Format:
1 online resource (535 pages)
ISBN:
9780813045016
Series Statement:
Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Ser
Content:
Interprets human skeletal collections from a region where millets, rice, and several other important cereals were cultivated, leading to attendant forms of agricultural development that were accompanied by significant technological innovations. The contributors follow the diffusion of these advanced ideas to other parts of Asia, and unravel a maze of population movements. In addition, they explore the biological implications of relatively rare subsistence strategies more or less unique to East Asia: millet agriculture, mobile pastoralism with limited cereal farming, and rice farming combined with reliance on marine resources.
Content:
Cover -- Bioarchaeology of East Asia -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Research on Human Skeletal Biology in East Asia: A Historical Overview -- 2. Human Ecology in Continental and Insular East Asia -- Part I. 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 -- Part II. Community Health -- 9. Conflict and Trauma among Nomadic Pastoralists on China's Northern Frontier -- 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.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813044279
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780813044279
Language:
English
Keywords:
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