Author: Larsen, Clark Spencer.
Title: Skeletons in our Closet: Revealing our Past through Bioarchaeology
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (2000). orig. cloth. 24x16cm, xvii,248 pp. photos,illus,diagrs,maps. Minor rubbing. Small tear to half-title. VG. ¶ Contents: Tales from the Dead: What Bones Tell Us about Our Past, and Why We Should Know; The Lives and Lifestyles of Ancient Hunter-Gatherers: ' Poor, nasty, brutish and short' in the American Great Basin?; Skeletons from Stillwater: Good Times and Bad Times; From Foraging to Farming: A Regional Perspective; Going Global: Bioarchaeology of the Foraging-to- Farming Transition; Europeans Arrive: Circumstances and Settings for Native Population Collapse in the Americas; Bioarchaeology of Population Decline and Extinction in Spanish Florida; Sot-Weed to Sangamo: Life and Death in Frontier North America; On to Sangamo Country: Colonizing the Midwest; Life's Transitions: The Bioarchaelogical past. Publishers description: [The dead tell no tales. Or do they? In this fascinating book,Clark Spencer Larsen shows that the dead can speak to us--about their lives, and ours--through the remarkable insights of bioarchaeology, which reconstructs the lives and lifestyles of past peoples based on the study of skeletal remains. The human skeleton is an amazing storehouse of information. It records the circumstances of our growth and development as reflected in factors such as disease, stress, diet, nutrition, climate, activity, and injury. Bioarchaeologists, by combining the methods of forensic science and archaeology, along with the resources of many other disciplines (including chemistry, geology, physics, and biology), "read" the information stored in bones to understand what life was really like for our human ancestors. They are unearthing some surprises...]

Keywords: Bioarchaeology, Archaeology, Skeleton, Analysis, Population, History, Geography, Human Remains, Biology Archeology