Skeletal biology and bioarchaeology of the Northwestern Plains
By: edited by George W. Gill and Rick L. Weathermon ; foreword by William M. Bass.
Contributors: Gill, George W.; Weathermon, Rick L., 1952-
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780874809282
Subjects: Human remains (Archaeology) -- Northwestern States; Human remains (Archaeology) -- Great Plains; Burial -- Northwestern States -- History; Burial -- Great Plains -- History; Ethnoarchaeology -- Northwestern States; Ethnoarchaeology -- Great Plains; Northwestern States -- Antiquities; Great Plains -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / William M. Bass; title: Prologue: New perspectives on Northwestern Plains skeletal biology and bioarchaeology / Douglas H. Ubelaker; title: Introduction: An overview of the region / George W. Gill; title: Before bioarchaeology : early day records of human burials on the Northwestern Plains / George C. Frison; title: Life and death on the Northwestern Plains : mortuary practices and cultural transformations / Laura L. Scheiber; title: History and development of the human remains repository at the University of Wyoming / Rick L. Weathermon and Mark E. Miller; title: An introduction to the archaeology and human osteology of the Benick Ranch Site (48AB571) / Don P. Davis and Mark E. Miller; title: The Korell-Bordeaux Site : a rare Native American Cemetery in frontier Wyoming / Thomas A. Furgeson and Anne K. Armstrong; title: Late-nineteenth-century Crow mummies from Montana / Douglas W. Owsley, Karin S. Bruwelheide, and Laurie E. Burgess; title: Historic Chinese burials from southwestern Wyoming / Rennie Phillips Polidora; title: Those left behind : an analysis of western pioneer-era burials / Rick L. Weathermon; title: Military burials at Cantonment, Missouri, 1819-1820, and Fort Atkinson, 1820-1827, Nebraska / Karin S. Bruwelheide, Douglas W. Owsley, and Gayle F. Carlson; title: A bioarchaeological and historical analysis of an Indian Wars : era casualty from Platte Bridge Station, Dakota Territory / Rick L. Weathermon; title: Northwestern Plains Indian skeletal remains : metric analysis / L. Jaimeson Stuart and George W. Gill; title: An analysis of discrete cranial traits of Northwestern Plains Indians / Martha Rogers; title: Disease and injury among Northwestern Plains Indians / Maxine J. Miller; title: Cranial trauma in historic period Central and Northern Plains Indians / Douglas W. Owsley and Karin S. Bruwelheide; title: Prehistoric and early historic subsistence patterns and dental pathology of the northern Great Plains / Jennifer Orlesh Zitt; title: Sexual dimorphism in femoral and humeral head diameters of Northwestern Plains Indians and Whites / Kierstin K. Catlett; title: Northwestern Plains archaic skeletons with Paleoamerican characteristics / George W. Gill; title: Temporal changes in nasal sill development within the Northwestern Plains region / George W. Gill and Cresta Valentine Deeds; title: Temporal and geographic variation in vault height in the Great Plains, Great Basin, and Northwestern Plains / Richard l. Jantz.