Bioarchaeology Of East Asia

Author : Kate Pechenkina,Marc Oxenham
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813045016

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Bioarchaeology of East Asia by Kate Pechenkina,Marc Oxenham Pdf

Interprets human skeletal collections from a region where millets, rice, and several other important cereals were cultivated, leading to attendant forms of agricultural development that were accompanied by significant technological innovations. The contributors follow the diffusion of these advanced ideas to other parts of Asia, and unravel a maze of population movements. In addition, they explore the biological implications of relatively rare subsistence strategies more or less unique to East Asia: millet agriculture, mobile pastoralism with limited cereal farming, and rice farming combined with reliance on marine resources.

Author : Marc Oxenham,Nancy Tayles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521825801

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Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia by Marc Oxenham,Nancy Tayles Pdf

Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia focuses uniquely on the physical remains of the prehistoric peoples of this region.

Author : Marc Oxenham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : East Asia
ISBN : 0813046262

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Bioarchaeology of East Asia by Marc Oxenham Pdf

Examines current understandings of human population histories, adaptations, dietary changes, and health variations within the geographical context of ancient east Asia.

Author : Yaowu Hu,Minoru Yoneda,Kyungcheol Choy
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832542972

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Bioarchaeology in East Asia by Yaowu Hu,Minoru Yoneda,Kyungcheol Choy Pdf

Author : Marc Oxenham,Hallie Buckley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317534013

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The Routledge Handbook of Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands by Marc Oxenham,Hallie Buckley Pdf

In recent years the bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia and the Pacific islands has seen enormous progress. This new and exciting research is synthesised, contextualised and expanded upon in The Routledge Handbook of Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. The volume is divided into two broad sections, one dealing with mainland and island Southeast Asia, and a second section dealing with the Pacific islands. A multi-scalar approach is employed to the bio-social dimensions of Southeast Asia and the Pacific islands with contributions alternating between region and/or site specific scales of operation to the individual or personal scale. The more personal level of osteobiographies enriches the understanding of the lived experience in past communities. Including a number of contributions from sub-disciplinary approaches tangential to bioarchaeology the book provides a broad theoretical and methodological approach. Providing new information on the globally relevant topics of farming, population mobility, subsistence and health, no other volume provides such a range of coverage on these important themes.

Author : Gina L. Barnes
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785700736

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Archaeology of East Asia by Gina L. Barnes Pdf

Archaeology of East Asia constitutes an introduction to social and political development from the Palaeolithic to 8th-century early historic times. It takes a regional view across China, Korea, Japan and their peripheries that is unbounded by modern state lines. This viewpoint emphasizes how the region drew on indigenous developments and exterior stimuli to produce agricultural technologies, craft production, political systems, religious outlooks and philosophies that characterize the civilization of historic and even modern East Asia. This book is a complete rewrite and update of The Rise of Civilization in East Asia, first published in 1993. It incorporates the many theoretical, technical and factual advances of the last two decades, including DNA, gender, and isotope studies, AMS radiocarbon dating and extensive excavation results. Readers of that first edition will find the same structure and topic progression. While many line drawings have been retained, new color illustrations abound. Boxes and Appendices clarify and add to the understanding of unfamiliar technologies. For those seeking more detail, the Appendices also provide case studies that take intimate looks at particular data and current research. The book is suitable for general readers, East Asian historians and students, archaeology students and professionals. Praise for The Rise of Civilization in East Asia: “… the best English introduction to the archaeology of East Asia … brilliantly integrates the three areas into a broad regional context.” Prof. Mark Hudson

Author : Rowan Flad,Anke Hein,Bryan K. Miller
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781950446414

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Ritual and Economy in East Asia by Rowan Flad,Anke Hein,Bryan K. Miller Pdf

In commemoration of Lothar von Falkenhausens 60th birthday, this volume assembles eighteen scholarly essays that explore the intersection between art, economy, and ritual in ancient East Asia. The contributions are clustered into four themes: Ritual Economy, Ritual and Sacrifice, Technology, Community, Interaction, and Objects and Meaning, which collectively reflect the theoretical, methodological, and historical questions that Falkenhausen has been examining via his scholarship, research, and teaching throughout his career. Most of the chapters work with archaeological and textual data from China, but there are also studies of materials from Mongolia, Korea, Southeast Asia and even Egypt, showing the global impact of Falkenhausens work. The chronological range of studies extends from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age in China, into the early imperial, medieval, and early modern periods. The authors discuss art, economy, ritual, interaction, and technology in the broad context of East Asian archaeology and its connection to the world beyond.

