Beyond the Bones: Engaging with Disparate Datasets provides a forum in which anthropology students and scholars wrestle with the fundamental possibilities and limitations in uniting multiple lines of evidence, such as skeletal remains, cemetery reports, ancient DNA, hospital records, clinical datasets, nutritional interviews, and linguistic models. The book is useful for a wide range of academics and graduate students undertaking interdisciplinary research. Examines how disparate datasets are combined using case studies from current researchDraws on multiple sub-disciplines of anthropological research to produce a holistic overview that speaks to anthropology as a disciplineExplores examples drawn from qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research to illustrate the breadth of anthropological work INDICE: Foreword by Dr. Charlotte RobertsChapter 1. Introduction: Beyond the bones in physical anthropologyChapter 2. Missing, presumed dead: Deconstructing 'high' infant mortality with new data sets in historic cemetery populationsChapter 3. Direct digital radiographic imaging of archaeological skeletal assemblages: An advantageous technique and the use of the images as a research resourceChapter 4. 'Readmitted under urgent circumstance': Uniting archives and bioarchaeology at the Royal London HospitalChapter 5. Between the lines: Interpreting disparate data in castration studiesChapter 6. Hunting for pathogens: Ancient DNA and the historical recordChapter 7. The use of linguistic data in bioarchaeological research: An example from the American SouthwestChapter 8. The present informs the past: Incorporating modern clinical data into paleopathological analyses of metabolic bone diseaseChapter 9. Uniting perception and reality in human nutrition: Integration of qualitative and quantitative data to understand consumptionChapter 10. Conclusions and Future Directions
- ISBN: 978-0-12-804601-2
- Editorial: Academic Press
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 168
- Fecha Publicación: 26/05/2016
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés