Bioarchaeology of East Asia

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Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Research on Human Skeletal Biology in East Asia: A Historical Overview
Kate Pechenkina and Marc Oxenham

Chapter 2. Human Ecology in Continental and Insular East Asia
Kate Pechenkina and Marc Oxenham

Part I. Biological Indicators of Population Histories in East Asia

Chapter 3. The Population History of China and Mongolia from the Bronze Age to the Medieval Period (2500 BC–AD 1500)
Christine Lee

Chapter 4. Mongolian Origins and Cranio-Morphometric Variability: Neolithic to Mongolian Period
Tumen Dashtseveg

Chapter 5. A Nonmetric Comparative Study of Past and Contemporary Mongolian and Northeast Asian Crania
Erdene Myagmar

Chapter 6. Tuberculosis and Population Movement across the Sea of Japan from the Neolithic Period to the Eneolithic
Takao Suzuki

Chapter 7. Biological Connections across the Sea of Japan: A Multivariate Comparison of Ancient and More Modern Crania from Japan, China, Korea, and Southeast Asia
Michael Pietrusewsky

Chapter 8. Population Dispersal from East Asia into Southeast Asia: Evidence from Cranial and Dental Morphology
Hirofumi Matsumura and Marc Oxenham

Part II. Community Health

Chapter 9. Conflict and Trauma among Nomadic Pastoralists on China’s Northern Frontier
Jacqueline T. Eng and Zhang Quanchao

Chapter 10. Stresses of Life: A Preliminary Study of Degenerative Joint Disease and Dental Health among Ancient Populations of Inner Asia
Michelle L. Machicek and Jeremy J. Beach

Chapter 11. Dental Wear and Oral Health as Indicators of Diet among the Early Qin People: A Case Study from the Xishan Site, Gansu Province
Wei Miao, Wang Tao, Zhao Congcang, Liu Wu, and Wang Changsui

Chapter 12. Yangshao Oral Health from West to East: Effects of Increasing Complexity and Contacts with Neighbors
Kate Pechenkina, Ma Xiaolin, Fan Wenquan, Wei Dong, and Zhang Quanchao

Chapter 13. Life on the Frontier: The Paleopathology of Human Remains from the Chinese Early Imperial Taojiazhai Mortuary Site
Zhang Jinglei

Chapter 14. Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Systemic Stress during the Agricultural Transition in Prehistoric Japan
Daniel H. Temple and Clark Spencer Larsen

Chapter 15. Change in the Linear Growth of Long Bones with the Adoption of Wet-Rice Agriculture in Japan
Kenji Okazaki

Chapter 16. Trauma and Infectious Disease in Northern Japan: Okhotsk and Jomon
Marc Oxenham, Hirofumi Matsumura, and Allison Drake

Chapter 17. A Paleohealth Assessment of the Shih-san-hang Site from Iron Age Taiwan
Liu Chinhsin, John Krigbaum, Tsang Chenghwa, and Liu Yichang

Chapter 18. Trajectories of Health in Early Farming Communities of East Asia
Kate Pechenkina, Ma Xiaolin, and Fan Wenquan

Chapter 19. East Asian Bioarchaeology: Major Trends in a Temporally, Genetically, and Eco-Culturally Diverse Region
Marc Oxenham and Kate Pechenkina

List of Contributors

Index of Subjects

Index of Archaeological Sites and Skeletal Collections