Faces from the Past : Diachronic Patterns in the Biology of Human Populations from the Eastern Mediterranean. Papers in honour of Patricia Smith

by: Faerman, M. Horwitz, L.K. Kahana, T. Zilberman, U.

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Faces from the past : diachronic patterns in the biology of human populations from the eastern Mediterranean : papers in honour of Patricia Smith

Authors:Patricia Smith, Marina Faerman

Series:
BAR international series, 1603

280 pages : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 30 cm

Contents:
The future of physical anthropology / Phillip L. Walker
Dental development and life history in primates and a comaprison of cuspal enamel growth trajectories in a specimen of Homo erectus from Java (Sangiran S7-37), a Neanderthal (Tabun C1) and an early Homo sapiens specimen (Skhul II from Israel / M. Christopher Dean
Were there Neanderthals in the Levant? / Silvana Condemi
Dental development and pathology from the Levantine middle Paleolithic: evidence from Kebara and Qafzeh Hominids / Anne-marie Tillier
Tooth components in archaic Homo sapiens/ Neanderthal specimens from Israel and their taxonomic affiliation / Uri Zilberman
Dental attrition: Neanderthals, Romans and Egyptians and the questions of where we go now / Don Brothwell
A final Natufian population: health and burial status at Eynan-Mallaha / Fanny Bocquentin
Morbidity and mortality in the late PPNB populations from Basta and Ba'ja (Jordan) / Michael Schultz [and others]
"What ceremony else?" Taphonomy and the ritual treatment of the dead in the pre-pottery Neolithic B mortuary complex at Kfar HaHoresh, Israel / Tal Simmons, Nigel Goring-Morris and Liora Kolska Horwitz
Is houase 12 at Bouqras a Charnel house? / Deborah C. Merrett and Christopher Meiklejohn
Times of stress at Çatalhöyük / Theya Molleson
Artificial cranial deformation in the aceramic Neolithic Near East: evidence from Cyprus / Françoise Le Mort
A retrospective view of cauterization: evidence from Anatolia / Metin Özbek
Inter-group variation in long bone morphology: an osteometric and radiological study of past populations of Israel / Leonor Dujovny
Human remains from the Nahal Tzeelim Cave, the Dead Sea area / Baruch Arensburg
The EB IA burials of Bâb Edh-Dhrâʻ, Jordan: bioarchaeological evidence of metabolic disease / Donald J. Ortner, Evan M. Garofalo, Molly K. Zuckerman
A Roman-Byzantine population from Giv'at Shappira, Jerusalem (Israel) / Baruch Arensburg and Anna Belfer-Cohen
Challenges in the study of health and disease in the Crusaders / Piers D. Mitchell
The evidence for tuberculosis in the eastern Mediterranean: past and current research and future prospects / Charlotte Roberts and Jane Buikstra
The emergence of the zoonotic pathogens in the southern Levant / Gila Kahila Bar-Gal and Charles L. Greenblatt
Bones, teeth and ancient DNA unravel major issues in Levantine bio-history / Israel Hershkovitz and Mark Spigelman
From physical anthropology to molecular genetics: studies of Israeli populations in the 20th century / Batsheva Bonne-Tamir
The genetic history of populations in the southern Levant as revealed by Y chromosome polymorphisms / Almut Nebel [and others]
Forensic anthropology in Israel / Tzipi Kahana and Jehuda Hiss

A celebration of Patricia Smith?s distinguished career, the papers presented in this Festschrift focus on a region and research topics that have fascinated and challenged her since her student days. The broad intellectual and geographic range covered by the papers offers a wealth of information and insights into the biology of past and present populations of the Eastern Mediterranean, a region rich in history and human diversity.

Faces from the Past : Diachronic Patterns in the Biology of Human Populations from the Eastern Mediterranean. Papers in honour of Patricia Smith

by: Faerman, M. Horwitz, L.K. Kahana, T. Zilberman, U.

• ISBN-13: 9781407300207 / 978-1-4073-0020-7
• ISBN-03: 1407300202 / 1-4073-0020-2
• Archaeopress, Oxford, 2007

Price: 72,00 EURO

1 copy in stock