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About Bioarchaeology
Bioarchaeology is the study of human remains from archaeological settings. Global in scope, bioarchaeologists seeks to understand past human adaptations from diverse environmental, economic, and social contexts.
Important Readings in Bioarchaeology
SOME KEY PERIODICALS
Mostly Monographs
GENERAL: Osteology, Skeletal Biology
Bass, W.M., III
1995 Human Osteology: A Laboratory and Field Manual. 4th ed. Missouri Archaeological Society, Columbia.
McLean, F. C., and M. R. Urist
1968 Bone: Fundamentals of the Physiology of Skeletal Tissue. 3rd ed. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.
Murray, P. D. F.
1936 Bones. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Scheuer, L., and S. Black
2000 Developmental Juvenile Osteology. Academic Press, San Diego.
Schwartz, J. H.
1995 Skeleton Keys: An Introduction to Human Skeletal Morphology, Development, and Analysis. Oxford University Press, New York.
Shipman, P., A. Walker, and D. Bichell
1985 The Human Skeleton. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
Steele, D. G., and C. A. Bramblett
1988 The Anatomy and Biology of the Human Skeleton. Texas A&M University Press, College Station.
White, T. D.
2000 Human Osteology. 2nd ed. Academic Press, San Diego.
Boddington, A., A. N. Garland, and R. C. Janaway (editors)
1987 Death, Decay and Reconstruction: Approaches to Archaeology and Forensic Science. Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK.
Brothwell, D. R. (editor)
1968 The Skeletal Biology of Earlier Human Populations. Pergamon Press, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Brothwell, D. R.
1981 Digging up Bones: The Excavation, Treatment and Study of Human Skeletal Remains. 3rd ed. Cornell University Press, Ithaca.
Buikstra, J. E. (editor)
1990 A Life in Science: Papers in Honor of J. Lawrence Angel. Center for American Archeology, Scientific Papers, No. 6.
Buikstra, J. E., and D. H. Ubelaker (editors)
1994 Standards for Data Collection from Human Skeletal Remains. Arkansas Archaeological Survey Research Series, No. 44.
Chamberlain, A.
1994 Human Remains. University of California Press, Berkeley.
Cox, M., and S. Mays (editors)
2000 Human Osteology in Archaeology and Forensic Science. Greenwich Medical Media, London, United Kingdom.
Grupe, G., and J. Peters (editors)
2003 Documenta Archaeobiologiae 1: Decyphering Ancient Bones. The Research Potential of Bioarchaeological Collections. Verlag Marie Leidorf, Rahden/Westf., Germany.
Humphreys, S. C., and H. King (editors)
1981 Mortality and Immortality: The Anthropology and Archaeology of Death. Academic Press, London, UK.
Iscan, M. Y., and K. A. R. Kennedy (editors)
1989 Reconstruction of Life from the Skeleton. Alan R. Liss, New York.
Katzenberg, M. A., and S. R. Saunders (editors)
2000 Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton. Wiley-Liss, New York.
Larsen, C. S.
1987 Bioarchaeological interpretations of subsistence economy and behavior from human skeletal remains. In Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, vol. 10, edited by M. B. Schiffer, pp. 339-445. Academic Press, San Diego.
1997 Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
1999 Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. Paperback edition.
2000 Skeletons in Our Closet: Revealing Our Past through Bioarchaeology. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.
Mays, S.
1998 The Archaeology of Human Bones. Routledge, London, UK.
Saunders, S. R., and A. Herring (editors)
1995 Grave Reflections: Portraying the Past Through Cemetery Studies. Canadian Scholars' Press, Toronto.
Sobolik, K. D. (editor)
1994 Paleonutrition: The Diet and Health of Prehistoric Americans. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Occasional Paper, No. 22.
Ubelaker, D. H.
1989 Human Skeletal Remains: Excavation, Analysis, Interpretation. 2nd ed. Taraxacum, Washington.
Beck, L. A. (editor)
1995 Regional Approaches to Mortuary Analysis. Plenum Press, New York.
Brown, J. A. (editor)
1971 Approaches to the Social Dimensions of Mortuary Practices. Society for American Archaeology, Memoir No. 25.
Chapman, R., I. Kinnes, and K. Randsborg (editors)
1981 The Archaeology of Death. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Keegan, S. L.
2002 Inhumation Rites in Late Roman Britain: The Treatment of the Engendered Body. British Archaeological Reports, No. 333. Hadrian Books, Oxford, UK.
