Paleopathology in Perspective: Bone Health and Disease through Time
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (687 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0759124426 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 266 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Her publications include Reburying the Past, Bioarchaeological Science, and Introduction to Human Evolution.. Elizabeth Weiss is professor of anthropology at San Jose State University
Our bones can reveal fascinating information about how we have lived, from the food we have eaten to our levels of activity and the infections and injuries we have suffered. Each chapter explains one category of traits and reviews data drawn from both ancient and more contemporary populations to explore how global trait trends have changed over time. Taking a long view of bones, as Weiss clearly demonstrates, provides clues not just about how ancient humans once lived, but also how biology and behavior, lifestyle and health, remain intrinsically linked.. Elizabeth Weiss introduces readers to how lifestyle—in complex interaction with biology, genes, and environment—affects health in this distinctive tour of human osteology, past and present.Centering on health issues that have arisen in the last fifty to sixty years rather than thousa
She utilizes deep time perspectives to cover the ills attendant to our species’ upright posture and advanced age (such as degenerative maladies of the vertebral column and osteoarthritis) as well as congenital defects, infectious diseases, and our prospective future health. Buikstra, Arizona State University) . Technical jargon is kept to a minimum, each substantive chapter ends with a concise conclusions section summarizing the main points, and there is an up-to-date and extensive bibliography. It successfully integrates paleopathological and modern biomedical data to provide an overview of how socio-economic and lifestyle factors affect the frequency of bone and dental diseases from prehistory to the present day. This book is an important