The bioarchaeology of the human head: decapitation, decoration, and deformation / ed. by M.Bonogofsky. - Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011. - x, 323 p.: ill. - Incl. bibl. ref. - Ind.: p.309-323. - ISBN 978-0-8130-3556-7  Место хранения:   088 | Институт археологии и этнографии СО РАН | Новосибирск | Библиотека

Оглавление / Contents

List of Figures ............................................... vii List of Tables ................................................. xi Foreword ..................................................... xiii Preface ...................................................... xvii 1 Contextualizing the Human Head: An Introduction .............. 1 Michelle Bonogofsky PART I. SYMBOLIC AND CONTEXTUAL APPROACHES 2 Heads as Memorials and Status Symbols: The Collection and Use of Skulls in the Torres Strait Islands .................. 51 Heather Bonney and Margaret Clegg 3 Melanesian Modeled Skulls, Mortuary Ritual, and Dental X-Rays: Ancestors, Enemies, Women, and Children ............. 67 Michelle Bonogofsky and Jeremy Graham 4 Marquesan Trophy Skulls: Description, Osteological Analyses, and Changing Motivations in the South Pacific ..... 97 Frédérique Valentin and Noémie Rolland 5 The Social Lives of Severed Heads: Skull Collection and Display in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland ............... 122 Barra O'Donnabhain PART II. BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL APPROACHES 6 Identifying the Origins of Decapitated Male Skeletons from 3 Driffield Terrace, York, through Isotope Analysis: Reflections of the Cosmopolitan Nature of Roman York in the Time of Caracalla ...................................... 141 Janet Montgomery, Christopher J. Knüsel, and Katie Tucker 7 Biohistory and Cranial Morphology: A Forensic Case from Spanish Colonial Georgia ................................... 179 Christopher M. Stojanowski and William N. Duncan 8 Skull Deformation during the Iron Age in the Trans-Urals and Western Siberia ........................................ 202 Svetlana Sharapova and Dmitry Razhev 9 Marking Ethnicity through Premortem Cranial Modification among the Pre-Inca Chiribaya, Peru ......................... 228 María Cecilia Lozada 10 Getting a Head Start in Life: Pre-Columbian Maya Cranial Modification from Infancy to Ancestorhood .................. 241 Pamela L. Geller 11 How the Wari Fashioned Trophy Heads for Display: A Distinctive Modified Cranium from Cuzco, Peru, and Comparison to Trophies from the Capital Region ............. 262 Valerie A. Andrushko 12 Nasca Trophy Head Origins and Ancient DNA .................. 286 Kathleen Forgey List of Contributors .......................................... 307 Index ......................................................... 309