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  • Parasites in Past Civilizations and Their Impact upon Health

    by Piers D. Mitchell ...
    Parasites have been infecting humans throughout our evolution. When complex societies developed, the greater population density provided new opportunities for parasites to spread. In this interdisciplinary volume, the author brings his expertise in medicine, archaeology and history to explore the contribution of parasites in causing flourishing past civilizations to falter and decline. By using ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Sanitation, Latrines and Intestinal Parasites in Past Populations

    by Piers D. Mitchell ...
    Sanitation and intestinal health is something we often take for granted today. However, people living in many regions of the developing world still suffer with debilitating diseases due to the lack of sanitation. Despite its clear impact upon health in modern times, sanitation in past populations is a topic that has received surprisingly little attention. This book brings together key experts from ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond

    Autopsy, Pathology and Display

    Edited by Piers Mitchell ...
    Excavations of medical school and workhouse cemeteries undertaken in Britain in the last decade have unearthed fascinating new evidence for the way that bodies were dissected or autopsied in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This book brings together the latest discoveries by these biological anthropologists, alongside experts in the early history of pathology museums in British medical ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

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  • Plagues Upon the Earth

    Disease and the Course of Human History

    by Kyle Harper ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    A sweeping germ’s-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemicsPlagues Upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle Harper explains why humanity’s uniquely dangerous disease pool is rooted deep in our evolutionary past, and why its growth is accelerated by ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Built on Bones

    15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death

    by Brenna Hassett ...
    The city has killed most of your ancestors, and it's probably killing you, too - this book tells you why.Imagine you are a hunter-gatherer some 15,000 years ago. You've got a choice – carry on foraging, or plant a few seeds and move to one of those new-fangled settlements down the valley. What you won't know is that urban life is short and riddled with dozens of new diseases; your children will be ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Climate Change and the Health of Nations

    Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations

    by Anthony McMichael ...
    When we think of climate change, we often picture man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. But natural climate change has occurred throughout human history, and populations have had to adapt to the climate's vicissitudes. Anthony McMichael, a renowned epidemiologist and a pioneer in the field of how human health relates to climate change, is the ideal person to tell this story. ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Economic Zooarchaeology

    Studies in Hunting, Herding and Early Agriculture

    Edited by Peter Rowley-Conwy, Dale Serjeantson, Paul Halstead ...
    Economic archaeology is the study of how past peoples exploited animals and plants, using as evidence the remains of those animals and plants. The animal side is usually termed zooarchaeology, the plant side archaeobotany. What distinguishes them from other studies of ancient animals and plants is that their ultimate aim is to find out about human behaviour – the animal and plant remains are a ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shuffling Nags, Lame Ducks

    The Archaeology of Animal Disease

    by Laszlo Bartosiewicz, Erika Gal ...
    The analysis of animal bone assemblages from archaeological sites provides much valuable data concerning economic and husbandry practices in the past, as well as insights into cultural and symbolic or ritual activity. Animal palaeopathology can identify diseases in archaeozoological assemblages but little interest has been expressed in investigating and understanding the cultural aspects of the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wild Harvest

    Plants in the Hominin and Pre-Agrarian Human Worlds

    Edited by Karen Hardy, Lucy Kubiak Martens ...
    Series series Studying Scientific Archaeology
    Plants are fundamental to life; they are used by all human groups and most animals. They provide raw materials, vitamins and essential nutrients and we could not survive without them. Yet access to plant use before the Neolithic can be challenging. In some places, plant remains rarely survive and reconstructing plant use in pre-agrarian contexts needs to be conducted using a range of different ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Companion to Paleopathology

    Edited by Anne L. Grauer ...
    Series Book 34 - Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
    A Companion to Paleopathology offers a comprehensive overview of this rapidly growing sub- field of physical anthropology.Presents a broad overview of the field of paleopathology, integrating theoretical and methodological approaches to understand biological and disease processes throughout human historyDemonstrates how paleopathology sheds light on the past through the analysis of human and non ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • The Archaeology of Animals

    by Simon J. M. Davis ...
    Ever since the discovery of fossil remains of extinct animals associated with flint implements, bones and other animal remains have been providing invaluable information to the archaeologist. In the last 20 years many archaeologists and zoologists have taken to studying such "archaeofaunal" remains, and the science of "zoo-archaeology" has come into being. What was the nature of the environment in ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Trends in Biological Anthropology 1

    Edited by Karina Gerdau-Radonić, Kathleen McSweeney ...
    This first volume in the series Trends in Biological Anthropology presents 11 papers. The study of modern baboons as proxies to understand extinct hominin species’ diet and the interpretation of skeletal degenerative joint disease on the skeletal remains of extant primates are presented as case studies using methods and standards usually applied to human remains. The methodological theme continues ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus