Overview
- Provides innovative approaches for bioarchaeological migration and culture transfer research
- Maximizes readers insight into transalpine mobility and trade since the Mesolithic
- Explains how isotopic landscapes combined with data mining brings new insights for prehistoric migration and cultural transfer
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Table of contents(7 chapters)
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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LMU München Biozentrum Martinsried, Martinsried, Germany
Gisela Grupe, George C. McGlynn
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Staatssammlung f. Anthropologie und Paläoanatomie, München, Germany
Andrea Grigat
About the editors
Dr. Andrea Grigat is physical anthropologist and is currently employed as temporary maternity leave replacement curator at the anthropological department of the Bavarian State Collection of Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy in Munich. In parallel she offers anthropological services on a freelance basis. Prior to this she has been in charge of the ArchaeoBioCenter at the LMU as executive secretary and scientific coordinator and subsequently as scientific and administrative coordinator of the Research Group “Transalpine Mobility and Culture Transfer” funded by the German Science Foundation. She finished her PhD in physical anthropology in 2014 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Her main research and working fields focus on the osteological analysis of human remains. Dr. Andrea Grigat is member of the German Anthropological Society.
George McGlynn is currently conservator and curator of the anthropological collections at the State Collection for Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy in Munich, Germany. He received his PhD. at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich with a focus on examining high altitude occupation in an alpine context. He previously worked as a freelance anthropologist for the City Archaeology in Hall in Tirol, Austria. His professional interests include bone pathology, analysis of cremated remains, Bronze Age burial practices in Mongolia, and the forensic application of osteology. He was member of the Society for Anthropology executive board in Germany for ten years and also its former president.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Across the Alps in Prehistory
Book Subtitle: Isotopic Mapping of the Brenner Passage by Bioarchaeology
Editors: Gisela Grupe, Andrea Grigat, George C. McGlynn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41550-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-41548-2Published: 01 June 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82381-2Published: 28 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-41550-5Published: 23 May 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 255
Number of Illustrations: 67 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Life Sciences, general, Anthropology, Mass Spectrometry, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery