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Gender, bioarchaeology and human ontogeny

Gender, bioarchaeology and human ontogeny
Gender, bioarchaeology and human ontogeny
Contents
Introduction (Rebecca Gowland and Christopher Knüsel); The intrinsic pattern of preservation of human skeletons and its influence on the interpretation of funerary behaviours (Silvia Bello and Peter Andrews); Pattern in human burial practice (Peter Andrews and Silvia Bello); L'archaeothanatologie ou l'archaeologie de la mort (Henri Duday); Neolithic burial taphonomy, ritual, and interpretation in Britain and Ireland: a review (Jessica Beckett and John Robb); Cremation ... the cheap option? (Jacqueline I McKinley); Companions in death: the roles of animals in Anglo-Saxon and Viking cremation rituals in Britain (Julie M Bond and Fay L Worley); La Tène dietary variation in Central Europe: A stable isotope study of human skeletal remains from Bohemia (John Le Huray, Holger Schutkowski, Mike Richards); Immigrants on the Isle of Lewis - combining traditional funerary and modern isotope evidence to investigate social differentiation, migration and dietary change in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland (Janet Montgomery and Jane A Evans); Ageing the past: examining age identity from funerary evidence (Rebecca Gowland); Gender, bioarchaeology and human ontogeny (Joanna R Sofaer); The gendered skeleton: anthropological interpretations of the bony pelvis (Pamela K Stone and Dana Walrath); The osteology of monasticism in Mediaeval England (Simon Mays); Text, space and the evidence of human remains in English Late Medieval and Tudor disease culture: some problems and possibilities (Isla Fay); 'Of no more use to men than in ages before?': the Investiture Contest as a model for funerary interpretation (Christopher J Knüsel); Skeletal evidence and contexts of violence in the European Mesolithic and Neolithic (Rick Schulting); Beneath the façade: A skeletal model of domestic violence (Shannon Novak); Fragmentation of the body: comestibles, compost, or customary rite? (Christopher J Knüsel and Alan Outram); Altering identities: body modifications and the pre-Columbian Maya (Pamela L Geller); The living dead and the dead living: burials, figurines and social performance in the European Mid Upper Palaeolithic (Paul B Pettitt).
sex, gender, bioarchaeology, ontogeny
1842172115
155-167
Oxbow Books
Sofaer, Joanna
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Gowland, Rebecca
Knüsel, Christopher
Sofaer, Joanna
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Gowland, Rebecca
Knüsel, Christopher

Sofaer, Joanna (2006) Gender, bioarchaeology and human ontogeny. In, Gowland, Rebecca and Knüsel, Christopher (eds.) The Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains. Oxford, UK. Oxbow Books, pp. 155-167.

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Contents
Introduction (Rebecca Gowland and Christopher Knüsel); The intrinsic pattern of preservation of human skeletons and its influence on the interpretation of funerary behaviours (Silvia Bello and Peter Andrews); Pattern in human burial practice (Peter Andrews and Silvia Bello); L'archaeothanatologie ou l'archaeologie de la mort (Henri Duday); Neolithic burial taphonomy, ritual, and interpretation in Britain and Ireland: a review (Jessica Beckett and John Robb); Cremation ... the cheap option? (Jacqueline I McKinley); Companions in death: the roles of animals in Anglo-Saxon and Viking cremation rituals in Britain (Julie M Bond and Fay L Worley); La Tène dietary variation in Central Europe: A stable isotope study of human skeletal remains from Bohemia (John Le Huray, Holger Schutkowski, Mike Richards); Immigrants on the Isle of Lewis - combining traditional funerary and modern isotope evidence to investigate social differentiation, migration and dietary change in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland (Janet Montgomery and Jane A Evans); Ageing the past: examining age identity from funerary evidence (Rebecca Gowland); Gender, bioarchaeology and human ontogeny (Joanna R Sofaer); The gendered skeleton: anthropological interpretations of the bony pelvis (Pamela K Stone and Dana Walrath); The osteology of monasticism in Mediaeval England (Simon Mays); Text, space and the evidence of human remains in English Late Medieval and Tudor disease culture: some problems and possibilities (Isla Fay); 'Of no more use to men than in ages before?': the Investiture Contest as a model for funerary interpretation (Christopher J Knüsel); Skeletal evidence and contexts of violence in the European Mesolithic and Neolithic (Rick Schulting); Beneath the façade: A skeletal model of domestic violence (Shannon Novak); Fragmentation of the body: comestibles, compost, or customary rite? (Christopher J Knüsel and Alan Outram); Altering identities: body modifications and the pre-Columbian Maya (Pamela L Geller); The living dead and the dead living: burials, figurines and social performance in the European Mid Upper Palaeolithic (Paul B Pettitt).

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Published date: 2006
Keywords: sex, gender, bioarchaeology, ontogeny

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Local EPrints ID: 43314
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/43314
ISBN: 1842172115
PURE UUID: 98915df5-0e3e-44ed-b5ac-6de8e09dd73c
ORCID for Joanna Sofaer: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6328-8636

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Date deposited: 22 Jan 2007
Last modified: 23 Jul 2022 01:47

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Author: Joanna Sofaer ORCID iD
Editor: Rebecca Gowland
Editor: Christopher Knüsel

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