Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia /

Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia /

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Imprint:Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Description:xiv, 360 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 43
Subject:
Anthropometry -- Southeast Asia.
Ethnoarchaeology -- Southeast Asia.
Human remains (Archaeology) -- Southeast Asia.
Prehistoric peoples -- Southeast Asia.
Prehistoric peoples -- Diseases -- Southeast Asia.
Anthropometry.
Ethnoarchaeology.
Human remains (Archaeology)
Prehistoric peoples.
Southeast Asia.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6002739
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Other authors / contributors:Oxenham, Marc.
Tayles, N. G. (Nancy G.)
ISBN:0521825806 (hbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Standard no.:9780521825801
Table of Contents:
  • List of contributors
  • Foreword: Emerging frontiers in the bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction: Southeast Asian bioarchaeology past and present
  • Part I. Morphological diversity, evolution and population relationships
  • 2. The population history of Southeast Asia viewed from morphometric analyses of human skeletal and dental remains
  • 3. A multivariate craniometric study of the prehistoric and modern inhabitants of Southeast Asia, East Asia and surrounding regions: a human kaleidoscope?
  • 4. Interpretation of craniofacial variation and diversification of East and Southeast Asians
  • 5. New perspectives on the peopling of Southeast and East Asia during the late upper Pleistocene
  • 6. Human variation and evolution in Holocene Peninsular Malaysia
  • 7. Dentition of the Batak people of Palawan Island, the Philippines: Southeast Asian Negrito origins
  • Part II. Health, disease and quality of life
  • 8. Subsistence change and dental health in the people of Non Nok Tha, northeast Thailand
  • 9. Human biology from the bronze age to the iron age in the Mun River valley of northeast Thailand
  • 10. Palaeodietary change among pre-state metal age societies in northeast Thailand: a study using bone stable isotopes
  • 11. The oral health consequences of the adoption and intensification of agriculture in Southeast Asia
  • 12. Cranial lesions on the late Pleistocene Indonesian Homo erectus Ngandong 7
  • 13. 'The predators within': investigating the relationship between malaria and health in the prehistoric Pacific Islands
  • Part III. Conclusions
  • 14. Synthesising Southeast Asian population history and palaeohealth
  • Index

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