Cambridge Ancient History

The Cambridge world history of food

Nobody could deny that the Cambridge world history offood is a bargain. For £110 the purchaser gets 2150 pages, with 224 contributors from 15 different countries. The six main parts are devoted to what our ancestors ate, staple foods, dietary liquids, the nutrients, food around the world, history of nutrition and health and contemporary policy issues. The text concludes with a 176-page dictiona...

The Cambridge world history of human disease

As a vigorous field of inquiry, the history and geography of disease, understandably in light of the events of recent years, is enjoying a renewed surge in interest. Now come Cambridge Press and Kenneth Kiple with a monumental new Baedeker for this field. It will be a touchstone for years to come. Even if the sterile debate between relativist and (the nearly vanquished) progressivists, along wi...

The Cambridge illustrated history of medicine

Until recent times, historians of medicine have almost exclusively written monographs and articles intended for a scholarly audience of their peers, and, in spite of the universal interest in health we now share with the public at large, little of this information has found its way to a general readership. This richly illustrated volume seeks to remedy such a deficiency, and in that endeavour s...

Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy

Ancient DNA and human history.

We review studies of genomic data obtained by sequencing hominin fossils with particular emphasis on the unique information that ancient DNA (aDNA) can provide about the demographic history of humans and our closest relatives. We concentrate on nuclear genomic sequences that have been published in the past few years. In many cases, particularly in the Arctic, the Americas, and Europe, aDNA has ...