Zakrzewski, Sonia (2017) Skeletal morphology and social structure in Ancient Egypt: hierarchy, gender, body shape, and limb proportion (4000-1900 BC). In, Klaus, Haagen D., Harvey, Amanda R. and Cohen, Mark N. (eds.) Bones of Complexity: Bioarchaeological Case Studies of Social Organization and Skeletal Biology. (Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives) Gainesville. University Press of Florida, pp. 111-140.
Abstract
This chapter develops a bioarchaeological model of understanding how gross skeletal morphology may reveal social structures within a state-level population. Using a series of temporally successive skeletal samples from Egypt, aspects of the development of hierarchy are explored through their impact upon the skeletal biology of both sex and gender differentiations. Given that bioarchaeological research project budgets are often limited, aspects of social differentiation and their potential study through traditional (and thus cost-effective) osteological methods is also explored.
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