TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pechenkina,Ekaterina A.
AU  - Oxenham,Marc
AU  - Larsen,Clark Spencer
AU  - 
TI  - Bioarchaeology of East Asia: Movement, Contact, Health 
T2  - Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local, regional, and global perspectives
SN  - 9780813045016
AV  - CC79 .B563 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Gainesville
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - Human remains (Archaeology)
KW  - East Asia
KW  - Excavations (Archaeology)
KW  - Human skeleton
KW  - Analysis
KW  - Paleopathology
KW  - Paleoanthropology
KW  - methods
KW  - Anthropology, Physical
KW  - Human Migration
KW  - history
KW  - Diet
KW  - Health Status
KW  - History, Ancient
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 1. Research on human skeletal biology in East Asia: a historical overview; Kate Pechenkina and Marc Oxenham --; 2. Human ecology in continental and insular East Asia; Kate Pechenkina and Marc Oxenham --; 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); Christine Lee --; 4. Mongolian origins and cranio-morphometric variability: Neolithic to Mongolian Period; Tumen Dashtseveg --; 5. A nonmetric comparative study of past and contemporary Mongolian and Northeast Asian crania; Erdene Myagmar --; 6. Tuberculosis and population movement across the Sea of Japan from the Neolithic Period to the Eneolithic; Takao Suzuki --; 7. Biological connections across the Sea of Japan: a multivariate comparison of ancient and more modern crania from Japan, China, Korea, and Southeast Asia; Michael Pietrusewsky --; 8. Population dispersal from East Asia into Southeast Asia: evidence from cranial and dental morphology; 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 --; 10. Stresses of life: a preliminary study of degenerative joint disease and dental health among ancient populations of Inner Asia; Michelle L. Machicek and Jeremy J. Beach --; 11. Dental wear and oral health as indicators of diet among the early Qin People: a case study from the Xishan site, Gansu Province; Wei Miao, Wang Tao, Zhao Congcang, Liu Wu, and Wang Changsui --; 12. Yangshao oral health from West to East: effects of increasing complexity and contacts with neighbors; Kate Pechenkina, Ma Xiaolin, Fan Wenquan, Wei Dong, and Zhang Quanchao --; 13. Life on the frontier: the paleopathology of human remains from the Chinese Early Imperial Taojiazhai Mortuary site; Zhang Jinglei --; 14. Bioarchaeological perspectives on systemic stress during the agricultural transition in prehistoric Japan; Daniel H. Temple and Clark Spencer Larsen --; 15. Change in the linear growth of long bones with the adoption of wet-rice agriculture in Japan; Kenji Okazaki --; 16. Trauma and infectious disease in Northern Japan: Okhotsk and Jomon; Marc Oxenham, Hirofumi Matsumura, and Allison Drake --; 17. A paleohealth assessment of the Shih-San-Hang site from Iron Age Taiwan; Liu Chin-Hsin, John Krigbaum, Tsang Cheng-Hwa, and Liu Yi-Chang --; 18. Trajectories of health in early farming communities of East Asia; Kate Pechenkina, Ma Xiaolin, and Fan Wenquan --; 19. East Asian bioarchaeology: major trends in a temporally, genetically, and eco-culturally diverse region; Marc Oxenham and Kate Pechenkina; 2; b
N2  - 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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