The study of teeth is an important key to the biology and culture of past and living populations. Their extreme hardness, their numerous and highly heritable characteristics ...

In explaining just what the archaeologist can reliably deduce about past societies from the study of bones and other human remains, Dr Waldron carefully avoids over-technical ...

With a wide range of scholars assessing, this book offers a comprehensive and modern analysis of the archaeological record of both precontact and postcontact history in the ...