Emerging Infections 2nd Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Barrett, Ron

Armelagos, George J.

Zuckerman, Molly K.

Dudgeon, Matthew R.

Anthropology

Oxford University Press, USA

A monumental synthesis of a half century of research, this book investigates human remains from three communities from the ancient Nubian civilization of the Nile River Valley: Meinarti, Kulubnarti, and an unnamed shantytown of underclass laborers. The analyses of these surveys chart the evolution of the field of physical anthropology. During the first archaeological expeditions to Nubia in the early nineteenth century, anthropologists set out to identify the races of Nubian peoples during the rise and fall of their civilization, while the second wave of expeditions to Nubia in the 1930s caused a backlash against this racial determinism.
 The analyses at Wadi Halfa, part of the third-wave expeditions to Nubia sponsored by UNESCO in the 1960s, helped inspire the "biocultural approach" to human biology now used by anthropologists worldwide. Life and Death on the Nile, the life's work of two highly accomplished anthropologists, exemplifies the very best of this perspective.
 George Armelagos and Dennis Van Gerven present studies of cranial morphology and evolution in Nubian populations. They look at patterns of physiological stress and disease, as well as growth and development, in infants and children. They study bone fractures and age-related bone loss in adults, and they discuss case studies of diseases such as cancers and congenital defects. Focusing on the link between human biology and the cultural and natural environment, they provide a holistic view of the lives of ancient Nubian peoples.

Life and Death on the Nile: A Bioethnography of Three Ancient Nubian Communities

History

Van Gerven, Dennis P.

Ancient Civilizations

University Press of Florida

Armelagos, George J., Woods, Jr. John T

St. Catherines Island: The Story of People and Place

Biographies & Memoirs

Woods, Jr. John T.

Historical

John T. Woods

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