Behaviour in our Bones

How Human Behaviour Influences Skeletal Morphology

Cara Hirst, Rebecca Gilmour, Francisca Cardoso, Kimberly Plomp
Elsevier
328 pages
ISBN: 9780128213834
February 2023

This book examines how human physical and cultural actions and interactions can be read through careful analyses of skeletal human remains. Each chapter is dedicated to a specific region of the human body, guiding the reader from head to toe and highlighting how evidence found on bones has been used to infer patterns of activity and other behavior.