ISBN: 9780656803613 - The Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science, Vol. 80: April, 2009 (classic Reprint) (3 results)

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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book details numerous accounts of cannibalism in Fiji gathered from archeological, ethnographic, isotopic, and human skeletal evidence. The author reviews the frequency of human bones recovered from middens and evidence of conflagration, isotopic signatures, worked human bones, and tools, as well as human bones examined via macroscopic and/or histologic methods. In particular, the types of implements used in the creation of the incised marks on bone are closely examined. The author discusses how anthropologists might identify and classify cannibalism as dietary or ritual cannibalism. By examining preserved human remains, the author can describe cannibalism in Fiji as either dietary or ritual cannibalism. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.…