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This volume centers on the application of social theory to commingled remains with special focus on the cultural processes that create the assemblages as a way to better understand issues of meaning, social structure and interaction, and lived experience in the past. The importance of the application of theoretical frameworks to bioarchaeology in general has been recognized, but commingled and fragmentary assemblages require an increased theoretical focus. Too often these assemblages are still relegated to appendices; they are analytical puzzles that need the interpretive power offered by social theory. Theoretical Approaches to Analysis and Interpretation of Commingled Human Remains provides case studies that illustrate how an appropriate theoretical model can be used with commingled and fragmentary remains to add to overall site and population level interpretations of past and present peoples. Specifically, the contributions show a blending and melding of different social theories, highlighting the broad interpretive power of social theory. Contributors are drawn from both the Old and New World. Temporally, time periods from the Neolithic to historic periods are present, further widening the audience for the volume.

Social sciences. --- Archaeology. --- Social Sciences. --- Forensic anthropology. --- Forensic archaeology. --- Forensic bioarchaeology --- Anthropology, Forensic --- Medicolegal anthropology --- Archaeology --- Forensic sciences --- Physical anthropology --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities

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This volume presents a sophisticated set of archival, forensic, and excavation methods to identify both individuals and group affiliations-cultural, religious, and organizational-in a multi-ethnic historical cemetery. Based on an extensive excavation project of more than 1,000 nineteenth-century burials in downtown Tucson, Arizona, the team of historians, archaeologists, biological anthropologists, and community researchers created an effective methodology for use at other historical-period sites. Comparisons made with other excavated cemeteries strengthens the power of this toolkit for

Human remains (Archaeology) --- Demographic archaeology --- Ethnoarchaeology --- Cemeteries --- Forensic anthropology --- Forensic archaeology --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnic identities --- Ethnic nations (Ethnic groups) --- Groups, Ethnic --- Kindred groups (Ethnic groups) --- Nationalities (Ethnic groups) --- Peoples (Ethnic groups) --- Ethnology --- Forensic bioarchaeology --- Archaeology --- Forensic sciences --- Anthropology, Forensic --- Medicolegal anthropology --- Physical anthropology --- Burial grounds --- Burying-grounds --- Churchyards --- Graves --- Graveyards --- Memorial gardens (Cemeteries) --- Memorial parks (Cemeteries) --- Memory gardens (Cemeteries) --- Necropoleis --- Necropoles --- Necropoli --- Necropolises --- Burial --- Death care industry --- Ethnic archaeology --- Ethnicity in archaeology --- Ethnology in archaeology --- Social archaeology --- Demographic anthropology --- Bioarchaeology --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- History. --- Methodology --- Tucson (Ariz.) --- City of Tucson (Ariz.) --- Antiquities. --- Restes humains (Archéologie) --- Paléodémographie --- Ethnoarchéologie --- Cimetières --- Groupes ethniques --- Histoire --- Antiquités --- Forensic Anthropology --- Tuscon (Arizona) --- Antiquities --- Anthropology --- Human remains (Archaeology) - Arizona - Tucson --- Ethnoarchaeology - America --- Cemeteries - Arizona - Tucson - History --- Ethnic groups - America --- Tuscon (Arizona) - Antiquities