TY - BOOK ID - 77862004 TI - Human biologists in the archives : demography, health, nutrition, and genetics in historical populations AU - Herring, Ann AU - Swedlund, Alan C. PY - 2003 SN - 1107130298 1280430338 9786610430338 1139147013 051117845X 051106330X 0511056974 0511305702 0511542534 0511071760 9780511063305 9780511178450 9780511542534 9780511071768 9780521801041 0521801044 9780511056970 0521801044 9781139147019 9780521020114 0521020115 PB - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Medical anthropology KW - Physical anthropology KW - Biological anthropology KW - Somatology KW - Anthropology KW - Human biology KW - Medical care KW - Medicine KW - Archival resources KW - Anthropological aspects KW - Life Sciences KW - General and Others UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77862004 AB - Many physical anthropologists study populations using data that come primarily from the historical record. For this volume's authors, the classic anthropological 'field' is not the glamour of an exotic locale, but the sometimes tedium of the dusty back rooms of libraries, archives and museum collections. This book tells of the way in which archival data inform anthropological questions about human biology and health. The authors present a diverse array of human biological evidence from a variety of sources including the archaeological record, medical collections, church records, contemporary health and growth data and genetic information from the descendants of historical populations. The papers demonstrate how the analysis of historical documents expands the horizons of research in human biology, extends the longitudinal analysis of microevolutionary and social processes into the present and enhances our understanding of the human condition. ER -