Ref ID:	22440
Ref Type:	Book Section
Authors:	Spriggs, Matthew
Title:	What archaeologists want human biologiests to tell them, about Teouma for example
Date:	2015
Source:	The Routledge handbook of bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands
Place of Publication:	Oxon, UK New York
Publisher:	Routledge
Abstract:	This paper reflects on the relative roles of human biology and archaeology in reconstructing the past. There are things that the archaeologists can do for the human biologists (and vice versa of course), and this can be demonstrated by some illustrations of less-than-best-practice in interpretation on both sides. From this follows – as the title suggests – a call for what archaeologists want human biologists to tell them. But first the subject is introduced by a discussion of attitudes to human remains and their study in Vanuatu, where the Teouma site is located. This may well not resonate with experiences elsewhere in the region; for that reason alone it is worthy of mention (cf. Bedford et al. 2010a).
Date Created:	2/22/2016
Editors:	Oxenham, Marc Buckley, Hallie R.
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