Harpending henry c (4 resultados)

Condición: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Condición: Poor. Book is Poor condition. Good for reading, not pretty to look at! The pages and cover are soiled and/or yellowed, worn throughout.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 343-370 pages with tables, graphs, appendix and cited references. Quarto (11" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Current Anthropology Volume 33, Number 4 complete issue. First edition. Paleodemography and paleopathology presuppose that direct relationships exist between statistics calculated from archaeological skeletal series (e.g., skeletal lesion frequencies and mean age at death) and the health status of the past populations that gave rise to the series. However, three fundamental conceptual problems confound the interpretation of such statistics: demographic non stationarity, selective mortality, and unmeasured, individual level heterogeneity in the risks of disease and death. Using simple models of the relationship between individual "frailty" and the hazard of death at each age, this paper explores the implications of these problems for archaeological interpretation. One conclusion is that the skeletal evidence pertaining to the transition from hunting-and-gathering to settled agriculture is equally consistent with an improvement in health and a deterioration in health resulting from the transition. Condition: Edge wear, corners bumped and rubbed else very good.…

Paperback. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute and very faint smudges at the fore-edge. Else, flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Very close to 'As New'. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A handsome very nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a single, minor and unobtrusive imperfection. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (9 x 6 x 1 inches), xxxiv, 371 pages. Liberally illustrated with duotone photographs, tables, charts, and graphs. Language: English. Weight: 22 ounces. First Edition Thus (1994), Second Printing. Academic Press Paperback. First Edition Thus (1994), Second Printing.…