Ancient health : skeletal indicators of agricultural and economic intensification / edited by Mark Nathan Cohen and Gillian M.M. Crane-Kramer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cohen, Mark Nathan.

Crane-Kramer, Gillian Margaret Mountford.

Series:

Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human remains (Archaeology).

Human skeleton--Analysis.

Human skeleton.

Paleopathology.

Paleoanthropology.

Agriculture--Origins.

Agriculture.

Prehistoric peoples--Health and hygiene.

Prehistoric peoples.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 432 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2007]

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 ... [et al.]

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 ... [et al.]

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 ... [et al.]

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 ... [et al.]

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.

Notes:

Revisions of papers presented at a conference held in April 2004 in Clearwater Beach, Fla.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [349]-410) and index.

ISBN:

9780813030821

081303082X

OCLC:

122715332