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Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton

4 reviews
Clark Spencer Larsen

Cambridge University Press, 1999

the best aviable compendium in area of osteoarchaeology
Chief advantage of author's approach lies in bringing together many dispersed areas that are relevant in understanding individual and social behavior of archaeological populations with critical and introspective evaluation of various up-to-date analythical methods as well as more classical morphology-orientated approaches in physical anthropology.Although,regrettably,there is no attempt to ...

Bioarcheology of the Late Prehistoric Guale: South End Mound I, St. Catherines Island, Georgia (American ...
Clark Spencer Larsen

American Museum of Natural History, 2002

South End Mound I, St Casterines Island, Georgia, by Clark Spencer Larsen--American Museum of Natural History, Antropological Papers, Jul;y 24, 2002, # 84-- trade paper, in Very Good condition

Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology

1 review
Clark Spencer Larsen

W. W. Norton, 2008

Well planned and easy to understand
Compared to some anthropology textbooks this one is quite easy to read. It is a first edition so it has a couple minor errors, but nothing too bad. It also doesn't explain some of the contentious points of anthropology, which may confuse some who stumble upon them through research, but I guess that is inevitable for a beginning book. Not bad overall, and far cheaper on amazon than through ...

Human Origins : The Fossil Record

4 reviews
Clark Spencer Larsen, Robert M. Matter, ...

Waveland Press, 1998

Awesome illustrations and coverage of the specimens
Covers a ton of prominent homind specimens with detailed black and white illustrations (drawings not photos) that accent the morphological features of each specimen. Includes detailed descriptions of the specimens and also a nice description at the beginning of each section. As a bonus also includes a section with non-hominid primate specimens. This book is great for anthropology students ...

Prehistoric Lifeways in the Great Basin Wetlands: Bioarchaelogical Reconstruction and Interpretation
Brian E. Hemphill, Clark Spencer Larsen

University of Utah Press, 2000

PREHISTORIC LIFEWAYS IN THE GREAT BASIN WETLANDS examines how the earliest inhabitants of the Great Basin in Nevada, Utah, and Oregon made use of the ancient marshes and lakes. When the Great Salt Lake receded in the 1980s from its highest historically recorded levels, it exposed a large number of archaeological and burial sites. Other wetland areas in the region experienced similar flooding and site exposure. The resulting archaeological ...

Skeletons in Our Closet: Revealing Our Past through Bioarchaeology

1 review
Clark Spencer Larsen

Princeton University Press, 2002

Mute testimonies
Next time your bones creak, count your lucky stars. Your ancestors whoever they were, had it worse. And people like Clark Larsen, an anthropologist at the University of North Carolina, now have techniques that can measure almost exactly how much worse. Most of Larsen's work recounted in "Skeletons in Our Closet" was done in the Great Basin (Nevada, Utah and vicinity), where the living was never ...

In the Wake of Contact: Biological Responses to Conquest

Wiley-Liss, 1993

In the Wake of Contact Biological Responses to Conquest Clark Spencer Larsen and George R. Milner, Editors The Columbian Quincentennial has sparked a new wave of research into the effects of European expansionism on the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Pacific Islands. This volume offers an authoritative overview of recent bioanthropological investigations of the demographic and epidemiologic consequences of the European influx, ...

Bioarchaeology of Spanish Florida: The Impact of Colonialism (Ripley P. Bullen Series)

University Press of Florida, 2001

These important essays address the biological consequences of the arrival of Europeans in the New World and on the lifeways of native populations following contact in the late 16th century. Moving away from monocausal explanations of population change, they maintain that disease should be viewed as only a facet of a complex problem and that issues relating to diet, nutrition, activity, the work environment, and social and political change are ...

Advances in Dental Anthropology
Marc A. Kelley

Wiley-Liss, 1991

In 1963, a new, distinct area of anthropological inquiry was established - the study of the teeth as a key to the biology and behaviour of past and living populations. This book chronicles the dynamic progress made in the field over the last 25 years. It covers a diverse range of topics, focusing on a variety of research questions and investigative agendas of current interest to dental anthropologists.