Evaluating evidence in biological anthropology : the strange and the familiar / edited by Cathy Willermet, Sang-Hee Lee.
"Biological anthropology is a diverse field, with countless research methods and techniques in different subdisciplines. This book takes a critical perspective to the current state of the field, exploring theory and practice in paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology, and ecology. Contributors challe...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
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2020.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. The Strange and the familiar, new landscapes and theoretical approaches
- 1. Women in human evolution redux
- 2. Hegemony and the central asian paleolithic record, perspectives on pleistocene landscapes and morphological mosaicism
- 3. A anthropology now, how popular science mis characterizes human evolution
- 4. The Strangeness of not eating insects, the loss of an important food source in the United States
- 5. Methods without meaning, moving beyond body counts in research on behavior and health
- Part II. (Re)discovery of evidence. 6. (Re)discovering paleopathology integrating individuals and populations in bioarchaeology
- 7. Parsing the paradox, examining heterogeneous frailty in bioarchaeological assemblages
- 8. Seeing RED, a novel solution to a familiar categorical data problem
- 9. Paleoanthropology and analytical bias, citation practices analytical choice and prioritizing quality over quantity
- 10. (Re)discovering ancient hominin environments, how stable carbon isotopes of modern chimpanzee communities can inform paleoenvironment reconstruction
- 11. Discussion and conclusion, move forward critically.