Reading the bones : activity, biology, and culture /
Weiss, Elizabeth,
Reading the bones : activity, biology, and culture / Elizabeth Weiss. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (xix, 183 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Bone biology -- Cross-sectional geometries -- Entheseal changes -- Osteoarthritis -- Stress fractures -- Activity indicator facets -- Conclusions.
In this textbook designed for upper level physical anthropology/forensic anthropology courses, Weiss explains the complex relationship between biology and activity. While activity markers sometimes show aspects of lifestyle, social change, and daily prehistoric life, this text will help future researchers to be more critical of their social reconstructions by using the same comparisons of biology versus environment that are found in social anthropology courses.
9780813052052
Human remains (Archaeology)
Human biology.
Human skeleton--Analysis.
Electronic Books.
CC79 / .R433 2017
Reading the bones : activity, biology, and culture / Elizabeth Weiss. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (xix, 183 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Bone biology -- Cross-sectional geometries -- Entheseal changes -- Osteoarthritis -- Stress fractures -- Activity indicator facets -- Conclusions.
In this textbook designed for upper level physical anthropology/forensic anthropology courses, Weiss explains the complex relationship between biology and activity. While activity markers sometimes show aspects of lifestyle, social change, and daily prehistoric life, this text will help future researchers to be more critical of their social reconstructions by using the same comparisons of biology versus environment that are found in social anthropology courses.
9780813052052
Human remains (Archaeology)
Human biology.
Human skeleton--Analysis.
Electronic Books.
CC79 / .R433 2017