Bioarchaeology of Populations: Understanding Adaptation and Resilience

摘要: Analysis of individual skeletal remains can reveal much about that individual’s biocultural life history, while the context burial how living dealt with dead. When bioarchaeologists have access to larger collections human represent a group is part culturally distinctive community, then population-level analysis be undertaken. Populations offer quantitative data provides information on well or society adapting local and regional conditions, they adapted over time, frequencies disease trauma in one compared across regions. Examples are provided illuminate different aspects adaptation resilience explored at population level.