Bioarchaeologists speak out : deep time perspectives on contemporary issues /: deep time perspectives on contemporary issues. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jane E. Buikstra, editor.
• Editors: Buikstra, Jane E
• Contents: 1: Bioarchaeologists Speak Out: An Introduction.- 2: Knowing Your Audience: Reactions to the Human Body, Dead and Undead.- 3: Bioarchaeological Evidence for Prehistoric Violence: Use and Misuse in the Popular Media.- 4: Bridging the Precontact and Postcontact Divide in Eastern North America: Prior Conditions Set the Stage for Historic-Period Outcomes.- 5: Misconceptions about the Bioarchaeology of Plague.- 6: Changing The Climate: Bioarchaeology Responds to Deterministic Thinking about Human-Environmental Interactions in the Past.- 7: Stone agers in the Fast-Lane? How bioarchaeologists can address the Paleo Diet myth.- 8: Ancient Migrations: Biodistance, genetics, and the persistence of typological thinking.- 9: Opening up the family tree: promoting more diverse and inclusive studies of family, kinship, and relatedness in Bioarchaeology.- 10: The Fallacy of the Transgender Skeleton.- 11: The Body-as-Evidence Paradigm in Domestic and International Forensic Anthropology.- 12: Contributions of Mummy Science to Public Perception of the Past.- 13: Writing Bioarchaeological Stories to Right Past Wrongs.- 14: Bioarchaeology and the Media: Anthropology SciComm in a Post-Truth Landscape.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 930.1; Social sciences; Human remains (Archaeology); Paleoanthropology; Archaeology; HISTORY / Ancient / General; Social Science -- Archaeology; Archaeology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319930121; 3319930125
• Related ISBNs: 9783319930114; 3319930117
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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