Human Biologists in the Archives: Demography, Health, Nutrition and Genetics in Historical Populations

Book Overview

Many physical anthropologists study populations using data that come primarily from the historical record. For this volume's authors, the classic anthropological 'field' is not the glamour of an exotic locale, but the sometimes tedium of the dusty back rooms of libraries, archives and museum collections. This book tells of the way in which archival data inform anthropological questions about human biology and health. The authors present a diverse...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521801044
• ISBN13: 9780521801041
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"