M. Anne Katzenberg & Shelley R. Saunders 
Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton 

‘This book is virtually required reading for biologicalanthropologists and will be a useful, up-to-date primer onosteological analyses for a wider audience.’
–The Quarterly Review of Biology, March 2009

‘… a comprehensive guide to the ever-changing disciplineof physical anthropology… provides an in depth introductionto human skeletal biology. The structure of the book makes it easyfor the reader to follow the progression of the field of humanskeletal biology.’
–Paleo Anthropology, 2009 Issue

The First Edition of Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton is the market-leading reference and textbook on thescientific analysis of human skeletal remains recovered fromarchaeological sites. Now, featuring scores of new or thoroughlyrevised content, this Second Edition provides the mostcomprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the topic available.

Like the previous edition, this Second Edition isorganized into five parts with contributing chapters written byexperts in the field of human skeletal biology: Part One coverstheory and application; Part Two discusses morphological analysesof bone, teeth, and age changes; Part Three reviews prehistorichealth and disease; Part Four examines chemical and geneticanalysis of hard tissues; and Part Five closes with coverage ofquantitative methods and population studies. Each chapter includesa review of recent studies, descriptions of analytical techniquesand underlying assumptions, theory, methodological advances, andspeculation about future research.

New or thoroughly revised content includes:
* Techniques in the analysis of human skeletal and dentalremains
* Extensive coverage of new technologies, including modernmorphometric techniques
* Advances in the field of forensic anthropology
* Enhanced discussion of ethical terms regarding the study ofaboriginal peoples’ remains where those people are no longer thedominant culture

This book serves as an indispensable research guide tobiological anthropologists, osteologists, paleoanthropologists, andarchaeologists. Now with a stronger focus on teaching complexmaterial to students, this revised edition provides enhanced casestudies and discussions for future directions, making it aninvaluable textbook for advanced undergraduates and graduatestudents in biological anthropology and forensic anthropologyprograms.

Table of Content

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION (M. ANNE KATZENBERG AND SHELLEY R.SAUNDERS).

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION (M. ANNE KATZENBERG AND SHELLEY R.SAUNDERS).

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

CONTRIBUTORS.

FOREWORD (JANE E. BUIKSTRA).

PART: I THEORY AND APPLICATION IN STUDIES OF PASTPEOPLES.

1. Bioarchaeological Ethics: A Historical Perspective on the Value of Human Remains (Phillip L. Walker).

2. Forensic Anthropology: Methodology and Diversity of Applications (Douglas H. Ubelaker).

3. Taphonomy and the Nature of Archaeological Assemblages (Ann L. W. Stodder).

PART II: MORPHOLOGICAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL ANALYSES.

4. Juvenile Skeletons and Growth-Related Studies (Shelley R.Saunders).

5. Histomorphometry of Human Cortical Bone: Applications to Age Estimation (Alexander G. Robling and Sam D. Stout).

6. Biomechanical Analyses of Archaeological Human Skeletons(Christopher B. Ruff).

7. Morphometrics and Biological Anthropology in the Postgenomic Age (Benedikt Hallgrímsson, Miriam Leah Zelditch, Trish E.Parsons, Erika Kristensen, Nathan M. Young, and Steven K.Boyd).

8. Reading Between the Lines: Dental Development and Subadult Age Assessment Using the Microstructural Growth Markers of Teeth(Charles M. Fitz Gerald and Jerome C. Rose).

9. Dental Morphology (G. Richard Scott).

PART III: PREHISTORIC HEALTH AND DISEASE.

10. Dental Pathology (Simon Hillson).

11. Analysis and Interpretation of Skeletal Trauma (Nancy C.Lovell).

12. Light and Broken Bones: Examining and Interpreting Bone Lossand Osteoporosis in Past Populations (Sabrina C. Agarwal).

PART IV: CHEMICAL AND GENETIC ANALYSES OF HARDTISSUES.

13. Stable Isotope Analysis: A Tool for Studying Past Diet, Demography, and Life History (M. Anne Katzenberg).

14. Bone Chemistry and Trace Element Analysis (James Burton).

15. DNA Analysis of Archaeological Remains (Anne C. Stone).

PART V: QUANTITATIVE METHODS AND POPULATION STUDIES.

16. Metric Analysis of Skeletal Remains: Methods and Applications (Michael Pietrusewsky).

17. Nonmetric Trait Variation in the Skeleton: Abnormalities, Anomalies, and Atavisms (Shelley R. Saunders and Dori L.Rainey).

18. Advances in Paleodemography (George R. Milner, James W.Wood, and Jesper L. Boldsen).

19. Method and Theory in Paleodemography, with an Application toa Hunting, Fishing and Gathering Village from the Late Eastern Woodlands of North America (Richard S. Meindl, Robert P. Mensforth, and C. Owen Lovejoy).

Index .

About the author

M. ANNE KATZENBERG, received her Ph.D. inanthropology from the University of Toronto in 1983. She holds auniversity professorship at the University of Calgary(Department of Archaeology). Her research interests include diet and health inpast peoples, and in particular, she explores the variousapplications of stable isotope analysis to reconstructingpaleodiet, paleodemography, and ecology. She serves on theeditorial board of the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology andis the vice-president of the Paleopathology Association. In 2003, she was elected to the Royal Society of Canada. She serves as aconsultant in forensic anthropology for the Medical Examiner of Alberta (southern division). Recent publications include’Identification of historical human skeletal remains: a casestudy using skeletal and dental age, history and DNA’International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 2005, with G.Oetelaar, J. Oetelaar, C. Fitzgerald, D. Yang, and S.R. Saunders, and ‘Skeletal Biology: Great Lakes Area, ‘ Handbookof North American Indians, Volume 3, 2006, edited by D.H.Ubelaker. She is co-editor, with Stanley Ambrose of Close to the Bone: Biogeochemical Approaches to Paleodietary Analyses in Archaeology (Plenum Press, 2001).

SHELLEY R. SAUNDERS, received her Ph.D. in anthropologyfrom the University of Toronto in 1977. She is currently aprofessor in the Department of Anthropology, Mc Master University, and the director of the Mc Master Anthropology Hard Tissue and Light Microscopy Laboratory. Her research covers microscopic andmacroscopic human dental and skeletal growth and development, dental pathology, and methods of sex and age estimation from teethand bones. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Human Disease and Population Origins and is the founder of the Mc Master Ancient DNACentre. She is also North American editor of the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology and was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2001. Recent publications include thecoauthored article, ‘Health of infants in an Imperial Romanskeletal sample: perspective from dental microstructure, ‘American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2006, and’Sexual dimorphism of the dental tissues in human permanentmandibular canines and first premolars, ‘ American Journalof Physical Anthropology, 2007, with A.H.W. Chan, B. Kahlon, H.F. Kluge, and C.M. Fitz Gerald.