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Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past : local, regional, and global perspectives

Osteobiography and Bioarchaeology / Ann L. W. Stodder and Ann M. Palkovich

Part 1. Ancestors and Descendants

The Magician : An Ancestral Hopi Leader / Jill E. Neitzel

The Axed Man of Mosfell : Skeletal Evidence of a Viking Age Homicide, the Icelandic Sagas, and Feud / Phillip L. Walker, Jesse Byock, Jacqueline T. Eng, Jon M. Erlandson, Per Holck, Henry Schwarcz, and Davide Zori

Legendary Chamorro Strength : Skeletal Embodiment and the Boundaries of Interpretation / Gary M. Heathcote, Vincent P. Diego, Hajime Ishida, and Vincent J. Sava

Mortuary Evidence for Maya Political Resistance and Religious Syncretism in Colonial Belize / Gabriel D. Wrobel

Part 2. Ancient Travelers and "Others"

Social Marginalization among the Chiribaya : The Curandero of Yaral, Southern Peru / Maria Cecilia Lozada, Kelly J. Knudson, Rex C. Haydon, and Jane E. Buikstra

A Neolithic Nomad from Dakhleh Oasis / Jennifer L. Thompson

Lesley : A Unique Bronze Age Individual from Southeastern Arabia / Debra L. Martin and Daniel T. Potts

The "African Queen" : A Portuguese Mystery / Mary Lucas Powell, Della Collins Cook, Maia M. Langley, Susan Dale Spencer, Jennifer Raff, and Frederika Kaestle

Part 3. Craftsmen and Artisans

Sew Long? The Osteobiography of a Woman from Medieval Polis, Cyprus / Brenda J. Baker, Claire E. Terhune, and Amy Papalexandrou

A Master Artisan? Tribute to the Founder of a Teotihuacan Apartment Compound / Rebecca Storey and Randolph J. Widmer

Vulcan : Skilled Village Craftsman of Ban Chiang, Thailand / Michele Toomay Douglas and Michael Pietrusewsky

Written in Stone, Written in Bone : The Osteobiography of a Bronze Age Craftsman from Alalakh / Alexis T. Boutin

Part 4. Farm and Village

Life and Death of a Mother and Child in Nineteenth-Century Ontario, Canada / M. Anne Katzenberg and Shelley R. Saunders

Thumbprints of a Midwife : Birth and Infant Death in an Ancient Pueblo Community / Charles F. Merbs

Reading a Life : A Fourteenth-Century Ancestral Puebloan Woman / Ann M. Palkovich

From Cradle to Grave and Beyond : A Maya Life and Death / Pamela L. Geller.

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Bones > Social aspects > History.

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