Tuberculosis has plagued humans and animals for thousands of years. Though apparently in decline with the advent of effective chemotherapy and improved living conditions, sanitation and…
Edited by Sloan Williams, Lane Beck, Jane Buikstra and Gordon Rakita
This collection explores the behavioral and social facets of funerary, mortuary and burial rites in both past and present societies. By utilizing data from around the world and combining…
Edited by Steven Leigh, Jane Buikstra and Douglas Charles
The Elizabeth site consisted of early Middle Woodland and Late Woodland cemeteries, and Middle/Late Archaic midden and burials, atop a bluff on the west side of the lower Illinois River…
Edited by Jane Buikstra and Douglas Charles
Two thousand years ago, the Hopewell culture dominated much of eastern North America and left behind earthworks and other artifacts that continue to fascinate archaeologists. Recreating…
The core subject matter of bioarchaeology is the lives of past peoples, interpreted anthropologically. Human remains, contextualized archaeologically and historically, form the unit of…
Forensic anthropology is a vastly popular and rapidly changing profession, yet to date there has been no volume that reflects the current state of the discipline and forecasts its future…
Edited by Jane Buikstra, Aubrey Baadsgaard and Alexis Boutin
Taking cues from current theoretical perspectives and capitalizing on the strengths of new and sophisticated methods of analysis, "Breathing New Life into the Evidence of Death"…
Edited by Jane Buikstra and Charlotte Roberts
"The Global History of Paleopathology" is the first comprehensive global compendium on the history of paleopathology, an interdisciplinary scientific discipline that focuses on the study…