to mean "an integrative combination of information from the fossil record and the human skeleton, genetics of individuals and of populations, our primate relatives, human adaptation, and human behavior."

Anthropology Today

Author : M. K. Bhasin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788185264523
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book Anthropology Today written by M. K. Bhasin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.

A Companion to Biological Anthropology

Author : Clark Spencer Larsen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781444320046
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Biological Anthropology written by Clark Spencer Larsen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive overview of the rapidly growing field of biologicalanthropology; chapters are written by leading scholars who havethemselves played a major role in shaping the direction and scopeof the discipline. Extensive overview of the rapidly growing field of biologicalanthropology Larsen has created a who’s who of biologicalanthropology, with contributions from the leadingauthorities in the field Contributing authors have played a major role in shaping thedirection and scope of the topics they write about Offers discussions of current issues, controversies, and futuredirections within the area Presents coverage of the many recent innovations anddiscoveries that are transforming the subject

Happenings and Hearsay

Author : Gabriel Ward Lasker
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814328408
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Happenings and Hearsay written by Gabriel Ward Lasker and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the founders of modern human biology and physical anthropology, Gabriel W. Lasker holds a well-established place in the history of science. In a classic article published in Science in 1969, Lasker advanced the idea of plasticity, the process of human adaptation to stressful environments by a series of modifications to the body during the course of physical growth and development. This concept was a factor that led the scientific community to give up its reliance on the notion of genetically fixed racial types. As he documents the rapidly changing field of anthropology and some of its leading figures, Lasker gives his readers a peek inside the lives of people who have defined what it means to be human -- and one of those people is himself.

New Perspectives and Problems in Anthropology

Author : Èva Bodzsár
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443811661
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives and Problems in Anthropology written by Èva Bodzsár and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 15th Congress of the European Anthropological Association, held under the title "MAN AND ENVIRONMENT: TRENDS AND CHALLENGES IN ANTHROPOLOGY", was organized by the Department of Biological Anthropology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. The Congress was also a celebration of the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Department of Biological Anthropology of the university. The Congress strived to encompass all aspects of physical anthropology pertinent to the understanding of human origins as well as the variability of ancient and present populations. The main topic was: Man and Environment in the Past and at Present – Trends and Challenges in Anthropology. At the beginning of the 21st century it seemed important to summarize what we had learned in the last hundred years in order to help our younger colleagues in physical anthropology in understanding the current trends and to provide them with suggestions for their future research. The present volume contains a collection of the selected papers presented in the congress. The first section discusses some aspects of the human evolution and adaptation and reflects on the race concept. The second section discusses some skeletal variations in different populations and the effects of isolation, migration and life-style on genetic structure of populations. The third session gives an overview of the current state of our knowledge about growth and ageing that may mould our general approach to human ecology. This book will be especially useful physical anthropologists, human biologists, human geneticist, medical and bio-demographical scientists interested in knowing more about human variability.

Physical (Biological) Anthropology

Author : P. Rudan
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
ISBN 13 : 1848262264
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book Physical (Biological) Anthropology written by P. Rudan and published by EOLSS Publications. This book was released on 2009-07-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physical (Biological) Anthropology theme is a component of Encyclopedia Of Biological, Physiological And Health Sciences (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. Biological anthropology, also known as physical anthropology, is a scientific discipline concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human beings, their related non-human primates and their extinct hominin ancestors. It is a subfield of anthropology that provides a biological perspective to the systematic study of human beings. This volume is aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers, NGOs and GOs.

