List of Figures ............................................. ix
List of Tables .............................................. xi
Foreword .................................................. xiii
Introduction ................................................. 1
Megan A. Perry and Jane E. Buikstra
1 On the Tail End of Variation in Late Neolithic Burial
Practices: Halaf Feasting and Cannibalism at Domuztepe,
Southeastern Anatolia ........................................ 8
Suellen C. Gauld, James S. Oliver, Sarah Whitcher Kansa,
and Elizabeth Carter
2 An Exploration of Infant Burial Practices at the Site of
Kish, Iraq .................................................. 35
Christina Torres-Rouff and William J. Pestle
3 The Burial Customs of Early Christian Cyprus:
A Bioarchaeological Approach ................................ 60
Sherry C. Fox, Ioanna Moutafi, Eleni Anna Prevedorou, and
Despo Pilides
4 A Bioarchaeological Perspective on the Burials and
Basilicas of Medieval Polis, Cyprus ......................... 80
Brenda J. Baker and Amy Papalexandrou
5 Condemned to Metallum7. Illuminating Life at the Byzantine
Mining Camp at Phaeno in Jordan ............................ 115
Megan A. Perry, Drew S. Coleman, David L. Dettman, and
Abdel Halim al-Shiyab
6 Food for Thought: Isotopic Evidence for Dietary and
Weaning Practices in a Byzantine Urban Monastery in
Jerusalem .................................................. 138
Lesley A. Gregoricka and Susan G. Sheridan
7 Buccal Dental Microwear as an Indicator of Dietary Habits
of the Natufian People of El-Wad and El-Kebarah ............ 165
Mohammad Alrousan and Alejandro Pérez-Pérez
8 Daily Activity and Lower Limb Modification at
Babedh-Dhra', Jordan, in the Early Bronze Age .............. 180
Jaime M. Ullinger, Susan G. Sheridan, and Donald
J. Ortner
List of Contributors ....................................... 203
Index ...................................................... 207
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