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Roman Bioarchaeology

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Life and Death in the Roman World

University of Florida Press

In this book, researchers use human skeletal remains uncovered from throughout the Roman world to portray how ordinary people lived and died, spanning the empire’s vast geography and 1,000 years of ancient history.

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Social Inequality and Difference in the Ancient Greek World

Bioarchaeological Perspectives

University of Florida Press

In this volume, bioarchaeologists, osteologists, archaeologists, and paleopathologists examine the ways social inequalities and differences affected health and wellbeing in ancient Greece.

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The Biocultural Consequences of Contact in Mexico

Five Centuries of Change

University of Florida Press
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Leprosy

Past and Present

University of Florida Press

Through an unprecedented multidisciplinary and global approach, this book documents the dramatic 7,000-year history of leprosy using bioarchaeological, clinical, and historical information from a wide variety of contexts, dispelling many longstanding myths about the disease.

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Bioarchaeology and Identity Revisited

University of Florida Press

This volume highlights new directions in the study of social identities in past populations. Contributors expand the scope of the field regionally, methodically, and theoretically, moving behind the previous focus on single aspects of identity by demonstrating multi-scalar approaches and by explicitly addressing intersectionality in the archaeological record.

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The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange

Bioarchaeological Explorations of Atypical Burials

University of Florida Press
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Massacres

Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Approaches

University of Florida Press

This volume integrates data from researchers in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology to explain when and why group-targeted violence occurs. Massacres have plagued both ancient and modern societies, and by analyzing skeletal remains from these events within their broader cultural and historical contexts this volume opens up important new understandings of the underlying social processes that continue to lead to these tragedies.

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Bioarchaeology of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica

An Interdisciplinary Approach

University Press of Florida

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.

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Children and Childhood in Bioarchaeology

Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives

University Press of Florida
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Victims of Ireland's Great Famine

The Bioarchaeology of Mass Burials at Kilkenny Union Workhouse

University Press of Florida
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