Bioarchaeology
Subtitle: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 13, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 473
ISBN-13: 9780521496414
Subjects: Biological anthropology; Social Science; Medical Anthropology; Physical Anthropology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Paleontology; Anthropology - Physical; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Science / Biology; Anthropology - General; Analysis; Human remains (Archaeology); Human skeleton
First sentence: Physiological disruption resulting from impoverished environmental circumstances - 'stress' - is central to the study of health and well-being and the reconstruction of adaptation and behavior in earlier and contemporary human societies (Goodman et al., 1988; Huss-Ashmore et al., 1982).