Man Bạc the excavation of a neolithic site in northern Vietnam : the biology

Introduction: Man Bac Biological Research Objectives / Hirofumi Matsumura and Marc F. Oxenham -- The Demographic Profile of the Man Bac Cemetery Sample / Kate M. Domett and Marc F. Oxenham -- Quantitative Cranio-Morphology at Man Bac / Hirofumi Matsumura -- Qualitative Cranio-Morphology at Man Bac / Yukio Dodo -- Quantitative and Qualitative Dental-Morphology at Man Bac / Hirofumi Matsumura -- Quantitative Limb Bone-Morphology at Man Bac / Hirofumi Matsumura [and others] -- Palaeohealth at Man Bac / Marc F. Oxenham and Kate M. Domett -- Mitochondrial DNA of Human Remains at Man Bac / Ken-ichi Shinoda -- Faunal Remains at Man Bac / Junmei Sawada, Nguyen Kim Thuy and Nguyen Anh Tuan -- Fish Remains at Man Bac / Takeji Toizumi, Nguyen Kim Thy and Junmei Sawada -- Man Bac: Regional, Cultural and Temporal Context / Marc F. Oxenham and Hirofumi Matsumura -- Appendixes -- Man Bac Burial Descriptions / Damien G. Huffer and Trinh Hoang Hiep -- The Man Bac Burial Pottery -- An Illustrated Corpus of the Whole Vessels from the Burials in Cultural Unit III / Nguyen Kim Dung [and others] -- Individual Descriptions of Human Skeletal Remains at Man Bac: 2005 and 2007 Series / Hirofumi Matsumura, Nguyen Lan Cuong and Damien G. Huffer.

"The site of Man Bac in the Red River Delta of Vietnam, one of the most meticulously excavated and carefully analysed of Southeast Asian archaeological sites in the past few years, is emerging as a key site in the region. This book carefully analyses the human and animal remains and puts them into context. The authors describe in detail the health status, the unusual demographic profile and the interestingly divergent affinities of the cemetery population, and discuss their meaning, particularly in association with evidence for the use of marine and terrestrial animal resources; they argue convincingly that the site documents a time when the face of the region's population was undergoing a fundamental shift, associated with a changing economic subsistence base."--Publisher's description.