O’Shea, J. M.
1984 Mortuary Variability: an Archaeological Investigation. Academic Press, New York.
Pearson, M. P.
2001 The Archaeology of Death and Burial. Texas A&M University Press, College Station.
Staller, J. E., and E. J. Currie
2001 Mortuary Practices and Ritual Associations: Shamanic Elements in Prehistoric Funerary Contexts in South America. British Archaeological Reports, No. S982. Hadrian Book, Oxford, UK.
Goodman, A. H., and L. L. Capasso (editors)
1992 Recent Contributions to the Study of Enamel Developmental Defects. Journal of Paleopathology, Monographic Publications, No. 2.
Hillson, S.
1986 Teeth. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.
1996 Dental Anthropology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.
Kelley, M. A., and C. S. Larsen (editors)
1991 Advances in Dental Anthropology. Wiley-Liss, New York.
Kieser, J. A.
1990 Human Adult Odontometrics: The Study of Variation in Adult Tooth Size. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Lukacs, J. R. (editor)
1992 Culture, Ecology and Dental Anthropology. Kamla-Raj Enterprises, Delhi, India.
1998 Human Dental Development, Morphology, and Pathology: A Tribute to Albert A. Dahlberg. University of Oregon Anthropological Papers No. 54.
Moorrees, C. F. A.
1957 The Aleut Dentition: A Correlative Study of Dental Characteristics in an Eskimoid People. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Scott, G. R., and C. G. Turner II
1988 Dental anthropology. Annual Review of Anthropology 17:99-126.
1997 The Anthropology of Modern Human Teeth: Dental Morphology and Its Variation in Recent Human Populations. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Teaford, M. F., M. M. Smith, and M. W. J. Ferguson
2000 Development, Function and Evolution of Teeth. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Turner, C. G., II
1991 The Dentition of Arctic Peoples. Garland Publishing, New York.
Walimbe, S. R., and S. S. Kulkarni
1993 Biological Adaptations in Human Dentition: An Odontometric Study on Living and Archaeological Populations in India. Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute, Pune, India.
Baker, J. R., and D. Brothwell
1980 Animal Diseases in Archaeology. Academic Press, London.
Barnes, E.
1994 Developmental Defects of the Axial Skeleton in Paleopathology. University Press of Colorado, Niwot.
Brothwell, D. R., and A. T. Sandison (editors)
1967 Diseases in Antiquity: A Survey of the Diseases, Injuries, and Surgery of Early Populations. C. C. Thomas, Springfield, Illinois.
Buikstra, J. E. (editor)
1981 Prehistoric Tuberculosis in the Americas. Center for American Archeology, Scientific Papers, No. 5.
Dutour, O., G. Palfi, J. Berato, and J.-P. Brun (editors)
1994 L'Origine de la Syphilis en Europe: Avant ou Apres 1493? Editions Errance, Paris.
Grauer, A. L., and P. Stuart-Macadam (editors)
1998 Sex and Gender in Paleopathological Perspective. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Jurmain, R.
1999 Stories from the Skeleton: Behavioral Reconstruction in Human Osteology. Gordon and Breach Publishers, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Møller-Christensen, V.
1961 Bone Changes in Leprosy. Munksgaard, Copenhagen, Denmark.
1978 Leprosy Changes of the Skull. Odense University Press, Odense, Denmark.
Ortner, D. J.
2003 Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
Ortner, D. J., and A. C. Aufderheide (editors)
1991 Human Paleopathology: Current Syntheses and Future Options. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington.
Ortner, D. J., and W. G. J. Putschar
1985 Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington.
Palfi, G., O. Dutour, J. Deak, and I. Hutas (editors)
1999 Tuberculosis, Past and Present. Golden Book Publisher, Tuberculosis Foundation.
Peréz-Peréz, A. (editor)
1996 Notes on Populational Significance of Paleopathological Conditions: Health, Illness and Death in the Past. Fundació Uriach, Barcelona.
Roberts, C. A., M. E. Lewis, and K. Manchester (editors)
2002 The Past and Present of Leprosy: Archaeological, Historical, and Palaeopathological and Clinical Approaches. British Archaeological Reports, No. S1054. Hadrian Books, Oxford, UK.
