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Diet and subsistence in remote Oceania: an analysis using oral indicators of diet
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Diet and subsistence in remote Oceania: an analysis using oral indicators of diet

Christina Stantis, Nancy Tayles, Rebecca L Kinaston, Claire Cameron, Patrick Nunn, Michael P Richards and Hallie R Buckley
Routledge Handbook of Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, pp.569-598
Routledge
2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315725444
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Oceania
In recent years the bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia and the Pacific islands has seen enormous progress. This new and exciting research is synthesised, contextualised and expanded upon in The Routledge Handbook of Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. The volume is divided into two broad sections, one dealing with mainland and island Southeast Asia, and a second section dealing with the Pacific islands. A multi-scalar approach is employed to the bio-social dimensions of Southeast Asia and the Pacific islands with contributions alternating between region and/or site specific scales of operation to the individual or personal scale. The more personal level of osteobiographies enriches the understanding of the lived experience in past communities. Including a number of contributions from sub-disciplinary approaches tangential to bioarchaeology the book provides a broad theoretical and methodological approach. Providing new information on the globally relevant topics of farming, population mobility, subsistence and health, no other volume provides such a range of coverage on these important themes. [Book Synopsis]

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