Bioarchaeologists Speak Out Deep Time Perspectives on Contemporary Issues /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Buikstra, Jane E. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Bioarchaeology and Social Theory,
• Subjects: Archaeology.

Bioarchaeologists who study human remains in ancient, historic and contemporary settings are securely anchored within anthropology as anthropologists, yet they have not taken on the pundits the way other subdisciplines within anthropology have. Popular science authors frequently and selectively use...

Table of Contents:

• 1: Bioarchaeologists Speak Out: An Introduction
• 2: Knowing Your Audience: Reactions to the Human Body, Dead and Undead
• 3: Bioarchaeological Evidence for Prehistoric Violence: Use and Misuse in the Popular Media
• 4: Bridging the Precontact and Postcontact Divide in Eastern North America: Prior Conditions Set the Stage for Historic-Period Outcomes
• 5: Misconceptions about the Bioarchaeology of Plague
• 6: Changing The Climate: Bioarchaeology Responds to Deterministic Thinking about Human-Environmental Interactions in the Past
• 7: Stone agers in the Fast-Lane? How bioarchaeologists can address the Paleo Diet myth
• 8: Ancient Migrations: Biodistance, genetics, and the persistence of typological thinking
• 9: Opening up the family tree: promoting more diverse and inclusive studies of family, kinship, and relatedness in Bioarchaeology
• 10: The Fallacy of the Transgender Skeleton
• 11: The Body-as-Evidence Paradigm in Domestic and International Forensic Anthropology
• 12: Contributions of Mummy Science to Public Perception of the Past
• 13: Writing Bioarchaeological Stories to Right Past Wrongs
• 14: Bioarchaeology and the Media: Anthropology SciComm in a Post-Truth Landscape. .