Description: Drawing from a variety of sites throughout Mesoamerica, this volume presents a collection of osteobiographies, which analyze skeletons and their surroundings alongside historical, archaeological, ethnographic, and other contextual data to better understand the life experiences of individuals.
Brief description: Gabriel D. Wrobel, professor of anthropology at Michigan State University, is the editor of The Bioarchaeology of Space and Place: Ideology, Power, and Meaning in Maya Mortuary Contexts.
Review Quotes:
"An important and timely contribution to both the bioarchaeology of Mesoamerica and the deployment of osteobiography within the field of bioarchaeology."--Lauren Hosek, University of Colorado, Boulder
"The authors of this volume take a challenging approach to understanding the lived experience of people in the past in a novel and interesting way."--Corey Ragsdale, Southern Illinois University