Built on bones : 15,000 years of urban life and death
Hassett, Brenna2018
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Imagine you are a hunter-gatherer some 12,000 years ago. You've got a choice - carry on foraging, or plant a few seeds and move to one of those new-fangled settlements down the valley. What you won't know is that urban life is short and riddled with dozens of new diseases; your children will be shorter and sicklier than you are, they'll be plagued with gum disease, and stand a decent chance of a violent death at the point of a spear. Why would anyone choose this? But choose they did. Why? This is one of the many intriguing questions tackled by Brenna Hassett in this book.
Main title:
Built on bones : 15,000 years of urban life and death / Brenna Hassett.
Author:
Hassett, Brenna, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2018.
Collation:
320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2017.Includes index.
ISBN:
9781472922960 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
BRN:
2511536
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