Roberts, C., and K. Manchester
1995 The Archaeology of Disease. 2nd ed. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York.
Rogers, J., and T. Waldron
1995 A Field Guide to Joint Disease in Archaeology. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK.
Steinbock, R. T.
1976 Paleopathological Diagnosis and Interpretation. Charles C Thomas, Springfield, Illinois.
Waldron, T.
1994 Counting the Dead: The Epidemiology of Skeletal Populations. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK.
HISTOLOGY AND DISEASE DIAGNOSIS
Carli-Thiele, P.
1996 Spuren von Mangelerkrankungen an steinzeitlichen Kinderskeleten. Verlag Erich Goltze, Gottingen, Germany.
Grupe, G., and A. N. Garland (editors)
1993 Histology of Ancient Human Bone: Methods and Diagnosis. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
Kreutz, K.
1997 Atiologie und Epidemiologie von Erkrankungen des Kindesalters bei der bajuwarischen Population von Straubing (Niederbayern). Cuvillier Verlag, Gottingen, Germany.
Schultz, M.
1993 Spuren Unspezifischer Entzundungen an Prahistorischen und Historischen Schadeln: Ein Beitrag zur Palaopathologie. Anthropologische Beitrage, 4.
INJURY, VIOLENCE, AND CANNIBALISM
Blakely, R. L. (editor)
1988 The King Site: Continuity and Contact in Sixteenth-Century Georgia. University of Georgia Press, Athens.
Eisenberg, L., and D. Hutchinson (editors)
1996 Special Issue: Violence. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 6:1-118.
Fiorato, V., A. Boylston, and C. Knüsel (editors)
2000 Blood Red Roses: The Archaeology of a Mass Grave from the Battle of Towton AD 1461. Oxbow Books, Oxford, UK.
Hillson, S. (editor)
2000 Special Issue: Cannibalism and Violence. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 10:1-92.
Martin, D. L., and D. W. Frayer (editors)
1997 Troubled Times: Violence and Warfare in the Past. Gordon and Breach Publishers, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Milner, G. R., C. S. Larsen, D. L. Hutchinson, M. A. Williamson, and D. A. Humpf
2000 Conquistadors, excavators, or rodents: what damaged the King site skeletons? American Antiquity 65:355-363.
Turner, C. G., II, and J. A. Turner
1999 Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric American Southwest. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
Webb, S.
1995 Palaeopathology of Aboriginal Australians: Health and Disease across a Hunter-Gatherer Continent. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
White, T. D.
1992 Prehistoric Cannibalism at Mancos 5MTUMR-2346. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
Willey, P.
1990 Prehistoric Warfare on the Great Plains: Skeletal Analysis of the Crow Creek Massacre Victims. Garland Publishing, New York.
Bridges, Patricia S.
1995 Skeletal biology and behavior in ancient humans. Evolutionary Anthropology 4:112-120.
Carter, D. R., and G. S. Beaupré
2001 Skeletal Function and Form: Mechanobiology of Skeletal Development, Aging, and Regeneration. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Currey, J.
1984 The Mechanical Adaptations of Bones. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
Martin, R. B., and D. B. Burr
1989 Structure, Function, and Adaptation of Compact Bone. Raven Press, New York.
Martin, R. B., D. B. Burr, and N. A. Sharkey
1998 Skeletal Tissue Mechanics. Springer, New York.
Frankel, V. H., and M. Nordin (editors)
1980 Basic Biomechanics of the Skeletal System. Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia.
Petersen, J.
2002 Sexual Revolutions: Gender and Labor at the Dawn of Agriculture. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
Peterson, J., and D. Hawkey (editors)
1998 Special Issue: Skeletal Modifications and Activity. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 8:303-411.
Ruff, C. B.
1991 Aging and Osteoporosis in Native Americans from Pecos Pueblo, New Mexico: Behavioral and Biomechanical Effects. Garland Publishing, New York.
Ambrose, S. H., and J. Krigbaum (editors)
2003 Bone Chemistry and Bioarchaeology. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 22:191-304.
Ezzo, J. A.
1993 Human Adaptation at Grasshopper Pueblo, Arizona: Social and Ecological Perspectives. International Monographs in Prehistory, Archaeological Series No. 4.
