Bioarchaeology: interpreting behavior from the human skeleton

1. Introduction 2. Stress and deprivation during the years of growth and development and adulthood 3. Exposure to infectious pathogens 4. Injury and violent death 5. Activity patterns: Part I. Articular and Muscular Modifications: 6. Activity patterns Part II. Structural Adaptation: 7. Masticatory and nonmasticatory functions: craniofacial adaptations 8. Isotopic and elemental signatures of diet and nutrition 9. Historical dimensions of skeletal variation: tracking genetic relationships 10. Changes and challenges in bioarchaeology References Index.