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1 online resource (230 pages)
ISBN:
9780128238813
Inhalt:
Intro -- Osteobiographies: The Discovery, Interpretation and Repatriation of Human Remains -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Osteobiography: A way to see past lives -- What is a bioarchaeologist? -- What is an osteobiography? -- The osteological paradox -- Osteobiographies in sociopolitical context -- The tools of the trade -- The science side -- The humanities side -- Terms, labels and designations -- References -- Chapter 2 Rest in peace -- Prospect Hill -- Historical evidence -- Biological evidence -- Synopsis -- Snake Hill -- The excavation -- Linking the bones with history -- Historic graves in broader context -- References -- Chapter 3 Framework for Osteobiographies: Lower Great Lakes -- Prologue -- History's story line -- Archaeology's story line -- When group members died -- The contemporary context -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 4 Mobile people making a go of it -- Prologue -- So little to go on -- The Hind Site -- A child's distinctive skeleton -- Looking back at the Hind Site -- References -- Chapter 5 We enter the afterlife together -- Prologue -- Background to the story -- The excavation of ossuaries -- Ossuary osteobiographies -- Evidence of a disease that wasn't supposed to be there -- Ossuary communities: Collective osteobiographies -- Dietary isotopes -- Environmental isotopes -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 6 Collaboration and repatriation -- Prologue -- Construction of a collaborative framework -- Preliminary steps -- Meanwhile, other developments -- Preparing for repatriation -- Identify the locus of leadership -- Document pragmatically -- Call in the loans -- Build a vocabulary -- Show good faith -- Prepare the ancestors for their next journey -- Repatriation and after -- Things to not do -- References.
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ISBN 9780128238806
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Pfeiffer, Susan, 1947 - Osteobiographies London, United Kingdom : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, 2022 ISBN 0128238801
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780128238806
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Anthropologie
;
Skelett
;
Knochen
;
Paläopathologie
;
DNS
;
Archäobiologie
;
Vor- und Frühgeschichte
;
Archäologie
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