2003, ISBN: 9781841718231

15 papers from the Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology held in Southampton, England in 2003: (1) The rec… Altro …

15 papers from the Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology held in Southampton, England in 2003: (1) The reciprocal effects of taphonomy, funerary practices and anatomical features on the state of preservation of human remains (Silvia Bello); (2) Peri- and post mortem surface features on archaeological human bone: why they should not be ignored and a protocol for their identification and interpretation. (Louise Loe and Margaret Cox); (3) New perspectives on preservation of the dead: a review of the underlying physico-chemical principles involved OR Preservation of the dead - a thwarted bacterium's view (William J White); (4) Selective Burial in Irish Megalithic Tombs; Burial Practice, Age, Sex, and Representation in the Neolithic (Jessica F. Beckett); (5) Disturbing the dead: the displacement and destruction of skeletal remains in early medieval Wessex, c.600-1100AD. (Annia Kristina Cherryson); (6) Tallow Hill Cemetery, Worcester: The importance of detailed study of post-mediaeval graveyards (Alan R. Ogden, Anthea Boylston and Tom Vaughan); (7) Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes: Human Skeletal Remains from Raven Sear Cave in the Yorkshire Dales (Stephany Leach); (8) A Study of Paget's Disease at Norton Priory, Cheshire. A Medieval Religious House (Anthea Boylston and Alan Ogden); (9) The Bog Bodies of Northwestern Europe: Current Research (Heather Gill-Robinson); (10) Beyond 'Man the Hunter': The Evidence from Windover (Florida, USA)(Christine Hamlin); (11) Changing Views about the Local Evolution of Human Populations in the Southeastern Pampas of Argentina during the Holocene (Gustavo (Barrientos, S. Perez, V. Bernal, P. Gonzalez, M. Beguelin and M. Del Papa); (12) Measuring variation in the Neolithic human bones from the Orkney Islands (John Bernal, Sonia R. Zakrzewski and Andrew Jones); (13) Fluctuating Asymmetry: A Potential Osteological Application (Rebecca A. Storm and Christopher J. Knusel); (14) The Adult Human Occipital Bone: Measurement Variance and Observer Error (Rene Gapert and Jason Last); (15) Estimating Age at Death from the Pubic Symphysis: Past, Present and Future (Rebecca Gowland and Andrew T. Chamberlain). Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (British Archaeological Reports British Series) Zakrzewski, Sonia, British Archaeological Reports<