Anthropology Today

Author : M. K. Bhasin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788185264455
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book Anthropology Today written by M. K. Bhasin and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 21st century Anthropology is under continuous pressure to redefine itself to explore sweeping biological and social transformations that are taking place in the society today. Anthropology over the years is recognized as the discipline that studies man in time and space. The focus of anthropological research is on human population(s) living in an ecological niche. Anthropology has traditionally followed a four fold division recognizing 1. Palaeo-anthropology/Pre-historic Archaeology2. Social/Cultural Anthropology3. Biological Anthropology4. Linguistic Anthropologyas distinct areas of specialization. However, over the years emphasis has shifted. The science of Man in society while conforming to the broad four fold division has over the years developed numerous sub-disciplines that cater to the challenges of comprehending impact of technology and rampant industrialization, global warming and biological interventions on mankind. Various new frontiers have opened in the last century that demands anthropological skills for intervention. The present volume is only an attempt to provide a glimpse to the readers of various methodological and functional modalities of the discipline on a broad platform.To pay befitting tribute to the subject of Anthropology, it will be perfectly in order to state that the discipline has the unique distinction of being a melting pot of all the basic and applied sciences - earth, -physical, -life, -medicine as well as - social and humanities. In the past contributions made by the fraternity has helped mankind pass many milestones. Its contributions to exploring complexities of human civilization are well acknowledged. This volume explores new frontiers that discipline with its advanced theoretical insights and methodological tools is examining. Review articles and other papers take a critical view of the past accomplishments and future possibilities. The volume is presented to you with the hope that it will become a ready reckoner for future researchers looking for new themes and research paradigms.

History of Physical Anthropology

Author : Frank Spencer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815304906
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book History of Physical Anthropology written by Frank Spencer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comparative study of humans as biological organisms, their evolution, and their physiological and anatomical functions and ecology of primates surveys the entire field and summarizes and organizes the basic knowledge, fundamental principles and development.

Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century

Author : Michael A. Little
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780739135112
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century written by Michael A. Little and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century chronicles the history of physical anthropology--or, as it is now known, biological anthropology--from its professional origins in the late 1800 up to its modern transformation in the late 1900s. In this edited volume, 13 contributors trace the development of people, ideas, traditions, and organizations that contributed to the advancement of this branch of anthropology that focuses today on human variation and human evolution. Designed for upper level undergraduate students, graduate students, and professional biological anthropologists, this book provides a brief and accessible history of the biobehavioral side of anthropology in America.

The Anthropology of North-East India

Author : Tanka Bahadur Subba
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788125023357
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book The Anthropology of North-East India written by Tanka Bahadur Subba and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been written to cater to the needs of undergraduate and postgraduate students of Anthropology and Sociology. It takes stock of the work done in the Anthropology of North-East India, and deals in four sections with various aspects of this question. Section I focuses on prehistoric Anthropology, section II looks at the colonial context and its effect on policy and perceptions about the North-East. Section III, on Biological Anthropology and section IV on Social Anthropology.

Building a New Biocultural Synthesis

Author : Alan H. Goodman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472022709
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Building a New Biocultural Synthesis written by Alan H. Goodman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropology, with its dual emphasis on biology and culture, is--or should be--the discipline most suited to the study of the complex interactions between these aspects of our lives. Unfortunately, since the early decades of this century, biological and cultural anthropology have grown distinct, and a holistic vision of anthropology has suffered. This book brings culture and biology back together in new and refreshing ways. Directly addressing earlier criticisms of biological anthropology, Building a New Biocultural Synthesis concerns how culture and political economy affect human biology--e.g., people's nutritional status, the spread of disease, exposure to pollution--and how biological consequences might then have further effects on cultural, social, and economic systems. Contributors to the volume offer case studies on health, nutrition, and violence among prehistoric and historical peoples in the Americas; theoretical chapters on nonracial approaches to human variation and the development of critical, humanistic and political ecological approaches in biocultural anthropology; and explorations of biological conditions in contemporary societies in relationship to global changes. Building a New Biocultural Synthesis will sharpen and enrich the relevance of anthropology for understanding a wide variety of struggles to cope with and combat persistent human suffering. It should appeal to all anthropologists and be of interest to sister disciplines such as nutrition and sociology. Alan H. Goodman is Professor of Anthropology, Hampshire College. Thomas L. Leatherman is Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of South Carolina.