Social Bioarchaeology	1
	Contents	7
	List of Tables and Figures	9
	Notes on Contributors	16
	Series Editors’ Preface	22
	1: Building a Social Bioarchaeology	23
	Part I: Materials and Meaning: The Nature of Skeletal Samples	35
	2: The Origins of Biocultural Dimensions in Bioarchaeology	37
	3: Partnerships, Pitfalls, and Ethical Concerns in International Bioarchaeology	66
	4: The Formation of Mortuary Deposits: Implications for Understanding Mortuary Behavior of Past Populations	90
	5: Representativeness and Bias in Archaeological Skeletal Samples	129
	Part II: Social Identity: Bioarchaeology of Sex, Gender, Ethnicity, and Disability	169
	6: Sex and Gender in Bioarchaeological Research: Theory, Method, and Interpretation	171
	7: Population Migration, Variation, and Identity: An Islamic Population In Iberia	205
	8: Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in Colonial New York: A Bioarchaeological Study of the New York African Burial Ground	234
	9: The Bioarchaeology of Leprosy and Tuberculosis: A Comparative Study of Perceptions, Stigma, Diagnosis, and Treatment	274
	Part III: Growth and Aging: The Life Course of Health and Disease	305
	10: Towards a Social Bioarchaeology of Age	307
	11: It is Not Carved in Bone: Development and Plasticity of the Aged Skeleton	334
	12: The Bioarchaeological Investigation of Children and Childhood	355
	13: Moving from the Canary in the Coalmine: Modeling Childhood in Bahrain	383
	14: Skeletal Injury Across the Life Course: Towards Understanding Social Agency	412
	15: Diet and Dental Health through the Life Course in Roman Italy	432
	Index	460