{"product_id":"9781683404453-mesoamerican-osteobiographies","title":"Mesoamerican Osteobiographies","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRevealing the Lives and Deaths of Ancient Individuals\u003cbr\u003eDrawing from a variety of sites throughout Mesoamerica, this volume presents a collection of osteobiographies, which analyse skeletons and their surroundings alongside historical, archaeological, ethnographic, and other contextual data to better understand the life experiences of individuals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA rapidly growing approach within bioarchaeology that focuses on understanding people of the past in their sociocultural contexts \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing from a variety of sites throughout Mesoamerica, this volume presents a collection of osteobiographies, which analyze skeletons and their surroundings alongside historical, archaeological, ethnographic, and other contextual data to better understand the life experiences of individuals. This approach allows for a focus on the processes by which individual social identities are created, negotiated, and altered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these chapters, contributors address what individual bodies reveal about their societies, what burials can tell us about the ways people were remembered, and what information about disease and health indicates about lifestyles. Each case study compiles a range of available data to gain insights into a specific time and place. Recreating the lives of individuals from locations in Belize, Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras, the volume includes descriptions of everyday activities, the social roles of priests and merchants, memorial practices, and many other spheres of human life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMesoamerican Osteobiographies\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates how the diverse, culturally laden, and complex archaeological record of Mesoamerica can uniquely contribute to bioarchaeology, in part due to the region’s many unusual and elaborate mortuary contexts. The different contributions in this volume show that the osteobiography approach can be integrated into existing research frameworks, both in Mesoamerica and around the world, to answer meaningful biocultural questions about the lives and deaths of ancient people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContributors:\u003c\/strong\u003ePamela Geller   Satoru Murata   Gabriel D. Wrobel   Carolyn Freiwald   Kirsten Green Mink   David W. Mixter   Ricardo Rodas   Dr. Della Cook   Abigail Meza Peñaloza   Ethan C. Hill   Erik Velásquez García   Jack Biggs   Frederico Zurtuche   Mónica Urquizú   John Robb   María Belén Méndez Bauer   DR Vera Tiesler   Dr. Andrew K. Scherer   DR Melissa S. Murphy   Lourdes Marquez Morfín   Ana Maria Padilla Dorantes   Dr. Andrea Cucina   Paige Wojcik Woolfolk   Eleanor Harrison-Buck   Claire Ebert   Aurora Marcela Pérez-Flórez   Destiny Micklin   Morgan McKenna   Allan Ortega-Muñoz   Kara Fulton   Lexi O'Donnell   Peter Mercier   Omar A. Alcover-Firpi   Mariah Biggs   Prof Jane Buikstra   Katherine Miller Wolf   Keith Prufer   Jaime Awe   D. Eli Mrak   Emily Moes   Douglas J. Kennett   Joshua T. Schnell   Amy Hair   Takeshi Inomata   Mónica Rodriguez Pérez   Ellen Bell   Daniela Triadan   Samantha Sharon Negrete Gutiérrez   Alex Garcia-Putnam   Anna C. Novotny   Marie Danforth   Lisa LeCount   Loa P. Traxler   Rosalba Yasmin Cifuentes Argüello   Shintaro Suzuki   Fernando Gutiérrez Méndez   Samantha Blatt   Mark Robinson   Amy Michael   Sandra Elizalde\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55434448142710,"sku":"9781683404453","price":113.52,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_38264206_62d67496-8061-44e4-b1ec-2345952d3984.jpg?v=1763862681","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781683404453-mesoamerican-osteobiographies","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}