Bioarchaeology: Health, Lifestyle, and Society in Recent Human Evolution

A Companion to Biological Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 379-394

  Larsen, Clark Spencer ^a   Walker, Phillip L ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioarchaeology health, lifestyle and society in recent human evolution; Inferred reduction in masticatory stress; Measuring and interpreting health and lifestyle; Relatedness, biological distance and population history; Study of human remains from archaeological contexts; The term 'bioarchaeology,' first introduced by Jane Buikstra; Variation in paleopathological indicators key trends, universal behaviors affecting health

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886839487     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444320039.ch21     Document Type: Chapter

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