“Intended as a supplement and update for Cohen and Armelagos’s classic Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture, Cohen and Crane-Kramer’s volume succeeds on both counts and stands as a valuable contribution to ongoing research of the effects of the momentous changes in subsistence and population size and density on human health throughout the past 10,000 years. . . . The final chapter, the editors’ summation, is a concise gem. . . . Without question, this is a volume that every professional bioarchaeologist should purchase.”—Journal of Anthropological Research
“While Cohen emphasizes a challenge to a paradigm that health improves through time, this collection of papers allows us to see that health in the past did not necessarily decline through time. As Larsen says in his foreword, the papers demonstrate that the trends in the ‘quality of life and well-being . . . are more complex than was previously imagined.’”—Cambridge Archaeological Journal
Mark Nathan Cohen is University Distinguished Teaching Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh. Gillian M. M. Crane-Kramer teaches anthropology at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh.
