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Forensic Anthropology
Key topics and basic laboratory training for beginning students This versatile laboratory manual is designed to support introductory undergraduate courses in forensic anthropology. Usable for both in-person and online classes and suitable to accompany any textbook or for use on its own as a text–lab manual hybrid, it provides basic training for beginner students in relevant methods of biological profile estimation and trauma assessment for use in medico-legal death investigations. Structured in a standard format for classes and existing texts, this manual offers a unique emphasis on lab exercises that align with general studies requirements and basic science competency. Each chapter begins...
The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research
Network research has recently been adopted as one of the tools of the trade in archaeology, used to study a wide range of topics: interactions between island communities, movements through urban spaces, visibility in past landscapes, material culture similarity, exchange, and much more. This Handbook is the first authoritative reference work for archaeological network research, featuring current topical trends and covering the archaeological application of network methods and theories. This is elaborately demonstrated through substantive topics and case studies drawn from a breadth of periods and cultures in world archaeology. It highlights and further develops the unique contributions made by archaeological research to network science, especially concerning the development of spatial and material culture network methods and approaches to studying long-term network change. This is the go-to resource for students and scholars wishing to explore how network science can be applied in archaeology through an up-to-date overview of the field.
Healthmaking in Ancient Egypt
This book explores the health of ancient Egyptians living in the New Kingdom village of Deir el-Medina. Through an interdisciplinary approach that combines skeletal analysis with textual evidence, the book examines how social factors, such as social support, healthcare access, and economic stability, played crucial roles in buffering individuals from stress and promoting good health. This is the first, comprehensive book on the bioarchaeology of Deir el-Medina including data from human remains spanning the site’s New Kingdom occupation. This book highlights how the Social Determinants of Health can be used to explain how past people maintained their health.
Justice and Warfare in Aboriginal Australia
Meticulously examining ethnographic sources, Christophe Darmangeat argues that warfare among Australian Aborigines was mostly an extension of their judicial systems. He demonstrates how violent conflict occurred when circumstances prohibited regulated proceedings.
Modeling the Past
How do researchers use dynamic network analysis (DYRA) to explore, model, and try to understand the complex global history of our species? Reduced to bare bones, network analysis is a way of understanding the world around us — a way called relational thinking — that is liberating but challenging. Using this handbook, researchers learn to develop historical and archaeological research questions anchored in DYRA. Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professional historians and archaeologists can consult on issues that range from hypothesis-driven research to critiquing dominant historical narratives, especially those that have tended to ignore the diversity of the archaeological record.
The Philosophical and Theological Relevance of Evolutionary Anthropology
This book explores the philosophical and theological significance of evolutionary anthropology and includes diverse approaches to the relationship between evolution, culture, and religion. Particular emphasis is placed on the work of Michael Tomasello, who contributes an opening chapter that tackles the role of religion in his natural history of human thinking and human morality. The first section of the book considers the philosophical foundations of evolutionary anthropology and shows that evolutionary anthropology is open to a multitude of philosophical analyses. The second part offers theological perspectives on the relationship between evolutionary and theological anthropology and between evolution and religion. The volume also reflects more broadly on the complex relationship between religion and science in the contexts of late-modern societies. It makes a significant contribution to the religion and science debate and offers performative evidence that an interdisciplinary discussion between theologians, philosophers, and natural scientists is feasible.
Discovering World Prehistory
Discovering World Prehistory introduces the general field of archaeology and highlights for students the difference between obtaining data (basic archaeology) and interpreting those data into a prehistory, a coherent model of the past. The opening section of the book covers the history, methods, and techniques of archaeology to provide a detailed examination of archaeological investigation. It highlights the excitement of archaeological discovery and how archaeologists analyze and interpret evidence. The second half covers global prehistory and shows how archaeological data is interpreted through theoretical frameworks to create a picture of the past. Starting with human evolution, chapters detail the key stages, from around the world, of prehistory, finishing with the transition to post-prehistoric societies. Including chapter overviews, highlight boxes, chapter summaries, key concepts, and suggested reading, Discovering World Prehistory is designed to support introductory courses in archaeology and allows students to experience both methods and interpretation, offering a perfect introduction to the discipline.
Bioarchaeology
Bioarchaeology covers the history and general theory of the field plus the recovery and laboratory treatment of human remains. Bioarchaeology is the study of human remains in context from an archaeological and anthropological perspective. The book explores, through numerous case studies, how the ways a society deals with their dead can reveal a great deal about that society, including its religious, political, economic, and social organizations. It details recovery methods and how, once recovered, human remains can be analyzed to reveal details about the funerary system of the subject society and inform on a variety of other issues, such as health, demography, disease, workloads, mobility, sex and gender, and migration. Finally, the book highlights how bioarchaeological techniques can be used in contemporary forensic settings and in investigations of genocide and war crimes. In Bioarchaeology, theories, principles, and scientific techniques are laid out in a clear, understandable way, and students of archaeology at undergraduate and graduate levels will find this an excellent guide to the field.
Historia broni i techniki wojskowej od momentu jej powstania
Używanie przedmiotów jako broni zaobserwowano wśród szympansów, co doprowadziło do spekulacji, że wczesne hominidy używały broni już pięć milionów lat temu. Nie można tego jednak potwierdzić na podstawie fizycznych dowodów, ponieważ drewniane pałki, włócznie i nieukształtowane kamienie pozostawiłyby niejednoznaczny zapis. Najwcześniejszą jednoznaczną bronią, jaką można znaleźć, są włócznie Schöningen, osiem drewnianych włóczni do rzucania sprzed ponad 300 000 lat. Najwcześniejsze starożytne bronie były ewolucyjnymi ulepszeniami narzędzi późnego neolitu, ale znaczące ulepszenia materiałów i technik wytwarzania doprowadziły do serii rewolucji w tec...
Historia broni w prehistorii i starożytnym świecie
Brąz zastąpił kamień w broni. Historycznie rzecz biorąc, miecz powstał w epoce brązu, ewoluując od sztyletu; najwcześniejsze okazy pochodzą z około 1600 roku pne. Późniejszy miecz z epoki żelaza pozostał dość krótki i bez jelca. Spatha, tak jak rozwinęła się w późnorzymskiej armii, stała się poprzednikiem europejskiego miecza średniowiecza, początkowo przyjętego jako, i dopiero w późnym średniowieczu, rozwinął się w klasyczny miecz uzbrojony z jelcem. Miecze z wczesnej epoki żelaza znacznie różniły się od późniejszych mieczy stalowych. Były raczej utwardzane przez zgniot, a nie hartowane, co sprawiało, że były mniej więcej takie same lub tylko nieznacznie lepsze pod względem wytrzymałości i twardości do wcześniejszych mieczy z brązu. Oznaczało to, że podczas użytkowania nadal mogły zostać wygięte. Jednak łatwiejsza produkcjaa większa dostępność surowca pozwoliła na znacznie większą skalę produkcji.
