Skeletal Series and their socio-economic context, 2007, 294 p., 142 ill. -

Chapter I deals with anthropological skeletal series. Topics in this context are the evolution of health in Europe from the Late Palaeolithic Era to the present, the collections of the Anthropological Museum of Coimbra University, victims of pestilence in the Merovingian row cemetery at Aschheim-Bajuwarenring, the city and hospital cemetery at Adolf-Pichler-Platz in Innsbruck [mainly 19th cent.], separated burial grounds of the Baiuvarii, and estimates of age at death by means of tooth cementum. Chapter II is dedicated to archaeozoological skeletal series. The authors deal with horse skeletons from the Scythian royals grave mound at Arzan, Siberia, the hunt for wild dromedaries in the 3rd/2nd mill. B.C. in the United Arab Emirates, the osteometry of prehistoric cattle from Kerma, Sudan, of the 2nd cent. B.C., and animal sacrifices from the Gallo-Roman cemetery at Vertault, Côte d‘Or, France.