Bones of complexity : bioarchaeological case studies of social organization and skeletal biology / edited by Haagen D. Klaus, Amanda R. Harvey, and Mark N. Cohen ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen.

This volume examines the various interrelationships between social structures, skeletal biology, and health outcomes in antiquity. Bringing together studies by physical anthropologists, archaeologists, and economists, the volume attempts to gain a better understanding of the potential effects of social complexity on human biology from ancient Egypt to South America.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Human biology in ancient complex societies: some concepts for bioarchaeology / Haagen D. Klaus, Amanda R. Harvey, and Mark N. Cohen -- Growth, stature, and social organization -- -- A bone to pick: using height inequality to test competing hypotheses about political power / Carles Boix and Frances Rosenbluth -- Stature at Tikal revisited / Lori E. Wright and Mario A. Vásquez -- Spytihn?v i (ce 875-915), Duke of Bohemia: an osteobiographic perspective on social status and stature -- In the emerging Czech State / Marshall Joseph Becker -- Complexities of sex and gender -- Skeletal morphology and social structure in ancient Egypt: hierarchy, gender, body shape, and limb -- Proportion (4000-1900 bc) / Sonia Zakrzewski -- Mycenaean hierarchy and gender roles: diet and health inequalities in late bronze age Pylos, Greece / Lynne A. Schepartz, Sharon R. Stocker, Jack L. Davis, Anastasia Papathanasiou, Sari Miller-Antonio, Joanne M.A Murphy, Michael Richards, and Evangelia Malapani -- Health status and burial status in early China / Ekaterina Pechenkina, Ma Xiaolin, and Fan Wenquan -- Skeletons in settings of emergent complexity and stratified societies -- The bioarchaeology of early social complexity in bronze age Spain: skeletal biology and mortuary -- Patterns in the el argar culture / Sylvia A. Jim¿nez-Brobeil and María G. Roca -- The Pigi Athinas Tumuli Cemetery of Macedonian Olympus: burial customs and the bioarchaeology of social structures at the dawn of the late bronze age, Central Macedonia, Greece / Paraskevi Tritsaroli -- A hierarchy of values: the bioarchaeology of order, complexity, health, and trauma at Harappa / Gwen Robbins Schug -- Hopewell hierarchy or heterarchy? The skeleton at the feast / Della Collins Cook, Ruth A. Brinker, Robin Moser Knabel, and Ellen Salter-Pedersen -- Status-based differences in health in the late prehistoric East Tennessee / Tracy K. Betsinger -- Center and satellite: settlement hierarchy and diet on the late prehistoric Mississippi Delta / Nancy A. Ross-Stallings -- Across a spectrum of inequality: hierarchy, health, and culturally sanctioned violence in the precontact U.S. Southwest / Ryan P. Harrod, Debra L. Martin, and Misty Fields -- Hierarchy and urbanism in Pre-Columbian Central Mexico: an initial assessment of biological stress and social structure at Teotihaucan and Monte Alban / Rebecca Storey, Lourdes Márquez Morfín, and Luis Fernando Núñez -- Middle Sicán Mortuary archaeology, skeletal biology, and genetic structures in late pre-hispanic South America / Haagen D. Klaus, Izumi Shimada, Ken-ichi Shinoda, and Sarah Muno -- Bioarchaeology and social complexity: departing reflections and future directions / Haagen D. Klaus, Mark Nathan Cohen, Marie Elaine Danforth, and Amanda R. Harvey.

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