Bioarchaeology of frontiers and borderlands / edited by Cristina I. Tica and Debra L. Martin ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen

• HerausgeberIn: Tica, Cristina I.; Martin, Debra L.
• VerfasserIn eines Vorworts: Larsen, Clark Spencer 1952-
• Place / Publishing House: Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2019]; © 2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives
• Physical Description: xv, 295 Seiten; Illustrationen, Karten; 25 cm
• Notes: Literaturangaben

This edited volume presents a series of cases addressing how living on or interacting with the frontier can affect health and socioeconomic status. This book aims to explore how different groups stuck in these zones were affected, how they interacted with the different worlds, how they lived their lives on the "edge". This volume also aims to emphasize the ways that frontiers and borderlands are liminal zones that demand a reconceptualization of many of our most deeply held assumptions about the relationships between people-place identity and culture

Table of Contents

Introduction: Bioarchaeology and the study of frontiers / Cristina I. Tica and Debra L. Martin -- Part I. The complexity and liminality of the frontier. 1. Across the river : Romanized "barbarians" and barbarized "Romans" on the edge of the empire (third-sixth centuries CE) / Cristina I. Tica ; 2. Funerary practice and local interaction on the imperial frontier, first century CE : a case study in the ŞƏrur [Ş[schwa]rur] Valley, Azerbaijan / Selin E. Nugent ; 3. Queering prehistory on the frontier : a bioarchaeological investigation of gender in Mierzanowice culture communities of the early Bronze Age / Mark P. Toussaint -- Part II. Movement across borders. 4. Isotopes, migration, and sex : investigating the mobility of the frontier inhabitants of Roman Egypt / Amanda T. Groff and Tosha L. Dupras ; 5. Temporal and spatial biological kinship variation at Campovalano and Alfedena in Iron Age central Italy / Evan Muzzall and Alfredo Coppa --

Part III. Adaptability and resilience on the frontier. 6. Living on the border : health and identity during Egypt's colonization of Nubia in the New Kingdom period / Katie Marie Whitmore, Michele R. Buzon, and Stuart Tyson Smith ; 7. Life on the northern frontier : bioarchaeological reconstructions of eleventh-century households in north Iceland / Guðný Zoëga and Kimmarie Murphy -- Part IV. Violence on the frontier. 8. A mass grave outside the walls : the commingled assemblage from Ibida / Andrei Soficaru, Claudia Radu, and Cristina I. Tica ; 9. A line in the sand : bioarchaeological interpretations of life along the borders of the Great Basin and the American Southwest / Aaron R. Woods and Ryan P. Harrod --

Part V. Challenges and limitations of bioarchaeological methods and theory. 10. Mortuary practices in the first Iron Age Romanian frontier : the commingled assemblages of the Măgura Uroiului / Anna J. Osterholtz, Virginia Lucas, Claira Ralston, Andre Gonciar, and Angelica Bălos ; 11. Marginalized motherhood : infant burial in seventeenth-century Transylvania / Jonathan D. Bethard, Anna J. Osterholtz, Nyárádi Zsolt, and Andre Gonciar -- Conclusion: The future of bioarchaeology and studies at the edges / Cristina I. Tica