List of Figures ............................................ vii
List of Tables .............................................. xi
Foreword .................................................. xiii
1 Osteobiography and Bioarchaeology ............................ 1
Ann L.W. Stodder and Ann M. Palkovich
Part 1. Ancestors and Descendants
2 The Magician: An Ancestral Hopi Leader ...................... 11
Jill E. Neitzel
3 The Axed Man of Mosfell: Skeletal Evidence of a Viking Age
Homicide, the Icelandic Sagas, and Feud ..................... 26
Phillip L. Walker, Jesse Byock, Jacqueline T. Eng, Jon
M. Erlandson, Per Holck, Henry Schwarcz, and Davide Zori
4 Legendary Chamorro Strength: Skeletal Embodiment and the
Boundaries of Interpretation ................................ 44
Gary M. Heathcote, Vincent P. Diego, Hajime Ishida, and
Vincent J. Sava
5 Mortuary Evidence for Maya Political Resistance and
Religious Syncretism in Colonial Belize ..................... 68
Gabriel D. Wrobel
Part 2. Ancient Travelers and "Others"
6 Social Marginalization among the Chiribaya: The Curandero
of Yaral, Southern Peru ..................................... 85
María Cecilia Lozada, Kelly J. Knudson, Rex C. Haydon,
and Jane E. Buikstra
7 A Neolithic Nomad from Dakhleh Oasis ........................ 96
Jennifer L. Thompson
8 Lesley: A Unique Bronze Age Individual from Southeastern
Arabia ..................................................... 113
Debra L. Martin and Daniel T. Potts
9 The "African Queen": A Portuguese Mystery .................. 127
Mary Lucas Powell, Delia Collins Cook, Мага M. Langley,
Susan Dale Spencer, Jennifer Raff, and Frederika Kaestle
Part 3. Craftsmen and Artisans
10 Sew Long? The Osteobiography of a Woman from Medieval
Polis, Cyprus .............................................. 151
Brenda J. Baker, Claire E. Terhune, and Amy Papalexandrou
11 A Master Artisan? Tribute to the Founder of a Teotihuacan
Apartment Compound ......................................... 162
Rebecca Storey and Randolph J. Widmer
12 Vulcan: Skilled Village Craftsman of Ban Chiang,
Thailand ................................................... 177
Michele Toomay Douglas and Michael Pietrusewsky
13 Written in Stone, Written in Bone: The Osteobiography of
a Bronze Age Craftsman from Alalakh ........................ 193
Alexis T. Boutin
Part 4. Farm and Village
14 Life and Death of a Mother and Child in Nineteenth-
Century Ontario, Canada .................................... 217
M. Anne Katzenberg and Shelley R. Saunders
15 Thumbprints of a Midwife: Birth and Infant Death in an
Ancient Pueblo Community ................................... 229
Charles F. Merbs
16 Reading a Life: A Fourteenth-Century Ancestral Puebloan
Woman ...................................................... 242
Ann M. Palkovich
17 From Cradle to Grave and Beyond: A Maya Life and Death ..... 255
Pamela L. Geller
List of Contributors ....................................... 271
Index ...................................................... 277
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