The bioarchaeology of the human head : decapitation, decoration, and deformation
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Bonogofsky, Michelle.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
2011.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xix, 323 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past
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| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 11 Datensätze |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Contextualizing the human head : an introduction / Michelle Bonogofsky
- Heads as memorials and status symbols : the collection and use of skulls in the Torres Strait Islands / Heather Bonney and Margaret Clegg
- Melanesian modeled skulls, mortuary ritual, and dental X-rays : ancestors, enemies, women, and children / Michelle Bonogofsky and Jeremy Graham
- Marquesan trophy skulls : description, osteological analyses, and changing motivations in the South Pacific / Frédérique Valentin and Noémie Rolland
- The social lives of severed heads : skull collection and display in medieval and early modern Ireland / Barra O'Donnabhain
- Identifying the origins of decapitated male skeletons from 3 Driffield Terrace, York, through isotope analysis : reflections of the cosmopolitan nature of Roman York in the time of Caracalla / Janet Montgomery, Christopher J. Knüsel, and Katie Tucker
- Biohistory and cranial morphology : a forensic case from Spanish colonial Georgia / Christopher M. Stojanowski and William N. Duncan
- Skull deformation during the Iron Age in the Trans-Urals and western Siberia / Svetlana Sharapova and Dmitry Razhev
- Marking ethnicity through premortem cranial modification among the pre-Inca Chiribaya, Peru / María Cecilia Lozada
- Getting a head start in life : pre-Columbian Maya cranial modification from infancy to ancestorhood / Pamela L. Geller
- How the Wari fashioned trophy heads for display : a distinctive modified cranium from Cuzco, Peru, and comparison to trophies from the capital region / Valerie A. Andrushko
- Nasca trophy head origins and ancient DNA / Kathleen Forgey.
