ABSTRACT
The biology of people in the past is a rapidly expanding field of historical study. Our capacity to understand the biology of historical populations is experiencing remarkable developments on both theoretical and analytical fronts.
Human Biology and History weaves together the fields of biology, archaeology, and anthropology in an exchange o
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|10 pages
Human biology and history: the scope and scale of interaction
The scope and scale of interaction
chapter 5|22 pages
Isonymy analysis: the potential for application of quantitative analysis of surname distributions to problems in historical research
The potential for application of quantitative analysis of surname distributions to problems in historical research
chapter 9|17 pages
‘Observe: our noses were made to carry spectacles, so we have spectacles’ .
(Dr Pangloss, from Candide by Voltaire)
chapter 10|17 pages
Mines, meals and movement: a human ecological approach to the interface of ‘history and biology’
A human ecological approach to the interface of ‘history and biology’
