{"product_id":"ancient-health-skeletal-indicators-of-agricultural-and-economic-intensification-paperback-softback-9780813044033","title":"Ancient Health; Skeletal Indicators of Agricultural and Economic Intensification (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813044033","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAncient Health\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSkeletal Indicators of Agricultural and Economic Intensification\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMark N. Cohen (Edited by), Gillian M. M. Crane-Kramer (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813044033\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 April 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e464 pages, 13 b\u0026amp;w photos, 81 line drawings, 131 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.3 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm, 0.333 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTwenty years ago Mark Nathan Cohen coedited a collection of essays that set a new standard in using paleopathology to identify trends in health associated with changes in prehistoric technology, economy, demography, and political centralisation. \u003cem\u003eAncient Health\u003c\/em\u003e expands and celebrates that work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Confirming earlier conclusions that human health declined after the adoption of farming and the rise of civilisation, this book greatly enlarges the geographical range of paleopathological studies by including new work from both established and up-and-coming scholars. Moving beyond the western hemisphere and western Eurasia, this collection involves studies from Chile, Peru, Mexico, the United States, Denmark, Britain, Portugal, South Africa, Israel, India, Vietnam, Thailand, China, and Mongolia. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Adding great significance to this volume, the author discusses and successfully rebuts the arguments of the \"\"osteological paradox\"\" that long have challenged work in the area of quantitative paleopathology, demonstrating that the \"\"paradox\"\" has far less meaning than its proponents argue.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580193763608,"sku":"9780813044033","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/ancient-health-skeletal-indicators-of-agricultural-and-economic-intensification-paperback-softback-9780813044033","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}