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The Proto-Neolithic Cemetery in Shanidar Cave
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

The Proto-Neolithic Cemetery in Shanidar Cave

Shanidar Cave in the Zagros Mountains, with its 26 burials containing 35 bodies, is the oldest prehistoric site with the longest history of occupation in Iraq'. This volume provides an archaeological overview of the site, which dates to the 11th millennium BC, excavated throughly by Ralph Solecki throughout the 1950s.

Execution by Styrax in Ancient Thasos
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 50

Execution by Styrax in Ancient Thasos

This essay presents a unique forensic / bioarchaeological investigation of the traumatised remains of an older male from Thasos, exploring the nature of the executing weapon reconstructed in bronze, the archaeometry on the trajectory and factors of speed and force at the deliverance of the deadly strike.

History of Physical Anthropology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 652

History of Physical Anthropology

The comparative study of humans as biological organisms, their evolution, and their physiological and anatomical functions and ecology of primates surveys the entire field and summarizes and organizes the basic knowledge, fundamental principles and development.

A Field Guide to a New Meta-field
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 365

A Field Guide to a New Meta-field

  • Categories: Art

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Eastern Roman Mounted Archers and Extraordinary Medico-Surgical Interventions at Paliokastro in Thasos Island during the ProtoByzantine Period
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 58

Eastern Roman Mounted Archers and Extraordinary Medico-Surgical Interventions at Paliokastro in Thasos Island during the ProtoByzantine Period

A recent archaeological discovery at Paliokastro (Thasos, Greece), and the subsequent study of the human skeletal remains interred in four monumental funerary contexts, provide for the first time through the archaeological record of the region a unique insight of the mounted archers and their female kin during the turbulent ProtoByzantine period.

Archaeological Fieldwork and Opportunities Bulletin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 664

Archaeological Fieldwork and Opportunities Bulletin

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Toyah Phase of Central Texas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

The Toyah Phase of Central Texas

In the fourteenth century, a culture arose in and around the Edwards Plateau of Central Texas that represents the last prehistoric peoples before the cultural upheaval introduced by European explorers. This culture has been labeled the Toyah phase, characterized by a distinctive tool kit and a bone-tempered pottery tradition. ?Spanish documents, some translated decades ago, offer glimpses of these mobile people. Archaeological excavations, some quite recent, offer other views of this culture, whose homeland covered much of Central and South Texas. For the first time in a single volume, this book brings together a number of perspectives and interpretations of these hunter-gatherers and how th...

Eastern Roman Mounted Archers and Extraordinary Medico-Surgical Interventions at Paliokastro in Thasos Island During the ProtoByzantine Period
  • Language: en

Eastern Roman Mounted Archers and Extraordinary Medico-Surgical Interventions at Paliokastro in Thasos Island During the ProtoByzantine Period

A recent archaeological discovery at Paliokastro (Thasos, Greece), and the subsequent study of the human skeletal remains interred in four monumental funerary contexts, provide for the first time through the archaeological record of the region a unique insight of the mounted archers and their female kin during the turbulent ProtoByzantine period.

Geometric Period Plithos Burial Ground at Chora of Naxos Island, Greece: Anthropology Report
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 98

Geometric Period Plithos Burial Ground at Chora of Naxos Island, Greece: Anthropology Report

This report aims to offer glimpses of the human condition on Naxos island, Greece, focusing on the archaeoanthropologic study of the human skeletal remains along with associated contexts of faunal materials recovered from the Geometric (9th -7th c BC) component of the burial ground site of Plithos in Chora at Naxos island.

Parian Polyandreia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 414

Parian Polyandreia

This book centres on the anthropological study of two late 8th century BC monumental graves, including a considerable population sample of cremated males, at the ancient necropolis of Paroikia at Paros, Greece. The study investigates inter-island features of the human record, observable as ingrained traces in the skeletal record.