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    Toward a Bioarchaeology of Urbanization: Demography, Health, and Behavior in Cities in the Past

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    Betsinger, Tracy K.
    DeWitte, Sharon N.
    Keyword
    Urban-rural
    Biological consequences
    Paleopathology
    Demography
    Skeletal stress indicators
    Journal title
    American Journal of Physical Anthropology
    Date Published
    2021-02
    
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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/2035
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    Urbanization is one of the most important settlement shifts in human history and has been the focus of research within bioarchaeology for decades. However, there have been limited attempts to synthesize the results of these studies in order to gain a broader perspective on whether or how urbanization affects the biology, demography, and behavior of humans, and how these potential effects are embodied in the human skeleton. This paper outlines how bioarchaeology is well-suited to examine urbanization in the past, and we provide an overview and examples of three main ways in which urbanization is studied in bioarchaeological research: comparison of (often contemporaneous) urban and rural sites, synchronic studies of the variation that exists within and between urban sites, and investigations of changes that occur within urban sites over time. Studies of urbanization, both within bioarchaeology and in other fields of study, face a number of limitations, including a lack of a consensus regarding what urban and urbanization mean, the assumed dichotomous nature of urban versus rural settlements, the supposition that urbanization is universally bad for people, and the assumption (at least in practice) of homogeneity within urban and rural populations. Bioarchaeologists can address these limitations by utilizing a wide array of data and methods, and the studies described here collectively demonstrate the complex, nuanced, and highly variable effects of urbanization.
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    Betsinger, Tracy K. and DeWitte, Sharon N. 2021. Toward a bioarchaeology of urbanization: Demography, health, and behavior in cities in the past. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 175S:79-118. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24249
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    10.1002/ajpa.24249
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1002/ajpa.24249
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