Isbn: 9781407301563 - proceedings of the seventh annual conference of the british association for biological anthropology and osteoarchaeology (british archaeological reports british series, band 1712) (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. iii, 110 pages : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 30 cm. This book includes papers from the seventh annual conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO), held at the Museum of London in 2005. CONTENTS : Introduction / William White & Sonia R. Zakrzewski -- An overview of human osteology at the Museum of London / William White -- Cracking the code: biography and (reconstructed) stratigraphy at St Pancras burial ground / Phillip Emery -- Recent investigations in the 'Southern Cemetery' of Roman Southwark / Melissa Melikian and Kathelen Sayer -- The funerary behaviour and the social value of children in a proto-industrial urban population during the 18th and 19th centuries / S.M. Bello and L.T. Humphrey -- The 'French Disease': syphilis and the burial ground of St Pancras / Natasha Powers and Phillip Emery -- Industrial accident or deliberate amputation? Three case studies from a Victorian population in Wolverhampton, West Midlands / Paula Ponce, Iraia Arabaolaza and Anthea Boylston -- Unusual neck pathology in a Nevisian prehistoric individual / Sonia R. Zakrzewski and Elaine L. Morris -- The search for Rosa Pike: congenital syphilis in 1880's London / Roshni Patel and Piers D. Mitchell -- Burial rites, death and disease in the late Gallinazo/Moche Period / Richard N.R. Mikulski -- Overweight and the human skeleton / Philippa Patrick -- A new method for recording tooth wear / Anna Clement -- Intra-community variation in uptake of a new stable crop in the eastern woodlands of North America / Fionnuala Rose -- The stressful revolution: a rise in fluctuating asymmetry from Medieval England to Victorian England / Rebecca A. Storm -- Radiography in palaeopathology: where next? / Jo Buckberry and Sonia O'Connor.…