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Now including numerous full colour figures, this updated and revised edition of Larsen's classic text provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of bioarchaeology. Reflecting the enormous advances made in the field over the past twenty years, the author examines how this discipline has matured and evolved in fundamental ways. Jargon free and richly illustrated, the text is accompanied by copious case studies and references to underscore the central role that human remains play in the interpretation of life events and conditions of past and modern cultures. From the origins and spread of infectious disease to the consequences of decisions made by humans with regard to the kinds of foods produced, and their nutritional, health and behavioral outcomes. With local, regional, and global perspectives, this up-to-date text provides a solid foundation for all those working in the field.

Human remains (Archaeology) --- Human skeleton --- Analysis. --- Anthropology, Physical. --- Archaeology. --- Bone and Bones. --- Human remains (Archaeology). --- Mänskliga kvarlevor. --- Osteologi. --- Paleopalynologi. --- Paleopathology. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Anthropology --- Physical. --- Human anatomy --- Skeleton --- Bioarchaeology --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Primate remains (Archaeology)

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This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to, and explanation of, the theory and practice of the ‘bioarchaeology of care’, an original, fully theorised and contextualised case study-based approach designed to identify and interpret cases of care provision in prehistory.  The applied methodology comprises four stages of analysis, each building on the content of the preceding one(s), which provide the framework for this process.  Theory and Practice in the Bioarchaeology of Care is the primary source of information on this new approach and serves as a manual for its implementation. It elaborates the foundations on which the bioarchaeology of care is constructed; it leads the reader through the methodology; and it provides three detailed examples of prehistoric caregiving which illustrate how bioarchaeology of care analysis has the capacity to reveal aspects of past group and individual identity and lifeways which might otherwise have remained unknown. .

Social Sciences. --- Archaeology. --- Anthropology. --- Social sciences. --- Sciences sociales --- Anthropologie --- Archéologie --- Archaeology --- History & Archaeology --- Ethnoarchaeology. --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- People with disabilities --- Care. --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Ethnic archaeology --- Ethnicity in archaeology --- Ethnology in archaeology --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Ethnology --- Social archaeology --- Methodology --- Human beings --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences

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Children, Prehistoric. --- Children --- Infants --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Social archaeology. --- Household archaeology. --- Enfants préhistoriques --- Enfants --- Nourrissons --- Restes humains (Archéologie) --- Archéologie sociale --- Archéologie de la maison --- History. --- History --- Histoire --- Prehistoric children --- Prehistoric peoples --- Social archaeology --- Archaeology --- Bioarchaeology --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Babies --- Infancy --- Methodology

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Weaver explores the mortuary practices, health and disease, and even the magical beliefs of classical Kamarina using a comparative approach to analyze grave goods and burial positions.

Tombs --- Death --- Burial --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Burial customs --- Burying-grounds --- Graves --- Interment --- Archaeology --- Public health --- Coffins --- Dead --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Grave digging --- Bioarchaeology --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Ancient funeral rites and ceremonies --- Philosophy --- Camarina (Extinct city) --- Camarina (Ancient city) --- Italy --- Social life and customs. --- Antiquities --- Funérailles --- Restes humains (Archéologie) --- Sépulture --- Mort --- Tombes --- Rites et cérémonies --- Histoire --- Camarina (Ville ancienne) --- Social life and customs --- Moeurs et coutumes

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This book presents the results of a unique macroscopic and radiological analysis, by X-ray and CT scan, of the bone pathologies of about 1800 subjects who lived at the time of the Roman Empire (first and second centuries A.D.) and whose remains were recovered during the excavation of a suburban necropolis of Rome. The survey, which represents a collaboration between the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology and the Special Superintendent for the Archaeological Heritage of Rome, has yielded incredible images of different orthopaedic diseases in a period when no surgical treatment was available: there are cases of infection (osteomyelitis), metabolic disease (gout), hematologic disease (multiple myeloma), traumatic lesions and their complications, and degenerative pathology (osteoarthritis, particularly secondary and overload). A multidisciplinary team including orthopaedists, paleopathologists, radiologists, and medical historians has evaluated the major groups of bone disease in the population finding out incredible cases and picture of ortho-traumatologic pathologies in a pre-surgical era. The homogeneity of the sample and the number of subjects make this a study of fundamental importance. .

Surgery - General and By Type --- Surgery & Anesthesiology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Paleopathology. --- Bones --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Musculoskeletal Diseases --- Fractures, Bone --- Paleopathology --- History, Ancient. --- Ancient History (Medicine) --- Ancient History of Medicine --- History of Medicine, Ancient --- Medicine, Ancient History --- Ancient History --- Ancient Histories (Medicine) --- Ancient History Medicine --- Ancient History Medicines --- Histories, Ancient (Medicine) --- History Medicine, Ancient --- History Medicines, Ancient --- History, Ancient (Medicine) --- Medicine Ancient History --- Medicines, Ancient History --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Osteology --- Imaging. --- history. --- pathology. --- methods. --- Rome --- Rome. --- History --- Medicine. --- Paleontology. --- Radiology. --- Orthopedics. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Imaging / Radiology. --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Musculoskeletal system --- Bone --- Skeleton --- Medical archaeology --- Pathology --- Radiology, Medical. --- Paleontology . --- Orthopaedics --- Orthopedia --- Surgery --- Clinical radiology --- Radiology, Medical --- Radiology (Medicine) --- Medical physics --- Fossilogy --- Fossilology --- Palaeontology --- Paleontology, Zoological --- Paleozoology --- Historical geology --- Zoology --- Fossils --- Prehistoric animals in motion pictures --- Bioarchaeology --- Radiological physics --- Physics --- Radiation --- History, Ancient --- Imaging --- history --- pathology --- methods