viiContents

Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Section I
People and Projects: Early Landmarks in American Bioarchaeology

Introduction

Chapter 1
A Historical Introduction

Jane E. Buikstra

Chapter 2
The Old Physical Anthropology and the New World: A Look at the Accomplishments of an Antiquated Paradigm

Della Collins Cook

viiiChapter 3
The Changing Role of Skeletal Biology at the Smithsonian

Douglas H. Ubelaker

Chapter 4
Kidder, Hooton, Pecos, and the Birth of Bioarchaeology

Lane Anderson Beck

Chapter 5
Hemenway, Hrdlička, and Hawikku: A Historical Perspective on Bioarchaeological Research in the American Southwest

Gordon F. M. Rakita

Chapter 6
A New Deal for Human Osteology

George R. Milner and Keith P. Jacobi

Chapter 7
Invisible Hands: Women in Bioarchaeology

Mary Lucas Powell, Della Collins Cook, Georgieann Bogdan, Jane E. Buikstra, Mario M. Castro, Patrick D. Horne, David R. Hunt, Richard T. Koritzer, Sheila Ferraz Mendonça de Souza, Mary Kay Sandford, Laurie Saunders, Glaucia Aparecida Malerba Sene, Lynne Sullivan, and John J. Swetnam

Section II
Emerging Specialties

Introduction

ixChapter 8
Behavior and the Bones

Osbjorn M. Pearson and Jane E. Buikstra

Chapter 9
A Brief History of Paleodemography from Hooton to Hazards Analysis

Susan R. Frankenberg and Lyle W. Konigsberg

Chapter 10
A Post-Neumann History of Biological and Genetic Distance Studies in Bioarchaeology

Lyle W. Konigsberg

Chapter 11
The Evolution of American Paleopathology

Della Collins Cook and Mary Lucas Powell

Chapter 12
The Dentist and the Archeologist: The Role of Dental Anthropology in North American Bioarcheology

Jerome C. Rose and Dolores L. Burke

Section III
On to the 21st Century

Introduction

xChapter 13
The Changing Face of Bioarchaeology: An Interdisciplinary Science

Clark Spencer Larsen

Chapter 14
Mortuary Analysis and Bioarchaeology

Lynne Goldstein

Chapter 15
Repatriation and Bioarchaeology: Challenges and Opportunities

Jane E. Buikstra

Chapter 16
A View from Afar: Bioarchaeology in Britain

Charlotte A. Roberts

Glossary of Acronyms

Bibliography

Index