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Bodies of Evidence Anne L. Grauer

Bodies of Evidence By Anne L. Grauer

Bodies of Evidence by Anne L. Grauer

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This volume highlights advances made in palaeopathology and demography through the analyses of historic cemeteries. These advances include associating documentary evidence with skeletal evaluations, and the application of new evaluative techniques.

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Bodies of Evidence: Reconstructing History through Skeletal Analysis by Anne L. Grauer

This volume highlights advances made in palaeopathology and demography through the analyses of historic cemeteries. These advances include associating documentary evidence with skeletal evaluations, the use of skeletal analyses when no documentary evidence exists, and applications of new evaluative techniques.

About Anne L. Grauer

Anne L. Grauer received her Ph.D. in biological anthropology from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Her research interests include paleopathology (the study of ancient human disease) and paleodemography (the study of ancient human mortality, fertility, and migration patterns). In particular, Dr. Grauer's research interests focus on the lives of women and the impact that sex and gender have on morbidity and mortality.

Table of Contents

PART I: ISSUES AND CONSIDERATIONS: Politics, Law, Pragmatics, and Human Burial Excavations: An Example from Northern California; Descendent Community Partnering in the Archaeological and Bioanthropological Investigation of African-American Skeletal Populations: Two Interrelated Case Studies from Philadelphia; Historic Cemetery Analysis: Practical Considerations; Taphonomic Processes in Historic Cemeteries; PART II: THE ASSESSMENT OF DEMOGRAPHIC PATTERNS: Can Skeletal Samples Accurately Represent the Living Population They Come From?; A Piece of Chicago's Past: Exploring Subadult Mortality in the Dunning Poorhouse Cemetery; Bones in the Basement: Bioarchaeology of Historic Remains in Non-Mortuary Contexts; An Assessment of Health and Mortality of Nineteenth Century Rochester, New York, Using Historic Records and the Highland Park Skeletal Collection; PART III: RECONSTRUCTING PATTERNS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE: Cross Homestead: Life and Death on the Midwestern Frontier.

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CIN047104279XG
9780471042792
047104279X
Bodies of Evidence: Reconstructing History through Skeletal Analysis by Anne L. Grauer
Anne L. Grauer
Used - Good
Paperback
John Wiley & Sons Inc
1995-05-25
256
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