Theory and Practice in the Bioarchaeology of Care

• Main Author: Tilley, Lorna (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Series: Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.

This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to, and explanation of, the theory and practice of the ‘bioarchaeology of care’, an original, fully theorised and contextualised case study-based approach designed to identify and interpret cases of care provision in prehistory.  The applied me...

Table of Contents:

•  Chapter 1. Introducing a Bioarchaeology of Care
• Chapter 2. The status of archaeological research into care Chapter
• 3. Context for a Bioarchaeology of Care.- Chapter 4.The Origins of Care.-    Chapter 5.Agency, identity and the bioarchaeology of care
•   Chapter 6.The Bioarchaeology of Care Methodology:Stages 1-3
•    Chapter 7.The Bioarchaeology of Care Methodology: Stage 4
•    Chapter 8.Survival against the odds - intensive care in the Vietnamese Neolithic. (Case Study 1)
• Chapter 9.Evidence for care in the Upper Middle Palaeolithic: the cases of La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1 and La Ferrassie 1 (Case Study 2)
• Chapter 10.    Accommodating difference in the British Neolithic: Lanhill Burial 7 and his community (Case Study 3).- Chapter 11.Conclusion: Current Status and Future Directions for the Bioarchaeology of Care.