Built on Bones
15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death
Imagine you are a hunter-gatherer some 15,000 years ago. You've got a choice - carry on foraging, or plant a few seeds and move to one of those new-fangled settlements down the valley. What you won't know is that urban life is short and riddled with dozens of new diseases; your children will be shorter and sicklier than you are, they'll be plagued with gum disease, and stand a decent chance of a violent death at the point of a spear.Why would anyone choose this? This is one of the many intriguing questions tackled by Brenna Hassett in Built on Bones. Using research on skeletal remains from around the world, this book explores the history of h…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4729-2296-0
- EAN: 9781472922960
- Produktnummer: 22919518
- Verlag: Bloomsbury
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.4 cm 245 g
- Gewicht: 245
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