Between Biology and Culture

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Humans, unlike other animals, adapt to their environment through both culture and biology. Culture is intrinsic to human nature, and human identity is essentially shaped by the biological outcomes of cultural strategies. This book addresses topics and themes reflecting the close interrelationship between human culture and biology.

The assembled chapters explore approaches that allow a biocultural identity to be discovered. They also explore approaches that allow the detection of human lifestyle and living conditions, and the meaning of biological information from human remains provides for the understanding of a cultural setting. Writing for academic researchers and graduate students, the contributors probe the potential of skeletal analysis to look beyond the face value of observations and facts. In doing so they provide a forum for the closer integration of emerging sub-disciplines, which increasingly rely on data ascertained through research in biological anthropology.