The bioarchaeology of the human head : decapitation, decoration, and deformation / edited by Michelle Bonogofsky ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen

Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2011]
Copyright Date: ©2011
Physical Description: xix, 323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Additional Creators: Bonogofsky, Michelle

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Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1.Contextualizing the Human Head: An Introduction / Michelle Bonogofsky -- pt. I SYMBOLIC AND CONTEXTUAL APPROACHES -- 2.Heads as Memorials and Status Symbols: The Collection and Use of Skulls in the Torres Strait Islands / Margaret Clegg -- 3.Melanesian Modeled Skulls, Mortuary Ritual, and Dental X-Rays: Ancestors, Enemies, Women, and Children / Jeremy Graham -- 4.Marquesan Trophy Skulls: Description, Osteological Analyses, and Changing Motivations in the South Pacific / Noemie Rolland -- 5.The Social Lives of Severed Heads: Skull Collection and Display in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland / Barra O'Donnabhain -- pt. II BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL APPROACHES -- 6.Identifying the Origins of Decapitated Male Skeletons from 3 Driffield Terrace, York, through Isotope Analysis: Reflections of the Cosmopolitan Nature of Roman York in the Time of Caracalla / Katie Tucker -- 7.Biohistory and Cranial Morphology: A Forensic Case from Spanish Colonial Georgia / William N. Duncan -- 8.Skull Deformation during the Iron Age in the Trans-Urals and Western Siberia / Dmitry Razhev -- 9.Marking Ethnicity through Premortem Cranial Modification among the Pre-Inca Chiribaya, Peru / Maria Cecilia Lozada -- 10.Getting a Head Start in Life: Pre-Columbian Maya Cranial Modification from Infancy to Ancestorhood / Pamela L. Geller -- 11.How the Wari Fashioned Trophy Heads for Display: A Distinctive Modified Cranium from Cuzco, Peru, and Comparison to Trophies from the Capital Region / Valerie A. Andrushko -- 12.Nasca Trophy Head Origins and Ancient DNA / Kathleen Forgey.

Summary

"Explores the symbolic significance of the human head in cultural, political, economic, and religious ritual across the world"--

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ISBN

9780813035567 (hardback)
0813035562 (hardback)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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