Physical Anthropology of European Populations
Author: Ilse Schwidetzky
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-06-01
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 3110820978
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ilse Schwidetzky
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-06-01
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 3110820978
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Hermann K. Bleibtreu
Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Glencoe Press
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard H. Steckel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-11-15
Total Pages: 479
ISBN-13: 1108421954
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Represents the largest recorded dataset based on human skeletal remains from archaeological sites across the continent of Europe.
Author: Richard H. Steckel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-10-24
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 1108390048
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Using human skeletal remains, this volume traces health, workload and violence in the European population over the past 2,000 years. Health was surprisingly good for people who lived during the early Medieval Period. The Plague of Justinian of the sixth century was ultimately beneficial for health because the smaller population had relatively more resources that contributed to better living conditions. Increasing population density and inequality in the following centuries imposed an unhealthy diet - poor in protein - on the European population. With the onset of the Little Ice Age in the late Middle Ages, a further health decline ensued, which was not reversed until the nineteenth century. While some aspects of health declined, other attributes improved. During the early modern period, interpersonal violence (outside of warfare) declined possibly because stronger states and institutions were able to enforce compromise and cooperation. European health over the past two millennia was hence multifaceted in nature.
Author: Silvana Condemi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2011-03-23
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9400704925
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since the Western world first became aware of the existence of Neanderthals, this Pleistocene human has been a regular focus of interest among specialists and also among the general public. In fact, we know far more about Neanderthals than we do about any other extinct human population. Furthermore, over the past 150 years no other palaeospecies has been such a constant source of discussion and fierce debate among palaeoanthropologists and archaeologists. This book presents the status of our knowledge as well as the methods and techniques used to study this extinct population and it suggests perspectives for future research.
Author: Aleksandar Boskovic
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 3643905076
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The social lives of the peoples of the Balkans have long stimulated the imaginations of their northern European neighbors. These peoples and places have anthropological traditions of their own, shaped initially by nationalist movements and, later, by socialism and other political constraints. From an anthropological perspective, this book explores the region between Greece and Slovenia, when political pressures were strongest in the era of the Cold War. Yet, the environments were by no means uniformly repressive. The study provides indispensable insights for new generations pursuing innovative research agendas in this region in the new century. It raises deeper issues about the boundaries and substance of the anthropological endeavor. (Series: Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia - Vol. 29)
Author: Beth Alison Schultz Shook
Publisher:
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781931303811
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Cathy Willermet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-11-14
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1108476848
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A critical assessment of how evidence in biological anthropology is discovered, collected and interpreted.
Author: Andrés Barrera-González
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2017-08-01
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1785336088
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In what ways did Europeans interact with the diversity of people they encountered on other continents in the context of colonial expansion, and with the peasant or ethnic ‘Other’ at home? How did anthropologists and ethnologists make sense of the mosaic of people and societies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when their disciplines were progressively being established in academia? By assessing the diversity of European intellectual histories within sociocultural anthropology, this volume aims to sketch its intellectual and institutional portrait. It will be a useful reading for the students of anthropology, ethnology, history and philosophy of science, research and science policy makers.