Author : Roger Blench,Laurent Sagart,Alicia Sanchez-Mazas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134353125

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The Peopling of East Asia by Roger Blench,Laurent Sagart,Alicia Sanchez-Mazas Pdf

One of the most dynamic research areas in the prehistory of East Asian regions is the synthesis of the findings of archaeology, linguistics and genetics. Several countries have only recently opened to field research and highly active local groups have made possible a raft of collaborative studies that would have been impossible even a decade ago. This book presents an overview of the most recent findings in all these fields. It will be of great interest to scholars of all disciplines working on the reconstruction of the East Asian past.

Author : Junko Habu,Peter V. Lape,John W. Olsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 771 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781493965212

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Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology by Junko Habu,Peter V. Lape,John W. Olsen Pdf

The Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology focuses on the material culture and lifeways of the peoples of prehistoric and early historic East and Southeast Asia; their origins, behavior and identities as well as their biological, linguistic and cultural differences and commonalities. Emphasis is placed upon the interpretation of material culture to illuminate and explain social processes and relationships as well as behavior, technology, patterns and mechanisms of long-term change and chronology, in addition to the intellectual history of archaeology as a discipline in this diverse region. The Handbook augments archaeologically-focused chapters contributed by regional scholars by providing histories of research and intellectual traditions, and by maintaining a broadly comparative perspective. Archaeologically-derived data are emphasized with text-based documentary information, provided to complement interpretations of material culture. The Handbook is not restricted to art historical or purely descriptive perspectives; its geographical coverage includes the modern nation-states of China, Mongolia, Far Eastern Russia, North and South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and East Timor.

Author : Clark Spencer Larsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521838696

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Bioarchaeology by Clark Spencer Larsen Pdf

A synthetic treatment of the study of human remains from archaeological contexts for current and future generations of bioarchaeologists.

Author : Gwen Robbins Schug
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813059938

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Bioarchaeology and Climate Change by Gwen Robbins Schug Pdf

"Using subadult skeletons from the Deccan Chalcolithic period of Indian prehistory, along with archaeological and paleoclimate data, this volume makes an important contribution to understanding the effects of ecological change on demography and childhood growth during the second millennium B.C. in peninsular India."--Michael Pietrusewsky, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa In the context of current debates about global warming, archaeology contributes important insights for understanding environmental changes in prehistory, and the consequences and responses of past populations to them. In Indian archaeology, climate change and monsoon variability are often invoked to explain major demographic transitions, cultural changes, and migrations of prehistoric populations. During the late Holocene (1400-700 B.C.), agricultural communities flourished in a semiarid region of the Indian subcontinent, until they precipitously collapsed. Gwen Robbins Schug integrates the most recent paleoclimate reconstructions with an innovative analysis of skeletal remains from one of the last abandoned villages to provide a new interpretation of the archaeological record of this period. Robbins Schug’s biocultural synthesis provides us with a new way of looking at the adaptive, social, and cultural transformations that took place in this region during the first and second millennia B.C. Her work clearly and compellingly usurps the climate change paradigm, demonstrating the complexity of human-environmental transformations. This original and significant contribution to bioarchaeological research and methodology enriches our understanding of both global climate change and South Asian prehistory.

Author : Philip J. Piper,Hirofumi Matsumura,David Bulbeck
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781760460952

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New Perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific Prehistory by Philip J. Piper,Hirofumi Matsumura,David Bulbeck Pdf

‘This volume brings together a diversity of international scholars, unified in the theme of expanding scientific knowledge about humanity’s past in the Asia-Pacific region. The contents in total encompass a deep time range, concerning the origins and dispersals of anatomically modern humans, the lifestyles of Pleistocene and early Holocene Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers, the emergence of Neolithic farming communities, and the development of Iron Age societies. These core enduring issues continue to be explored throughout the vast region covered here, accordingly with a richness of results as shown by the authors. Befitting of the grand scope of this volume, the individual contributions articulate perspectives from multiple study areas and lines of evidence. Many of the chapters showcase new primary field data from archaeological sites in Southeast Asia. Equally important, other chapters provide updated regional summaries of research in archaeology, linguistics, and human biology from East Asia through to the Western Pacific.’ Mike T. Carson Associate Professor of Archaeology Micronesian Area Research Center University of Guam

