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Beyond the Bones: Engaging with Disparate Datasets provides a forum in which anthropology students and scholars wrestle with the fundamental possibilities and limitations in uniting multiple lines of evidence, such as skeletal remains, cemetery reports, ancient DNA, hospital records, clinical datase...
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Elsevier, AP, Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam ; London : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2016] ©2016 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128046012 |
| Summary: |
Beyond the Bones: Engaging with Disparate Datasets provides a forum in which anthropology students and scholars wrestle with the fundamental possibilities and limitations in uniting multiple lines of evidence, such as skeletal remains, cemetery reports, ancient DNA, hospital records, clinical datasets, nutritional interviews, and linguistic models. The book is useful for a wide range of academics and graduate students undertaking interdisciplinary research. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xiv, 152 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9780128046685 0128046686 |
| Index Number: | GN42 |
| CLC: | C912.4 |
| Contents: |
Fifty shades of gray literature: deconstructing "high" infant mortality with new data sets in historic cemetery populations / Direct digital radiographic imaging of archaeological skeletal assemblages: an advantageous technique and the use of the images as a research resource / "Readmitted under urgent circumstance": uniting archives and bioarchaeology at the Royal London Hospital / Reading between the lines: disparate data and castration studies / Hunting for pathogens: ancient DNA and the historical record / The use of linguistic data in bioarchaeological research: an example from the American Southwest / The present informs the past: incorporating modern clinical data into paleopathological analyses of metabolic bone disease / Uniting perception and reality in human nutrition : integration of qualitative and quantitative data to understand consumption / Conclusion and future directions : converging disparate approaches ina new biological anthropology / |