Description
Book SynopsisThis volume highlights advances made in palaeopathology and demography through the analyses of historic cemeteries. These advances include associating documentary evidence with skeletal evaluations, and the application of new evaluative techniques.
Table of ContentsPartial table of contents:
ISSUES AND CONSIDERATIONS.
Politics, Law, Pragmatics, and Human Burial Excavations: An Examplefrom Northern California (L. Goldstein).
Historic Cemetery Analysis: Practical Considerations (D.Ubelaker).
THE ASSESSMENT OF DEMOGRAPHIC PATTERNS.
A Piece of Chicago's Past: Exploring Subadult Mortality in theDunning Poorhouse Cemetery (A. Grauer & E. McNamara).
Bones in the Basement: Bioarchaeology of Historic Remains inNonmortuary Contexts (J. Harrington & R. Blakely).
RECONSTRUCTING PATTERNS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE.
Cross Homestead: Life and Death on the Midwestern Frontier (C.Larsen, et al.).
Dental Pathologies Among Inmates of the Monroe County Poorhouse (R.Sutter).
Nitrogen Isotope Evidence for Weaning Age in a Nineteenth CenturyCanadian Skeletal Sample (M. Katzenberg & S. Pfeiffer).
Index.
