Ancient health : skeletal indicators of agricultural and economic intensification /
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Imprint: | Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©2007. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 432 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11099014 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Maize and Mississippians in the American Midwest : twenty years later / Della Collins Cook
- Health and lifestyle in Georgia and Florida : agricultural origins and intensification in regional perspective / Clark Spencer Larsen [and others]
- A brief continental view from Windover / Glen H. Doran
- Outer coast foragers and inner coast farmers in late prehistoric North Carolina / Dale L. Hutchinson, Lynette Norr, and Mark F. Teaford
- Health and the transition to horticulture in the south-central United States / Marie Elaine Danforth [and others]
- From early village to regional center in Mesoamerica : an investigation of lifestyles and health / Lourdes Marquez Morfin and Rebecca Storey
- Skeletal biology of the central Peruvian coast : consequences of changing population density and progressive dependence on maize agriculture / Ekaterina A. Pechenkina [and others]
- The adoption of agriculture among northern Chile populations in the Azapa Valley, 9000-1000 BP / Marta P. Alfonso, Vivien G. Standen, and M. Victoria Castro
- Population plasticity in southern Scandinavia : from oysters and fish to gruel and meat / Pia Bennike and Verner Alexandersen
- The impact of economic intensification and social complexity on human health in Britain from 6000 BP (Neolithic) and the introduction of farming to the mid-nineteenth century AD / Charlotte Roberts and Margaret Cox
- What can pathology say about the Mesolithic and Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic communities? : the Portuguese case / Eugenia Cunha [and others]
- Ecology, politics, and health in Bahrain / Judith Littleton
- Skeletal and dental health and subsistence change in the United Arab Emirates / Soren Blau
- Ancestors and inheritors : a bioanthropological perspective on the transition to agropastoralism in the southern Levant / Patricia Smith and Liora Kolska Horwitz
- The health of foragers : people of the later Stone Age, southern Africa / Susan Pfeiffer
- Climate, subsistence, and health in prehistoric India : the biological impact of a short-term subsistence shift / John R. Lukacs
- Iron-deficiency anemia in early Mongolian nomads / Naran Bazarsad
- Diet and health in the Neolithic of the Wei and middle Yellow River basins, northern China / Ekaterina A. Pechenkina, Robert A. Benfer Jr., and Ma Xiaolin
- Prehistoric dietary transitions in tropical Southeast Asia : stable isotope and dental caries evidence from two sites in Malaysia / John Krigbaum
- Population health from the Bronze to the Iron Age in the Mun River Valley, northeastern Thailand / Kate Domett and Nancy Tayles
- Biological consequences of sedentism : agricultural intensification in northeastern Thailand / Michele Toomay Douglas and Michael Pietrusewsky
- Editors' summation / Mark Nathan Cohen and Gillian Crane-Kramer.