Bioarchaeology of East Asia :  Movement, Contact, Health / 
edited by Kate Pechenkina and Marc Oxenham ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen. 
 - Gainesville :  University Press of Florida,  (c)2013. 
 - 1 online resource 
 - Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local, regional, and global perspectives .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>1. Research on human skeletal biology in East Asia: a historical overview /  2. Human ecology in continental and insular East Asia /  Part 1: Biological indicators of population histories in East Asia --  3. The population history of China and Mongolia from the Bronze Age to the Medieval period (2500 BC-AD 1500) /  4. Mongolian origins and cranio-morphometric variability: Neolithic to Mongolian Period /  5. A nonmetric comparative study of past and contemporary Mongolian and Northeast Asian crania /  6. Tuberculosis and population movement across the Sea of Japan from the Neolithic Period to the Eneolithic /  7. Biological connections across the Sea of Japan: a multivariate comparison of ancient and more modern crania from Japan, China, Korea, and Southeast Asia /  8. Population dispersal from East Asia into Southeast Asia: evidence from cranial and dental morphology /  10. Stresses of life: a preliminary study of degenerative joint disease and dental health among ancient populations of Inner Asia /  11. Dental wear and oral health as indicators of diet among the early Qin People: a case study from the Xishan site, Gansu Province /  12. Yangshao oral health from West to East: effects of increasing complexity and contacts with neighbors /  13. Life on the frontier: the paleopathology of human remains from the Chinese Early Imperial Taojiazhai Mortuary site /  14. Bioarchaeological perspectives on systemic stress during the agricultural transition in prehistoric Japan /  15. Change in the linear growth of long bones with the adoption of wet-rice agriculture in Japan /  16. Trauma and infectious disease in Northern Japan: Okhotsk and Jomon /  17. A paleohealth assessment of the Shih-San-Hang site from Iron Age Taiwan /  18. Trajectories of health in early farming communities of East Asia /  19. East Asian bioarchaeology: major trends in a temporally, genetically, and eco-culturally diverse region /  Kate Pechenkina and Marc Oxenham --  Kate Pechenkina and Marc Oxenham --  Christine Lee --  Tumen Dashtseveg --  Erdene Myagmar --  Takao Suzuki --  Michael Pietrusewsky --  Hirofumi Matsumura and Marc Oxenham. Part II. Community health. 9. Conflict and trauma among nomadic pastoralists on China's northern frontier /  Jacqueline T. Eng and Zhang Quanchao --  Michelle L. Machicek and Jeremy J. Beach --  Wei Miao, Wang Tao, Zhao Congcang, Liu Wu, and Wang Changsui --  Kate Pechenkina, Ma Xiaolin, Fan Wenquan, Wei Dong, and Zhang Quanchao --  Zhang Jinglei --  Daniel H. Temple and Clark Spencer Larsen --  Kenji Okazaki --  Marc Oxenham, Hirofumi Matsumura, and Allison Drake --  Liu Chin-Hsin, John Krigbaum, Tsang Cheng-Hwa, and Liu Yi-Chang --  Kate Pechenkina, Ma Xiaolin, and Fan Wenquan --  Marc Oxenham and Kate Pechenkina. 
<br/><br/> Examines current understandings of human population histories, adaptations, dietary changes, and health variations within the geographical context of ancient east Asia. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813045016 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human remains (Archaeology)--East Asia.<br/>Excavations (Archaeology)--East Asia.<br/>Human skeleton--Analysis.<br/>Paleopathology--East Asia.<br/>Paleoanthropology--East Asia.<br/>Paleopathology--methods<br/>Anthropology, Physical--methods<br/>Human Migration--history<br/>Diet--history<br/>Health Status<br/>History, Ancient
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>CC79  / .B563 2013