Behaviour in our Bones: How Human Behaviour Influences Skeletal Morphology

Features:

• Serves as a comprehensive resource for readers who are new to human skeletal behaviour investigations
• Offers an overview on how behaviour may impact the entire skeleton (from head to toe)
• Discusses activities that can leave evidence on the human skeleton and how behaviour can become incorporated in bone
• Introduces methods that biological anthropologists use to quantify and interpret skeletal evidence for behaviour and its range of morphological variation
• Critically examines the current state of skeletal behaviour research and provides recommendations for future work in this field

Table Of Contents:

1. Introduction: Skeletons in Action: Inferring Behaviour from our Bones

2. Bone Biology and Microscopic Changes in Response to Behaviour

3. Biosocial Complexity and the Skull

4. Activity and the Shoulder: From Soft Tissues to Bare Bones

5. Archery and the Arm

6. Tool use and the hand

7. Behaviour and the bones of the thorax and spine

8. Human Behaviour and the Pelvis

9. Horse riding and the Lower Limbs

10. Locomotion and the foot

11. Injury, Disease & Recovery: Skeletal Adaptations to Immobility & Impairment

12. Acting On What We Have Learned and Moving Forward with Skeletal Behaviour