Bioarchaeology of East Asia: Movement, Contact, Health

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Contents List of Figures vii List of Tables xi Foreword xv Preface xvii 1. Research on Human Skeletal Biology in East Asia: A Historical Overview 1 Kate Pechenkina and Marc Oxenham 2. Human Ecology in Continental and Insular East Asia 28 Kate Pechenkina and Marc Oxenham Part I. Biological Indicators of Population Histories in East Asia 3. The Population History of China and Mongolia from the Bronze Age to the Medieval Period (2500 BC–AD 1500) 61 Christine Lee 4. Mongolian Origins and Cranio-Morphometric Variability: Neolithic to Mongolian Period 85 Tumen Dashtseveg 5. A Nonmetric Comparative Study of Past and Contemporary Mongolian and Northeast Asian Crania 110 Erdene Myagmar 6. Tuberculosis and Population Movement across the Sea of Japan from the Neolithic Period to the Eneolithic 125 Takao Suzuki 7. Biological Connections across the Sea of Japan: A Multivariate Comparison of Ancient and More Modern Crania from Japan, China, Korea, and Southeast Asia 144 Michael Pietrusewsky 8. Population Dispersal from East Asia into Southeast Asia: Evidence from Cranial and Dental Morphology 179 Hirofumi Matsumura and Marc Oxenham Part II. Community Health 9. Conflict and Trauma among Nomadic Pastoralists on China’s Northern Frontier 213 Jacqueline T. Eng and Zhang Quanchao 10. Stresses of Life: A Preliminary Study of Degenerative Joint Disease and Dental Health among Ancient Populations of Inner Asia 246 Michelle L. Machicek and Jeremy J. Beach 11. Dental Wear and Oral Health as Indicators of Diet among the Early Qin People: A Case Study from the Xishan Site, Gansu Province 265 Wei Miao, Wang Tao, Zhao Congcang, Liu Wu, and Wang Changsui 12. Yangshao Oral Health from West to East: Effects of Increasing Complexity and Contacts with Neighbors 288 Kate Pechenkina, Ma Xiaolin, Fan Wenquan, Wei Dong, and Zhang Quanchao 13. Life on the Frontier: The Paleopathology of Human Remains from the Chinese Early Imperial Taojiazhai Mortuary Site 323 Zhang Jinglei 14. Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Systemic Stress during the Agricultural Transition in Prehistoric Japan 344 Daniel H. Temple and Clark Spencer Larsen 15. Change in the Linear Growth of Long Bones with the Adoption of Wet-Rice Agriculture in Japan 368 Kenji Okazaki 16. Trauma and Infectious Disease in Northern Japan: Okhotsk and Jomon 399 Marc Oxenham, Hirofumi Matsumura, and Allison Drake 17. A Paleohealth Assessment of the Shih-san-hang Site from Iron Age Taiwan 417 Liu Chinhsin, John Krigbaum, Tsang Chenghwa, and Liu Yichang 18. Trajectories of Health in Early Farming Communities of East Asia 444 Kate Pechenkina, Ma Xiaolin, and Fan Wenquan 19. East Asian Bioarchaeology: Major Trends in a Temporally, Genetically, and Eco-Culturally Diverse Region 482 Marc Oxenham and Kate Pechenkina List of Contributors 499 Index of Subjects 501 Index of Archaeological Sites and Skeletal Collections 510 ...