Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology

Description

This volume gathers research in biological anthropology and osteoarchaeology presented at the 12th annual BABAO conference, held in 2010. The various sections group together papers that: explore how early humans developed as hunter gatherers until they started to farm particular crops; investigate health in past populations; highlight the importance of museums and their curators in preserving, recording, imaging and displaying material that helps us to understand biological anthropology better; showcase new techniques, explaining how they can lead to new discoveries, but also how techniques currently in use can often be improved; and finally, investigate burials in order to understand what people in the past thought was appropriate to do to the bodies of the dead. This volume thus brings together a collection of high-quality biological anthropology research into one place, helping us to appreciate how the different research areas within the field interact and overlap.