The Routledge handbook of Mesoamerican bioarchaeology / edited by Vera Tiesler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tiesler, Vera, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human remains (Archaeology)--Mexico.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Human remains (Archaeology)--Central America.

Indians of Mexico--Antiquities.

Indians of Mexico.

Indians of Central America--Antiquities.

Indians of Central America.

Antiquities.

Mexico--Antiquities.

Mexico.

Central America--Antiquities.

Central America.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 738 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Mesoamerican bioarchaeology

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Summary:

"This volume brings together a range of contributors with different and hybrid academic backgrounds to explore, through bioarchaeology, the past human experience in the territories that span Mesoamerica. This handbook provides systematic bioarchaeological coverage of skeletal research in the ancient Mesoamericas. It offers an integrated collection of engrained, bioculturally embedded explorations of relevant and timely topics, such as population shifts, life styles, body concepts, beauty, gender, health, foodways, social inequality, and violence. The additional treatment of new methodologies, local cultural settings, and theoretic frames rounds out the scope of this handbook. The selection of 36 chapter contributions invites readers to engage with the human condition in ancient and not so ancient Mesoamerica and beyond. The Routledge Handbook of Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology is addressed to an audience of Mesoamericanists, students and researchers in bioarchaeology and related fields. It serves as a comprehensive reference for courses on Mesoamerica, Bioarchaeology and Native American Studies"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 0.1. Foreword / John Verano

0.2. Introduction / Vera Tiesler

pt. I Framing Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology

1.1. The Early Days of Mesoamerican Osteology / Andrew K. Schcrer

1.2. Management and Conservation of Human Remains From Mesoamerica: Ethical, Legal, and Technical Recommendations / Juan Manuel Argtielles San Milan

1.3. The Preceramic Skeletal Record of Mexico and Central America / Pilar Luna-Errcguercna

1.4. North of Mesoamerica: Bioarchaeology of the Northwest, North-Central, and Northeast / James T. Watson

1.5. Bioarchaeological Studies in the Southern Periphery of Mesoamerica / Shintaro Suzuki

pt. II Across the Human Landscapes of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica

2.1. The Bioarchaeology of Preclassic Mesoamerica and the Advent of Statehood / Monica Rodriguez Perez

2.2. Bioarchaeology of Oaxaca: Major Developments in the Study of 3500 Years of Mortuary Practice in Southern Mexico / Guy David Hepp

2.3. Maya Bioarchaeology / Joshua T. Schnell

2.4. The People of the Southern Central Region of Veracruz / Mireya Montiel Mendoza

2.5. The Bioarchaeology of the Central Highlands of Mesoamerica From the Early Classic Period Through the Toltec Period / Meggan Bullock

2.6. The Heartland of the Empire: Studying the Aztecs / Diana Bustos Rios

pt. III The Bioarchaeology of Cities, Neighborhoods, and Communities

3.1. The Inhabitants of Monte Alban: A Bioarchaeological Approach / Aurora Marcela Perez-Florez

3.2. The Multiethnic Population of a Teotihuacan Neighborhood Center: Bioarchaeological, Archaeometric, and Ancient DNA Analyses / Linda R. Manzanilla-Naim

3.3. The Community of Xcambo, a Classic-Period Maya Port in the Yucatan Peninsula / Andrea Cucina

3.4. Bioarchaeology at Copan, Honduras: Spearheading Maya Bioarchaeology / T. Douglas Price

pt. IV The Body as a Cultural Construct

4.1. The Bioarchaeology of Permanent Body Modifications in Mesoamerica / Vera Tiesler

4.2. Royal Bodies: The Life Histories of Janaab' Pakal and the "Red Queen" of Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico / Vera Tiesler

4.3. Archaeothanatology: A Body-Anchored Approach to Mesoamerican Mortuary Analyses / Hemmamuthe Goudiaby

4.4. The Bioarchaeology of Ritualized Violence and Posthumous Treatments of the Human Body in Mesoamerica / Vera Tiesler

pt. V Life Style, Diet, and Health

5.1. Mesoamerican Paleopathology: A Bioarchaeological Approach to Diseases From the Past / Raul Lopez Perez

5.2. Living Conditions, Gender, and Stature / Peter Mercier

5.3. Geographic Variation in Mesoamerican Paleodiets: A Review of Recent Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Analyses / J. Alex Canterbury

pt. VI Population and Mobility

6.1. Population Continuity and Mobility Across Mesoamerica / Heather J. H. Edgar

6.2. Baseline Strontium Isotope Ratios in Mesoamerica / Carolyn Freiwald

6.3. The Paleo-DNA of Ancient Mesoamerican Peoples / Miguel Angel Contreras Sieck

6.4. Population Structure, Fertility, and Growth / Patricia Olga Hernandez-Espinoza

6.5. The Craniometry of Mesoamerican Population Distances / Jorge A. Gomez-Valdes

pt. VII Breaking New Grounds in Methodology

7.1. 3D Digitization and Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains for Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology / Gabriel Wrobel

7.2. Methods in Bioarchaeology: What's New in Profiling an Individual Inside and Out / Asta Rand

7.3. Histomorphology of Un-Decalcified Bone in Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology / Isabel Maggiano

7.4. The Phenomenon of Mummification in Ancient Mexico / Ilan S. Lcboreiro Reyna

pt. VIII The Bioarchaeology of the Thresholds of Modernity: Learning From the Past to Meet Today's Challenges

8.1. The Bioarchaeology of Colonial New Spain / Julie K. Wesp

8.2. The Serdan Brothers: Reconstructing the Mortuary Trajectory of the Three Heroes of the Mexican Revolution / Jorge A. Gomez-Valdes

8.3. General Trends in Size in Maya Populations of the Yucatan Peninsula From the Preclassic to the 2010s: A Diachronic Perspective From Human Ecology / Federico Dickinson Bannack

8.4. Making Research of Human Reference Collections Available to Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology / Jorge A. Gomez-Valdes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

Online version: Routledge handbook of Mesoamerican bioarchaeology

ISBN:

9780367357818

036735781X

9781032266541

1032266546

OCLC:

1286145221

Publisher Number:

99991971881