Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton 2nd Edition
Author(s): M. Anne Katzenberg (Editor), Shelley R. Saunders
Publisher: Wiley-Liss
Publication Date: April 7, 2008
Edition: 2nd
Language: English
Print length: 680 pages
ISBN-10: 0471793728
ISBN-13: 9780471793724
Book Description
"This book is virtually required reading for biologicalanthropologists and will be a useful, up-to-date primer onosteological analyses for a wider audience." —The Quarterly Review of Biology, March 2009
"… a comprehensive guide to the ever-changing disciplineof physical anthropology… provides an in depth introductionto human skeletal biology. The structure of the book makes it easyfor the reader to follow the progression of the field of humanskeletal biology." —PaleoAnthropology, 2009 Issue
The First Edition of Biological Anthropology of the HumanSkeleton is the market-leading reference and textbook on thescientific analysis of human skeletal remains recovered fromarchaeological sites. Now, featuring scores of new or thoroughlyrevised content, this Second Edition provides the mostcomprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the topic available.
Like the previous edition, this Second Edition isorganized into five parts with contributing chapters written byexperts in the field of human skeletal biology: Part One coverstheory and application; Part Two discusses morphological analysesof bone, teeth, and age changes; Part Three reviews prehistorichealth and disease; Part Four examines chemical and geneticanalysis of hard tissues; and Part Five closes with coverage ofquantitative methods and population studies. Each chapter includesa review of recent studies, descriptions of analytical techniquesand underlying assumptions, theory, methodological advances, andspeculation about future research.
New or thoroughly revised content includes:
Techniques in the analysis of human skeletal and dentalremains
Extensive coverage of new technologies, including modernmorphometric techniques
Advances in the field of forensic anthropology
Enhanced discussion of ethical terms regarding the study ofaboriginal peoples' remains where those people are no longer thedominant culture
This book serves as an indispensable research guide tobiological anthropologists, osteologists, paleoanthropologists, andarchaeologists. Now with a stronger focus on teaching complexmaterial to students, this revised edition provides enhanced casestudies and discussions for future directions, making it aninvaluable textbook for advanced undergraduates and graduatestudents in biological anthropology and forensic anthropologyprograms.
Editorial Reviews
Review
"Much expanded, this edited volume amply demonstrated advances that had taken place in less than a decade in histological analyses of bone and tooth, the biomechanics of bone biology, trace element and stable isotope studies, and CT and other imaging approaches." (Journal of Antropological Research, Winter 2009)
"This book is virtually required reading for biological anthropologists and will be a useful, up-to-date primer on osteological analyses for a wider audience." (The Quarterly Review of Biology, March 2009)
"The editors and the individual authors are to be recommended for having produced a volume that skeletal biologists, aspiring and seasoned, can profitably add to their personal libraries." (American Journal of Human Biology, January 2009)
"Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton is a comprehensive guide to the ever-changing discipline of physical anthropology and provides an in depth introduction to human skeletal biology. The structure of the book makes it easy for the reader to follow the progression of the field of human skeletal biology." (PaleoAnthropology, 2009)
From the Back Cover
Advance praise for the Second Edition:
"The substantial widening of the coverage and the inclusion ofissues that have received increased or revitalized researchinterest since publication of the First Edition will provideunrivalled comprehensiveness." —Holger Schutkowski, PhD, University of Bradford,UK
"I enthusiastically recommend the publication of this SecondEdition. It is already an excellent volume and [will] no doubtfind its way into many upper-division courses." —Patricia Lambert, PhD, Utah State University
The First Edition of Biological Anthropology of the HumanSkeleton is the market-leading reference and textbook on thescientific analysis of human skeletal remains recovered fromarchaeological sites. Now, featuring scores of new or thoroughlyrevised content, this Second Edition provides the mostcomprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the topic available.
Like the previous edition, this Second Edition isorganized into five parts with contributing chapters written byexperts in the field of human skeletal biology: Part One coverstheory and application; Part Two discusses morphological analysesof bone, teeth, and age changes; Part Three reviews prehistorichealth and disease; Part Four examines chemical and geneticanalysis of hard tissues; and Part Five closes with coverage ofquantitative methods and population studies. Each chapter includesa review of recent studies, descriptions of analytical techniquesand underlying assumptions, theory, methodological advances, andspeculation about future research.
New or thoroughly revised content includes:
Techniques in the analysis of human skeletal and dentalremains
Extensive coverage of new technologies, including modernmorphometric techniques
Advances in the field of forensic anthropology
Enhanced discussion of ethical terms regarding the study ofaboriginal peoples' remains where those people are no longer thedominant culture
Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton 2nd Edition, SecondEdition serves as an indispensable research guide to biologicalanthropologists, osteologists, paleoanthropologists, andarchaeologists. Now with a stronger focus on teaching complexmaterial to students, this revised edition provides enhanced casestudies and discussions for future directions, making it aninvaluable textbook for advanced undergraduates and graduatestudents in biological anthropology and forensic anthropologyprograms.
About the Author
M. ANNE KATZENBERG, received her Ph.D. inanthropology from the University of Toronto in 1983. She holds auniversity professorship at the University of Calgary(Department ofArchaeology). Her research interests include diet and health inpast peoples, and in particular, she explores the variousapplications of stable isotope analysis to reconstructingpaleodiet, paleodemography, and ecology. She serves on theeditorial board of the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology andis the vice-president of the Paleopathology Association. In 2003,she was elected to the Royal Society of Canada. She serves as aconsultant in forensic anthropology for the Medical Examiner ofAlberta (southern division). Recent publications include“Identification of historical human skeletal remains: a casestudy using skeletal and dental age, history and DNA”International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 2005, with G.Oetelaar, J. Oetelaar, C. Fitzgerald, D. Yang, and S.R. Saunders,and “Skeletal Biology: Great Lakes Area,” Handbookof North American Indians, Volume 3, 2006, edited by D.H.Ubelaker. She is co-editor, with Stanley Ambrose of Close to theBone: Biogeochemical Approaches to Paleodietary Analyses inArchaeology (Plenum Press, 2001).
SHELLEY R. SAUNDERS, received her Ph.D. in anthropologyfrom the University of Toronto in 1977. She is currently aprofessor in the Department of Anthropology, McMaster University,and the director of the McMaster Anthropology Hard Tissue and LightMicroscopy Laboratory. Her research covers microscopic andmacroscopic human dental and skeletal growth and development,dental pathology, and methods of sex and age estimation from teethand bones. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Human Disease andPopulation Origins and is the founder of the McMaster Ancient DNACentre. She is also North American editor of the InternationalJournal of Osteoarchaeology and was elected to the RoyalSociety of Canada in 2001. Recent publications include thecoauthored article, “Health of infants in an Imperial Romanskeletal sample: perspective from dental microstructure,”American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2006, and“Sexual dimorphism of the dental tissues in human permanentmandibular canines and first premolars,” American Journalof Physical Anthropology, 2007, with A.H.W. Chan, B. Kahlon,H.F. Kluge, and C.M. FitzGerald.
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