Overview

A collection of research on migration, diet, and health in the past across a culturally complex regionBioarchaeology of East Asia integrates studies on migration, diet, and diverse aspects of health through the study of human skeletal collections in a region that developed varying forms of agriculture. East Asia’s complex population movements and cultural practices provide biological markers that allow for the testing of multiple hypotheses about interactions in past communities. Exploring the interplay between humans and their environments, this volume considers millet agriculture, mobile pastoralism with limited cereal farming, and rice farming in combination with reliance on marine resources. Many of these rare subsistence strategies are more or less exclusive to East Asia. These advanced contributions will significantly boost collaborative work among bioarchaeologists and other scientists working in the region. A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen.

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Reviews

""Succeeds in providing good coverage of the current state of scientific research on major issues in two broad subject areas in bioarchaeology: (a) population history and interaction, and (b) community health with a focus on diet and disease.""--American Journal of Physical Anthropology ""The range of ecological contexts and subsistence practices, the time depth, and the geographical expanse represented in the book amply demonstrate the important role that studies of Asian prehistory should play in addressing the big questions of human biological history.""--Journal of Anthropological Research ""Extremely useful as a good introduction to the region and as a resource for comparative data for scholars in Asia and the Pacific.""--Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology ""A welcomed compendium to a large anthropological body of research, which had previously lacked data from this historically and culturally diverse region, covering the areas from the western Inner Asian steppes east to Japan, and from Mongolia in the north, south to the tropical Malay Archipelago.""--Anthropos

Author Information

Kate Pechenkina chairs the Department of Anthropology at Queens College of the City University of New York. Marc Oxenham, reader in archaeology and bioanthropology at Australian National University, is the editor of Forensic Approaches to Death, Disaster and Abuse.

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