Author : Kelly J. Knudson,Christopher M. Stojanowski
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683401803

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Bioarchaeology and Identity Revisited by Kelly J. Knudson,Christopher M. Stojanowski Pdf

Choice Outstanding Academic Title This volume highlights new directions in the study of social identities in past populations. Building on the field-defining research in Bioarchaeology and Identity in the Americas, contributors expand the scope of the subject regionally, theoretically, and methodologically. This collection moves beyond the previous focus on single aspects of identity by demonstrating multi-scalar approaches and by explicitly addressing intersectionality in the archaeological record. Case studies in this volume come from both New World and Old World settings, including sites in North America, South America, Asia, and the Middle East. The communities investigated range from early Holocene hunter-gatherers to nineteenth-century urban poor. Contributors broaden the concept of identity to include disability or health status, age, social class, religion, occupation, and communal and familial identities. In addition to combining bioarchaeological data with oral history and material artifacts, they use new methods including social network analysis and more humanistic approaches in osteobiography. Bioarchaeology and Identity Revisited offers updated ways of conceptualizing identity across time and space. A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen

Author : Alecia Schrenk,Lori A. Tremblay
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683402756

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Bioarchaeology of Care through Population-Level Analyses by Alecia Schrenk,Lori A. Tremblay Pdf

New methods for understanding healthcare in past societies “Provides unique and useful models that demonstrate how inferences can be made about communities of care in samples ranging in size from several dozen to several thousand. Authors weave together diverse lines of evidence—osteological, archaeological, ethnographic, clinical—in their historical and cultural contexts. Sophisticated analytical tools and theoretical frameworks position this book at the cutting edge of bioarchaeological research and illustrate the cultural relativity of care, caregiving, and healthcare in the past and present, and in Western and non-Western contexts.”—Alexis Boutin, coeditor of Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East: Recent Contributions from Bioarchaeology and Mortuary Archaeology Representing current and emerging methods and theory, this volume introduces new avenues for exploring how prehistoric and historic communities provided health care for their sick, injured, and disabled members. It adjusts and expands the bioarchaeology of care framework—a way of analyzing caregiving in the past designed for individual case studies of human skeletal remains—to detect and examine care at the population level. Covering a range of time from the Archaic period to the present, contributors discuss community settings including British hospitals and nursing homes, a shell burial mound site in Alabama, and the Mississippi State Asylum. These essays offer insights into the care given to children and those with reduced mobility, the social burden of health care, practices of euthanasia, and the relationship between care for the mentally ill and structural violence. A necessary extension to our understanding of the complexities of caregiving in the past, Bioarchaeology of Care through Population-Level Analyses shows that it is important to recognize the impact of disease or disability on both the individuals affected and their broader communities. Contributors demonstrate that flexibility in bioarchaeological modeling and methodology can result in robust and nuanced scholarship on caregiving in the past and the societies that provided that care. A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen Contributors: Petra Banks | Anna-Marie C. Casserly | Briana R. Moore | Anna Osterholtz | Bennjamin J. Penny-Mason | Charlotte A. Roberts | Alecia Schrenk | Diana S. Simpson | Lori A. Tremblay

Author : Cathy Willermet,Andrea Cucina
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813052373

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Bioarchaeology of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica by Cathy Willermet,Andrea Cucina Pdf

This volume offers a novel interdisciplinary view of the migration, mobility, ethnicity, and social identities of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican peoples. In studies that combine bioarchaeology, ethnohistory, isotope data, and dental morphology, contributors demonstrate the challenges and rewards of such integrative work when applied to large regional questions of population history. The essays in this volume are the results of fieldwork in Honduras, Belize, and a variety of sites in Mexico. One chapter uses dental health data and burial rituals to investigate the social status of sacrificial victims during the Late Classic period. Another analyzes skeletal remains from multiple research perspectives to explore the immigrant makeup of the multiethnic city of Copan. Contributors also use strontium and oxygen isotope data from tooth enamel and dental morphological traits to test hypotheses about migration, and they incorporate ethnohistorical sources in an examination of ancient Maya understandings of belonging and otherness. Revealing how complementary fields of study can together create a better understanding of the complex forces that impact population movements, this volume provides an inspiring picture of the exciting collaborative work currently under way among researchers in the region. A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen