The bioarchaeology of the human head : decapitation, decoration, and deformation / edited by Michelle Bonogofsky ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen.

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2011], ©2011.

xix, 323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Contextualizing the human head : an introduction / Michelle Bonogofsky -- Heads as memorials and status symbols : the collection and use of skulls in the Torres Strait Islands / Heather Bonney and Margaret Clegg -- Melanesian modeled skulls, mortuary ritual, and dental X-rays : ancestors, enemies, women, and children / Michelle Bonogofsky and Jeremy Graham -- Marquesan trophy skulls : description, osteological analyses, and changing motivations in the South Pacific / Frédérique Valentin and Noémie Rolland -- The social lives of severed heads : skull collection and display in medieval and early modern Ireland / Barra O'Donnabhain -- Identifying the origins of decapitated male skeletons from 3 Driffield Terrace, York, through isotope analysis : reflections of the cosmopolitan nature of Roman York in the time of Caracalla / Janet Montgomery, Christopher J. Knüsel, and Katie Tucker -- Biohistory and cranial morphology : a forensic case from Spanish colonial Georgia / Christopher M. Stojanowski and William N. Duncan -- Skull deformation during the Iron Age in the Trans-Urals and western Siberia / Svetlana Sharapova and Dmitry Razhev -- Marking ethnicity through premortem cranial modification among the pre-Inca Chiribaya, Peru / María Cecilia Lozada -- Getting a head start in life : pre-Columbian Maya cranial modification from infancy to ancestorhood / Pamela L. Geller -- How the Wari fashioned trophy heads for display : a distinctive modified cranium from Cuzco, Peru, and comparison to trophies from the capital region / Valerie A. Andrushko -- Nasca trophy head origins and ancient DNA / Kathleen Forgey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.