Reading the bones : activity, biology, and culture / Elizabeth Weiss.

By: Weiss, Elizabeth [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2017]Copyright date: 2017Description: 1 online resource (205 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813052052Subject(s): Human remains (Archaeology) | Human biology | Human skeleton -- AnalysisGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reading the bones : activity, biology, and culture.DDC classification: 930.1 LOC classification: CC79.5.H85 | W445 2017Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Bone biology -- Cross-sectional geometries -- Entheseal changes -- Osteoarthritis -- Stress fractures -- Activity indicator facets -- Conclusions.
Scope and content: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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