Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton

Rating:
Summary: A highly recommended text
Review: "Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton will become a leader in the field for texts in the discipline. The editors have collected together key workers and focused on major areas of study and developments in techniques of analysis. Underpinning and preceding the main chapters has been the very important consideration of the ethics surrounding the analysis of human remains, somehting that is often ignored in similar texts. The thoroughness in which the authors have tackled their subjects is testament to their status as experts. The text will appeal to staff and students of anthropology, archeology, medical history and a much wider audience in genetics, pathology, histology and statistics. a highly recommended text." --Charlotte Roberts, University of Durham

Rating:
Summary: An excellent guide
Review: "I have adopted this book for my graduate seminar on human osteology. The contributors review their specialties in depth, and explain the pros and cons of the various analytical methods that are current in our field. This is an excellent guide to a very diverse literature." --Della C. Cook, Indiana University

Rating:
Summary: Expert Reviews
Review: "an excellent volume which should be of interest to any skeletal biologist or archaeologist.... It contains a balanced and scholarly treatment of the latest methods in skeletal biological analysis and should quickly become THE fundamental reference work for this field." --Jane Buikstra, University of New Mexico

"This outstanding volume is a must read for students and professionals alike, serving as a major reference source for skeletal biologists, bioarchaeologists, paleopathologists, and others with interests in ancient skeletal remains and the information these remains hold for understanding the history of the human condition." --Clark Spencer Larsen, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Rating:
Summary: A highly recommended text
Review: "Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton will become a leader in the field for texts in the discipline. The editors have collected together key workers and focused on major areas of study and developments in techniques of analysis. Underpinning and preceding the main chapters has been the very important consideration of the ethics surrounding the analysis of human remains, somehting that is often ignored in similar texts. The thoroughness in which the authors have tackled their subjects is testament to their status as experts. The text will appeal to staff and students of anthropology, archeology, medical history and a much wider audience in genetics, pathology, histology and statistics. a highly recommended text." --Charlotte Roberts, University of Durham

Rating:
Summary: An excellent guide
Review: "I have adopted this book for my graduate seminar on human osteology. The contributors review their specialties in depth, and explain the pros and cons of the various analytical methods that are current in our field. This is an excellent guide to a very diverse literature." --Della C. Cook, Indiana University

Rating:
Summary: Comprehensive, Insightful and a Superbly Good Read
Review: This is perhaps one of the most comprehensive treatments of this now broad subject area that I have ever read. The authors are to be applauded for gathering together some of the foremost experts in this field of study and organizing a diverse group of papers into a volume that is not only eminently readable by scientists and laypeople alike, but will also certainly stand as one of the outstanding volumes in biological anthropology for years to come. Professionals, students, and laypeople alike will all find something thought-provoking in this book. Very Highly Recommended.