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Foreword : emerging frontiers in the bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia / Clark Spencer Larsen -- Introduction : Southeast Asia bioarchaeology past and present / Nancy Tayles and Marc Oxenham -- The population history of Southeast Asia viewed from morphometric analyses of human skeletal and dental remains / Hirofumi Matsumura -- A multivariate craniometric study of the prehistoric and modern inhabitants of Southeast Asia, East Asia and surrounding regions : a human kaleidoscope? / Michael Pietrusewsky -- Interpretation of craniofacial variation and diversification of East and Southeast Asians / Tsunehiko Hanihara -- New perspectives on the peopling of Southeast and East Asia during the late Upper Pleistocene / Fabrice Demeter -- Human variation and evolution in Holocene peninsular Malaysia / David Bulbeck and Adam Lauer -- Dentition of the Batak people of Palawan Island, the Philippines : Southeast Asian Negrito origins / Christy G. Turner II and James F. Eder -- Subsistence change and dental health in the people of Non Nok Tha, northeast Thailand / Michele Toomay Douglas -- Human biology from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age in the Mun River Valley of northeast Thailand / Kate Domett and Nancy Tayles -- Palaeodietary change among pre-state metal age societies in northeast Thailand : a study using bone stable isotopes / Christopher A. King and Lynette Norr -- The oral health consequences of the adoption and intensification of agriculture in Southeast Asia / Marc Oxenham, Nguyen Lan Cuong and Nguyen Kim Thuy -- Cranial lesions on the late Pleistocene Indonesian Homo erectus Ngandong 7 / Etty Indriati -- 'The predators within' : investigating the relationship between malaria and health in the prehistoric Pacific islands / Hallie R. Buckley -- Synthesising Southeast Asian population history and palaeohealth / Marc Oxenham and Nancy Tayles.

When it was published in 1996 Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia was the first book to examine the biology and lives of the prehistoric people of this region. Bringing together the most active researchers in late Pleistocene/Holocene Southeast Asian human osteology, the book deals with major approaches to studying human skeletal remains. Using analysis of the physical appearance of the region's past peoples, the first section explores issues such as the first inhabitants of the region, the evidence for subsequent migratory patterns (particularly between Southeast and Northeast Asia) and counter arguments centering on in situ microevolutionary change. This second section reconstructs the health of these people, in the context of major economic and demographic changes over time, including those caused by the adoption or intensification of agriculture. Written for archaeologists, bioarchaeologists and biological anthropologists, it is a fascinating insight into the bioarchaeology of this important region.