Egyptian Bioarchaeology : Humans, Animals, and the Environment / edited by Salima Ikram, Jessica Kaiser and Roxie Walker.

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This book consists of a series of essays that explore how ancient plant, animal, and human remains should be studied, and how, when they are integrated with texts, images, and artefacts, they can contribute to our understanding of the history, environment, and culture of ancient Egypt in a holistic manner. Topics covered in this volume relating to human remains include analyses of royal, elite and poor cemeteries of different eras, case studies on specific mummies, identification of different diseases in human remains, an overview of the state of palaeopathology in Egypt, how to analyse burials to establish season of death, the use of bodies to elucidate life stories, the potential of visceral remains in identifying individuals as well as diseases that they might have had, and a protocol for studying mummies. Faunal remains are represented by a study of a canine cemetery and a discussion of cat species that were mummified, and dendroarchaeology is represented by an overview of its potentials and pitfalls for dating Egyptian remains and revising its chronology. Leading international specialists from varied disciplines including physical anthropology, radiology, archaeozoology, Egyptology, and dendrochronology have contributed to this groundbreaking volume of essays that will no doubt provide much fodder for thought, and will be of interest to scholars and laypeople alike.

Abstracts; Preface; Burials under the Temple of Millions of Years of Amenhotep II -- 19Luxor, West Thebes; Bioarchaeology, TT 65 Project, Hungarian Mission in Thebes; The Bioarchaeology of Akhetaten: Unexpected Results from a Capital City; Birth in Ancient Egypt: Timing, Trauma, and Triumph? Evidence from the Dakhleh Oasis; Studying Egyptian Mummies in the Field; A Case of Metastatic Carcinoma in an Old Kingdom-Period Skeleton from Saqqara; Study of Growth Arrest Lines upon Human Remains from Kharga Oasis.

From Egypt to Lithuania: Marija Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė's Mummy and its Radiological InvestigationCanopic Jars: A New Source for Old Questions; A Decade of Advances in the Paleopathology of the Ancient Egyptians; Resolving a Mummy Mismatch; The People of Sayala During the Late Roman to Early Byzantine Period; Royal Musical Chairs: To Whom Does the New Pyramid in Saqqara Belong?; "Behind Every Mask there is a Face, and Behind that a Story." Egyptian Bioarchaeology and Ancient Identities; Dogs at El Deir.

Feline Descendant of the Red or the Black Land: A Multidisciplinary Investigation of an unusually largeAncient Egyptian Cat MummyCarolin Johansson, GeoffreyThe Potential of Dendrochronology in Egypt: Understanding Ancient Human/Environment Interactions; Bibliography.

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