Bioarchaeology of frontiers and borderlands
Title:
Bioarchaeology of frontiers and borderlands
Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives
Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past.
Author:
Tica, Cristina I., editor.
ISBN:
9781683400844
Physical Description:
xv, 295 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Series:
Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives
Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past.
Contents:
Introduction : Bioarchaeology and the study of frontiers / Cristina I. Tica and Debra L. Martin -- Part I. The complexity and liminality of the frontier : Across the river: Romanized "barbarians" and barbarized "Romans" on the edge of the empire (third-sixth centuries CE) / Cristina I. Tica -- Funerary practice and local interaction on the imperial frontier, first century CE: a case study in the Ş¿rur Valley, Azerbaijan / Selin E. Nugent -- Queering prehistory on the frontier: a bioarchaeological investigation of gender in Mierzanowice culture communities of the early Bronze Age / Mark P. Toussaint -- Part II. Movement across borders : Isotopes, migration, and sex: investigating the mobility of the frontier inhabitants of Roman Egypt / Amanda T. Groff and Tosha L. Dupras -- Temporal and spatial biological kinship variation at Campovalano and Alfedena in Iron Age central Italy / Evan Muzzall and Alfredo Coppa -- Part III. Adaptability and resilience on the frontier : Living on the border: health and identity during Egypt's colonization of Nubia in the New Kingdom period / Katie Marie Whitmore, Michele R. Buzon, and Stuart Tyson Smith -- Life on the northern frontier: bioarchaeological reconstructions of eleventh-century households in north Iceland / Guðný Zoëga and Kimmarie Murphy -- Part IV. Violence on the frontier : A mass grave outside the walls: the commingled assemblage from Ibida / Andrei Soficaru, Claudia Radu, and Cristina I. Tica -- A line in the sand: bioarchaeological interpretations of life along the borders of the Great Basin and the American Southwest / Aaron R. Woods and Ryan P. Harrod -- Part V. Challenges and limitations of bioarchaeological methods and theory : Mortuary practices in the first Iron Age Romanian frontier: the commingled assemblages of the Măgura Uroiului / Anna J. Osterholtz, Virginia Lucas, Claira Ralston, Andre Gonciar, and Angelica Bălos -- Marginalized motherhood: infant burial in seventeenth-century Transylvania / Jonathan D. Bethard, Anna J. Osterholtz, Zsolt Nyárádi, and Andre Gonciar -- Conclusion : The future of bioarchaeology and studies at the edges / Cristina I. Tica.
Abstract:
"Frontiers and territorial borders are places of contested power where societies collide, interact, and interconnect. Using bioanthropological case studies from around the world, this volume explores how people in the past created, maintained, or changed their identities while living on the edge between two or more different spheres of influence. Examining a wide range of borderland settings, essays in this volume discuss the mobility of people in Roman Egypt and investigate patterns of genetic difference in Iron Age Italy. They show how social and cultural interactions helped buffer the stressful physical environment of eleventh-century Iceland and describe bioarchaeological evidence of traumatic injuries indicating tension across regional borders in the precontact American Great Basin and Southwest. Contributors look at isotope data, skeletal stress markers, craniometric and dental metric information, mortuary arrangements, and other evidence to examine how frontier life can affect health and socioeconomic status. Illustrating the many meanings and definitions of frontiers and borderlands, they question assumptions about the relationships between people, place, and identity. As national borders continue to ignite controversy in today's society and politics, the research presented here is more important than ever. The long history of people who have lived in borderland areas helps us understand the challenges of adapting to these dynamic and often violent places."-- Back cover.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805:
npmlib 10901984 CC79.5 H85 B544 ysh