Price, T. D. (editor)
1989 The Chemistry of Prehistoric Human Bone. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Sandford, M. K. (editor)
1993 Investigations of Ancient Human Tissue: Chemical Analyses in Anthropology. Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, Langhorne, New York.
Schoeninger, M. J.
1995 Stable isotope studies in human evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology 4:83-98.
Sealy, J.
1986 Stable Carbon Isotopes and Prehistoric Diets in the South-Western Cape Province, South Africa. Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, No. 15. British Archaeological Reports, No. S293.
White, C. D. (editor)
1999 Reconstructing Ancient Maya Diet. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
Ahlstrom, T.
1994 Landmark Morphometrics and Osteology. Osteological Research Laboratory, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Buikstra, J. E.
1976 Hopewell in the Lower Illinois Valley: A Regional Study of Human Biological
Variability and Prehistoric Mortuary Behavior. Northwestern Archaeological Program Scientific Papers, No. 2.
Hauser, G., and G. F. De Stefano
1989 Epigenetic Variants of the Human Skull. E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, Germany.
Jacobi, K. P.
2000 Last Rites for the Maya: Genetic Structuring in a Colonial Cemetery. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
Keys, P. J.
1983 Craniometric Relationships among Plains Indians. University of Tennessee, Department of Anthropology, Report of Investigations No. 34.
Paine, Richard R. (editor)
1997 Integrating Archaeological Demography: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Prehistoric Population. Southern Illinois University Center for Archaeological Investigations No. 24.
Ubelaker, D. H.
1974 Reconstruction of Demographic Profiles from Ossuary Skeletal Samples: A Case Study from the Tidewater Potomac. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology No. 18.
Angel, J. L.
1971 The People of Lerna: Analysis of a Prehistoric Aegean Population. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington.
Arcini, C.
1999 Health and Disease in Early Lund. Medical Faculty Lund University, Sweden.
Atwell, K. A., and M. D. Conner (editors)
1991 The Kuhlman Mound Group and Late Woodland Mortuary Behavior in the Mississippi River Valley of West-Central Illinois. Kampsville Archeological Center, Research Series, 9.
Baker, B. J., and L. Kealhofer (editors)
1996 Bioarchaeology of Native American Adaptation in the Spanish Borderlands. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Bennike, P.
1985 Palaeopathology of Danish Skeletons: A Comparative Study of Demography, Disease and Injury. Akademisk Forlag, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Bennike, P., and A.-E. Brade
1999 Middelalderens Sygdomme og Behandlingsformer i Danmark. Medcinsk-Historisk Museum, Copenhagen University, Denmark.
Blakely, R. L. (editor)
1977 Biocultural Adaptation in Prehistoric America. University of Georgia Press, Athens.
Buikstra, J. E.
1977 Biocultural dimensions of archeological study: a regional perspective. In Biocultural Adaptation in Prehistoric America, edited by R. L. Blakely, pp. 67-84. University of Georgia Press, Athens.
Charles, D. K., S. R. Leigh, and J. E. Buikstra (editors)
1988 The Archaic and Woodland Cemeteries at the Elizabeth Site in the Lower Illinois Valley. Kampsville Archeological Center, Research Series, 7.
Cybulski, J. S.
1978 An Earlier Population of Hesquiat Harbour, British Columbia. British Columbia Provincial Museum, Cultural Recovery Papers, No. 1.
1992 A Greenville Burial Ground: Human Remains and Mortuary Elements in British Columbia Coast Prehistory. Archaeological Survey of Canada, Mercury Series Paper, No. 146.
Davies, M. V., and R. Walker (editors)
1993 Biological Anthropology and the Study of Ancient Egypt. British Museum Press, London, UK.
Dawes, J. D., and J. R. Magilton
1980 The Cemetery of St. Helen-on-the-Walls, Aldwark. Council for British Archaeology, London, United Kingdom.
Domett, K. M.
2001 Health in Late Prehistoric Thailand. British Archaeological Reports, No. S946. Archaeopress, Oxford.
Hanson, D. B., and M. Pietrusewsky (editors)
1997 Prehistoric Skeletal Biology in Island Ecosystems: Current Status of Bioarchaeological Research in the Marianas Archipelago. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 104:267-425.
