Mesoamerican osteobiographies : revealing the lives and deaths of ancient individuals / edited by Gabriel D. Wrobel and Andrea Cucina.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wrobel, Gabriel D., editor.

Cucina, Andrea, 1966- editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human remains (Archaeology)--Central America.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Human remains (Archaeology)--Mexico.

Indians of Mexico--Antiquities.

Indians of Mexico.

Indians of Central America--Antiquities.

Indians of Central America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 409 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2024]

Contents:

Osteobiographies in Mesoamerica: Their History and Scope / Gabriel D. Wrobel, Andrea Cucina

Section 1: Ordinary Individuals.

The Man of Macabilero: An Osteobiography of Perseverance / Andrew K. Scherer, Ricardo Rodas, Joshua T. Schnell, Mónica Urquizá, and Omar Alcover Firpi

Life into Old Age: A Female Forager-Horticulturalist from the Middle Holocene in Belize / Emily Moes, Lexi O'Donnell, Ethan Hill, Mark Robinson, Douglas J. Kennett, and Keith Prufer

Life and Death of a Middle Preclassic Individual from Aguada Fenix, Tabasco / Shintaro Suzuki, Fernando Gutiérrez Méndez, María Belén Méndez Bauer, Daniela Triadan, Takeshi Inomata

Colonial Lifeways and Childhood Revealed through Osteobiographic Analysis at Cahal Pech, Belize / Kirsten Green-Mink, Claire E. Ebert, Jaime J. Awe, Carolyn Freiwald, Jelmer Eerkens

Daily Life at the Border: Utilizing Osteobiography to Create Imagined Narratives of Two Colonists from the Villa de Salamanca de Bacalar / Allan Ortega Muñoz

Life on the Colonial Frontier: A Maya Osteobiography from Tipu, Belize / Amy L. Hair, Peter Mercier, Mariah D. Biggs, Marie Elaine Danforth

Section 2: Social Roles in Life.

Osteobiography of a Postclassic Maya Shaman/Priest: The "Guardian of Maay*" from San Miguelito, Quintana Roo / Andrea Cucina, Sandra Elizalde, Allan Ortega-Muñoz

A Teotihuacano in Monte Alban: Life history in a domestic group from an osteobiographic approach / Lourdes Mãrquez Morfín, Samantha Sharon Negrete-Gutiérrez, Aurora Marcela Pérez-Flórez

Walking in the Mayab Land: The Life History of a Merchant from Caucel, Yucatan / Mónica Rodríguez Pérez, Ana María Padilla Dorantes, Andrea Cucina

A Young Man, An Old Ritual, and Maya Ethnoscience / Della Collins Cook

Section 3: Distinguished in Death: Postmortem Social Roles.

Making a Place for Ancestors at Actuncan, Belize: An Osteobiography of a Maya Burial Ground / Carolyn Freiwald, Destiny Micklin, Kara A. Fulton, David W. Mixter, Lisa LeCount

Death and Remembrance in Central Belize: An Osteobiography / Gabriel D. Wrobel, Eleanor M. Harrison-Buck, Carolyn Freiwald, Jack A. Biggs, Morgan McKenna, Satoru Murata

A Pilgrimage of Bones: Using Osteobiography to Understand Rockshelter Use Along a Maya Ritual Circuit in Central Belize / Samantha H. Blatt, Amy R. Michael, Jack A. Biggs

Recycling souls and Age-Fluid Ancestors: Osteobiographic Evidence from the Precolumbian Maya of Northwestern Belize / Pamela L. Geller

Venerated Youth: Age at Death and Ancestral Status at the Chan Site, Belize / Anna C. Novotny

Human Bones Converted into Artifacts at Teotihuacan / Abigail Meza, Federico Zertuche, Andrea Cucina

Section 4: Impairment and Care.

Blighted Childhood in Colonial La Antigua Guatemala / Paige Violet Wojcik Woolfolk, Rosalba Yasmin Cifuentes Arg ello, Della Collins Cook

Living and Dying in the Pur'pecha Heartland: A Case of Possible Hypertrophic Osteoarthropathy from Angamuco, Michoacán, Mexico / Alex Garcia-Putnam, D. Eli Mrak, Melissa S. Murphy, Christopher T. Fisher

Section 5: Forensic Biohistory.

Tying the Knot Between the Maya Ruler Janaab Pakal and Lady Tz'akab Ajaw: A Family Osteobiography from Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico / Vera Tiesler, Erik Vel squez GarcíŁa

An Osteobiographic Narrative of Copan's Early Royal Dynasty / Jane E. Buikstra, LP Traxler, EE Bell, and KA Miller Wolf

Osteobiography: The Next Generation / John Robb

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 09, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Mesoamerican osteobiographies

ISBN:

9781683404651

1683404653

9781683404538

168340453X

Publisher Number:

99996847742

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Restricted for use by site license.