Bioarchaeology
Subtitle: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9780521658348
Subjects: Archaeological methodology & techniques; Archaeological theory; Biological anthropology; Historiography; Science/Mathematics; Science; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Paleontology; Human remains (Archaeology); Science / Biology
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).