Hemphill, B. E., and C. S. Larsen (editors)
1999 Understanding Prehistoric Lifeways in the Great Basin Wetlands: Bioarchaeological Reconstruction and Interpretation. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
Hutchinson, D. L.
2002 Foraging, Farming, and Coastal Biocultural Adaptation in Late Prehistoric North Carolina. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Kennedy, K. A. R., J. R. Lukacs, R. F. Pastor, T. L. Johnston, N. C. Lovell, J. N. Pal, B. E. Hemphill, and C. B. Burrow
1992 Human Skeletal Remains from Mahadaha: A Gangetic Mesolithic Site. South Asia Occasional Papers and Theses No. 11, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
Kenoyer, M., and R. H. Meadow (editors)
2003 Harappa Cemetery Excavation, 1986-1988. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
King, J. A., and D. H. Ubelaker (editors)
1996 Living and Dying on the 17th Century Patuxent Frontier. Maryland Historical Trust Press, Crownsville, Maryland.
Lambert, P. M.
2000 Bioarchaeologial Studies of Life in the Age of Agriculture: A View from the Southeast. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
Larsen, C. S.
1982 The Anthropology of St. Catherines Island: 3. Prehistoric Human Biological Adaptation. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, 57, part 3.
2000 Reading the bones of La Florida. Scientific American 282(6):80-85.
2002 Bioarchaeology of the Late Prehistoric Guale: South End Mound I, St. Catherines Island, Georgia. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History No. 84.
Larsen, C. S. (editor)
1990 The Archaeology of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale: 2. Biocultural Interpretations of a Population in Transition. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, No. 68.
2001 Bioarchaeology of La Florida: Human Biology in Northern Frontier New Spain. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Larsen, C. S., and R. L. Kelly (editors)
1995 Bioarchaeology of the Stillwater Marsh: Prehistoric Human Adaptation in the Western Great Basin. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, No. 77.
Larsen, C. S., and D. H. Thomas
1982 The Anthropology of St. Catherines Island: 4. The St. Catherines Period Mortuary Complex. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, 57, part 4.
1986 The Anthropology of St. Catherines Island: 5. The South End Mound Complex. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 63, part 1.
Levy, J. E. (editor)
1986 Skeletal Analysis in Southeastern Archaeology. North Carolina Archaeological Council Publication, No. 24.
Lilley, J. M., G. Stroud, D. R. Brothwell, and M. H. Williamson
1994 The Jewish Burial Ground at Jewbury. Council for British Archaeology, York, United Kingdom.
Lynnerup, N.
1998 The Greenland Norse: A Biological-Anthropological Study. Man & Society 24.
Martin, D. L., N. J. Akins, A. H. Goodman, and A. C. Swedlund
1995 Harmony and Discord: Bioarchaeology of the La Plata Valley. Museum of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. (in press)
Martin, D. L., A. H. Goodman, G. J. Armelagos, and A. L. Magennis
1991 Black Mesa Anasazi Health: Reconstructing Life from Patterns of Death and Disease. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Occasional Paper, No. 14.
McWhirr, A., L. Viner, and C. Wells
1982 Cirencester Excavations II: Romano-British Cemeteries at Cirencester. Corinium Museum, Cirencester, UK.
Merbs, C. F.
1983 Patterns of Activity-Induced Pathology in a Canadian Inuit Population. Archaeological Survey of Canada, Mercury Series Paper, No. 119.
Milner, G. R.
1983 The East St. Louis Stone Quarry Site Cemetery. University of Illinois Press, Urbana.
Molleson, T., and M. Cox (editors)
1993 The Spitalfields Project: Volume 2 - The Anthropology, The Middling Sort. Council for British Archaeology Report, No. 86.
Morris, A. G.
1992 The Skeletons of Contact: A Study of Protohistoric Burials from the Lower Orange River Valley, South Africa. Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Owsley, D. W., and R. L. Jantz (editors)
1994 Skeletal Biology in the Great Plains: Migration, Warfare, Health, and Subsistence. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington.
Owsley, D. W., and J. C. Rose (editors)
1997 Bioarcheology of the North Central United States. Arkansas Archeological Survey Research Series No. 49.
Papathanasiou, A.
2001 A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Neolithic Alepo