Ancient Health: Skeletal Indicators of Agricultural and Economic Intensification
Mark N. Cohen, Gillian M. M. Crane-Kramer
Twenty years ago Mark Nathan Cohen coedited a collection of essays that set a new standard in using paleopathology to identify trends in health associated with changes in prehistoric technology, economy, demography, and political centralization. Ancient Health expands and celebrates that work. Confirming earlier conclusions that human health declined after the adoption of farming and the rise of civilization, this book greatly enlarges the geographical range of paleopathological studies by including new work from both established and up-and-coming scholars. Moving beyond the western hemisphere and western Eurasia, this collection involves studies from Chile, Peru, Mexico, the United States, Denmark, Britain, Portugal, South Africa, Israel, India, Vietnam, Thailand, China, and Mongolia. Adding great significance to this volume, the author discusses and successfully rebuts the arguments of the "osteological paradox" that long have challenged work in the area of quantitative paleopathology, demonstrating that the "paradox" has far less meaning than its proponents argue.
درجه (قاطیغوری(:
کال:
2007
خپرونه:
1st
خپرندویه اداره:
University Press of Florida
ژبه:
english
صفحه:
464
ISBN 10:
081303082X
ISBN 13:
9780813030821
لړ (سلسله):
Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global
فایل:
PDF, 7.85 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2007