BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE:WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED FROMHUMAN SKELETAL REMAINS -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION TO BIOARCHAEOLOGY:HISTORY TO PRESENT -- 1.1. INTRODUCTION TO BIOARCHAEOLOGY -- 1.2. HISTORY OF BIOARCHAEOLOGY -- 1.3. RESEARCH TRENDS IN BIOARCHAEOLOGY -- Key Terms -- Chapter Questions -- BONE BIOLOGY AND HUMAN OSTEOLOGY: BASICSTO UNDERSTANDING OSTEOLOGICAL RESEARCH -- Key Terms -- Chapter Questions -- RECONSTRUCTING ACTIVITY PATTERNS:MAKING DEAD PEOPLE MOVE -- 3.1. INTRODUCTION TO RECONSTRUCTING ACTIVITY PATTERNS -- 3.2. WOLFF'S LAW AND BONE REMODELING -- 3.3. CROSS-SECTIONAL DATA -- Cross-sectional Studies -- Cross-sectional Asymmetry Studies -- 3.4. Use of Muscle Marker Data -- 3.5. Osteoarthritis Scores: Use of Joints and Activities -- 3.6. STRESS FRACTURES AS ACTIVITY INDICATORS:VERTEBRAL COLUMN TRAITS -- Schmorl's Nodes -- Spondylolysis -- 3.7. Miscellaneous Other Methods to Reconstruct Activity -- 3.8. Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Chapter Questions -- HEALTH AND DISEASE: UNDERSTANDINGMORBIDITY FROM THE SKELETON -- 4.1. INTRODUCTION TO DISEASES OF THE PASTCOMPARED TO THE PRESENT -- 4.2. GENERAL INDICATORS OF STRESS -- 4.3. SPECIFIC INDICATORS OF STRESS -- Vitamin D Deficiency -- Iron Deficiency -- 4.4. DENTAL DISEASE -- 4.5. INFECTIOUS DISEASES: PARASITES, BACTERIA, AND VIRUSES -- Specific Infectious Agents (Syphilis, Tuberculosis, and Leprosy) -- General Infectious Agents -- 4.6. Congenital Diseases and other Miscellaneous Pathologies -- Cancer -- 4.7. Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Chapter Questions -- TRAUMA: ACCIDENTS, VIOLENCE, AND SURGERY -- 5.1. INTRODUCTION TO TRAUMA ANALYSES -- 5.2. ACCIDENTAL AND ACTIVITY-RELATED FRACTURES -- 5.3. EVIDENCE OF VIOLENCE AND ITS ROOTS -- 5.4. SURGICAL PROCEDURES -- 5.5. CHAPTER SUMMARY -- Key Terms -- Chapter Questions -- CULTURAL MODIFICATION:AESTHETICS OF THE PAST.

6.1. INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL MODIFICATION -- 6.2. DENTAL DECORATION -- 6.3. CRANIAL DEFORMATION -- 6.4. CANNIBALISM -- 6.5. CHAPTER SUMMARY -- Key Terms -- Chapter Questions -- DIET: FOODS OF PAST POPULATIONS -- 7.1. INTRODUCTION TO TECHNIQUES USED TO RECONSTRUCT DIET -- 7.2. OCCLUSAL WEAR DATA -- 7.3. ISOTOPIC ELEMENTS AND OTHER ANALYSES -- 7.4. CRANIAL INDICATORS OF DIET -- 7.5. CHAPTER SUMMARY -- Key Terms -- Chapter Questions -- BIOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS:WHO IS RELATED TO WHOM -- 8.1. INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIPSAND THEIR MEANINGS -- 8.2. DENTAL AND CRANIAL TRAITS -- Dental Morphology -- Metric and Discrete Cranial Traits -- 8.3. ADNA STUDIES -- 8.4. CHAPTER SUMMARY -- Key Terms -- Chapter Questions -- THE FUTURE OF BIOARCHAEOLOGY:WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE -- 9.1. INTRODUCTION TO THE FUTURE OF BIOARCHAEOLOGY -- 9.2. NAGPRA AND RELIGION -- 9.2. NAGPRA AND LOSS OF SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES -- 9.3. POPULARITY OF BIOARCHAEOLOGY -- 9.4. ADVANCES IN THE FIELD -- APPENDIX: SKELETAL ANATOMY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.