Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- 1. Osteobiography and Bioarchaeology -- Part 1. Ancestors and Descendants -- 2. The Magician: An Ancestral Hopi Leader -- 3. The Axed Man of Mosfell: Skeletal Evidence of a Viking Age Homicide, the Icelandic Sagas, and Feud -- 4. Legendary Chamorro Strength: Skeletal Embodiment and the Boundaries of Interpretation -- 5. Mortuary Evidence for Maya Political Resistance and Religious Syncretism in Colonial Belize -- Part 2. Ancient Travelers and "Others" -- 6. Social Marginalization among the Chiribaya: The Curandero of Yaral, Southern Peru -- 7. A Neolithic Nomad from Dakhleh Oasis -- 8. Lesley: A Unique Bronze Age Individual from Southeastern Arabia -- 9. The "African Queen": A Portuguese Mystery -- Part 3. Craftsmen and Artisans -- 10. Sew Long? The Osteobiography of a Woman from Medieval Polis, Cyprus -- 11. A Master Artisan? Tribute to the Founder of a Teotihuacán Apartment Compound -- 12. Vulcan: Skilled Village Craftsman of Ban Chiang, Thailand -- 13. Written in Stone, Written in Bone: The Osteobiography of a Bronze Age Craftsman from Alalakh -- Part 4. Farm and Village -- 14. Life and Death of a Mother and Child in Nineteenth-Century Ontario, Canada -- 15. Thumbprints of a Midwife: Birth and Infant Death in an Ancient Pueblo Community -- 16. Reading a Life: A Fourteenth-Century Ancestral Puebloan Woman -- 17. From Cradle to Grave and Beyond: A Maya Life and Death -- List of Contributors -- Index.

From Bronze Age Thailand to Viking Iceland, from an Egyptian oasis to a family farm in Canada, The Bioarchaeology of Individuals invites readers to unearth the daily lives of people throughout history. Covering a span of more than four thousand years of human history and focusing on individuals who lived between 3200 BC and the nineteenth century, the essays in this book examine the lives of nomads, warriors, artisans, farmers, and healers. The contributors employ a wide range of tools, including traditional macroscopic skeletal analysis, bone chemistry, ancient DNA, grave contexts, and local legends, sagas, and other historical information. The collection as a whole presents a series of osteobiographies--profiles of the lives of specific individuals whose remains were excavated from archaeological sites. The result offers a more "personal" approach to mortuary archaeology; this is a book about people--not just bones.

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