Paleopathology at the origins of agriculture / edited by Mark Nathan Cohen and George J. Armelagos ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Cohen, Mark Nathan, editor.

Armelagos, George J., editor.

Larsen, Clark Spencer

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Conference Name:

Conference on Paleopathology and Socioeconomic Change at the Origins of Agriculture (1982 : State University of New York College at Plattsburgh)

Series:

Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past

Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local, regional, and global perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleopathology--Congresses.

Paleopathology.

Agriculture--Origin--Congresses.

Agriculture.

Agriculture--History--Congresses.

Agriculture--Origin.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 618 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Edition:

[Second edition].

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2013]

Summary:

Presents data from nineteen different regions before, during, and after agricultural transitions, analyzing populations in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and South America while primarily focusing on North America. A wide range of health indicators are discussed, including mortality, episodic stress, physical trauma, degenerative bone conditions, isotopes, and dental pathology.

Contents:

An introduction to the symposium / Mark Nathan Cohen

Indications of stress from bone and teeth / Alan H. Goodman, Debra L. Martin, George J. Armelagos, and George Clark

Health as a crucial factor in the changes from hunting to developed farming in the Eastern Mediterranean / J. Lawrence Angel

Socioeconomic change and patterns of pathology and variation in the Mesolithic and Neolithic of Western Europe: some suggestions / Christopher Meiklejohn, Catherine Schentag, Alexandra Venema, and Patrick Key

Archaeological and skeletal evidence for dietary change during the late Pleistocene/early Holocene in the Levant / Patricia Smith, Ofer Bar-Yosef, and Andrew Sillen

Skeletal pathology from the Paleolithic through the metal ages in Iran and Iraq / Ted A. Rathbun

Growth, nutrition, and pathology in changing paleodemographic settings in South Asia / Kenneth A.R. Kennedy

The effects of socioeconomic change in prehistoric Africa: Sudanese Nubia as a case study / Debra L. Martin, George J. Armelagos, Alan H. Goodman, and Dennis P. Van Gerven

The lower Illinois river region: a prehistoric context for the study of ancient diet and health / Jane E. Buikstra

Subsistence and health in the lower Illinois valley: osteological evidence / Della Collins Cook

Health changes at Dickson Mounds, Illinois (A.D. 950-1300) / Alan H. Goodman, John Lallo, George J. Armelagos, and Jerome C. Rose

Skeletal evidence for prehistoric subsistence adaptation in the Central Ohio river valley / Anthony J. Perzigian, Patricia A. Tench, and Donna J. Braun

Health and disease in prehistoric Georgia: the transition to agriculture / Clark Spencer Larsen

Paleopathology and the origins of maize agriculture in the Lower Mississippi valley and Caddoan culture areas / Jerome C. Rose, Barbara A. Burnett, Mark W. Blaeuer, and Michael S. Nassaney

Agriculture, marginal environments, and nutritional stress in the prehistoric southwest / Ann M. Palkovich

Central California: prehistoric subsistence changes and health / David N. Dickel, Peter D. Schulz, and Henry M. McHenry

Prehistoric subsistence and health status of coastal peoples from the Panamanian isthmus of lower Central America / Lynette Norr

Prehistoric human biology of Ecuador: possible temporal trends and cultural correlations / D.H. Ubelaker

Paleopathology in Peruvian and Chilean populations / Marvin J. Allison

The challenges and rewards of sedentism: the preceramic village of Paloma, Peru / Robert A. Benfer

Population, health, and the evolution of subsistence: conclusions from the conference / Anna Curtenius Roosevelt

Paleopathology at the origins of agriculture: editors' summation / Mark Nathan Cohen and George J. Armelagos.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Academic Press, 1984.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780813044897

0813044898

OCLC:

816030767