The first comprehensive global history of the discipline of paleopathology

Presents data from nineteen different regions before, during, and after agricultural transitions, analyzing populations in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe

A Companion to Paleopathology offers a comprehensive overview of this rapidly growing sub- field of physical anthropology. Presents a broad overview of the fiel

The development of agriculture has often been described as the most important change in all of human history. Volume 2 of the Cambridge World History series exp

Our bones can reveal fascinating information about how we have lived, from the food we have eaten to our levels of activity and the infections and injuries we h