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ANTB11: World Prehistory

This guide provide an overview of library resources to support the assignments in ANTB11.

Research Starting Points for Bio & Evo Anthropology: Books and Handbooks

Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology

Geoarchaeological research builds collaborative links between specialists in archaeology and the earth sciences to produce new knowledge about past human behavior using the technical information and methods of the geosciences.

Digital Geoarchaeology

Modern archaeology increasingly crosses academic boundaries to investigate past human-environmental relationships and to reconstruct palaeolandscapes.

Handbook of Paleoanthropology

Covers the full extent of current knowledge in paleoanthropology, encompassing a vast range of techniques drawn from geology, evolutionary biology, and archaeology.

Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution

Entries cover evidence and methods used to investigate the relationships among the living great apes, evidence about what makes the behavior of modern humans distinctive, and evidence about the evolutionary history of that distinctiveness.

Spotlight on Bioarchaeology: Books

Bioarchaeology

Revised edition of Larsen's classic text provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of bioarchaeology.

Bioarchaeology

Integrative and frequently inter-disciplinary, bioarchaeology draws methods and theoretical perspectives from across the sciences.

Bioarchaeology

Bioarchaeology is the analysis of human remains within an interpretative framework that includes contextual information.

Bioarchaeology

The book explores, through case studies, how the ways a society deals with their dead can reveal its religious, political, economic, and social organizations.

The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Climate and Environmental Change

Examines human responses to climatic changes and their impacts on disease, nutrition, migration.

Spotlight on Biological Anthropology, Human Evolutionary Biology, Molecular Anthropology, and Paleoanthropology: Books

Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory

The most up-to-date and wide-ranging encyclopedia work on human evolution (2017 online ed.)

Human Evolutionary Biology

Selection of topics in human evolution, variation and adaptability for professionals in biological anthropology, evolutionary biology, medical sciences and psychology.

A Companion to Biological Anthropology

Presents coverage of the many recent innovations and discoveries that are transforming the subject

Evaluating Evidence in Biological Anthropology

Critical perspective to the current state of the field, exploring theory and practice in paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology, and ecology.

Human Biology

Covers all the major areas of the field: genetic variation, variation related to climate, infectious and non-infectious diseases, aging, growth, nutrition, and demography.

Spotlight on Public Health through an Anthropological Lens: Books

A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health

Utilizes a medical anthropological approach to explore the interface of humans and the environment in the shaping of health and illness.

Anthropology and Public Health

Anthropology and Public Health examines the critical role of anthropology in four crucial public health domains.

Locating Health

The essays focus on the dynamic relationship between health and place. Historical and anthropological perspectives are presented.

The Anthropological Demography of Health

Encompasses genetic disorders; nutrition; mental health; infant, child, and maternal morbidity; malaria; HIV/AIDS; disability; chronic disease; reproductive technologies; and ageing.

Anthropology of Infectious Disease

Synthesizes the flourishing field of anthropology of infectious disease in a critical, biocultural framework.

Spotlight on Primatology: Books

Studying Primates

Primatology draws on theory and methods from diverse fields, including anatomy, anthropology, biology, ecology, medicine, psychology, veterinary sciences and zoology.

Primate Origins: Adaptations and Evolution

Provides a novel focus on adaptive explanations for cranial and postcranial features and functional complexes, socioecological systems, life history patterns, etc. in early primates.

The Primate Origins of Human Nature

Blends evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral ecology and psychology, classical physical anthropology and evolutionary psychology of humans.

Human Origins and Environmental Backgrounds

Considers evolutionary puzzles, reports current research, and reflects on the relationships among environmental changes, adaptive mechanisms and human origins.

Spatial Analysis in Field Primatology

How primates use space is a key question in the field of primate behavioral ecology.