Bodies of Evidence

A group of contributors highlight advances made in paleopathology and demography through the analyses of historic cemeteries. These advancements include associations of documentary evidence with skeletal evaluations, insights into history gained through the use of skeletal analyses when no documentation exists and applications of new evaluative techniques. Provides a glimpse into the problems faced by researchers embarking on the excavation and/or analysis of historic human remains.

Partial table of contents: ISSUES AND CONSIDERATIONS. Politics, Law, Pragmatics, and Human Burial Excavations: An Examplefrom Northern California (L. Goldstein). Historic Cemetery Analysis: Practical Considerations (D.Ubelaker). THE ASSESSMENT OF DEMOGRAPHIC PATTERNS. A Piece of Chicago's Past: Exploring Subadult Mortality in theDunning Poorhouse Cemetery (A. Grauer & E. McNamara). Bones in the Basement: Bioarchaeology of Historic Remains inNonmortuary Contexts (J. Harrington & R. Blakely). RECONSTRUCTING PATTERNS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE. Cross Homestead: Life and Death on the Midwestern Frontier (C.Larsen, et al.). Dental Pathologies Among Inmates of the Monroe County Poorhouse (R.Sutter). Nitrogen Isotope Evidence for Weaning Age in a Nineteenth CenturyCanadian Skeletal Sample (M. Katzenberg & S. Pfeiffer). Index.