Format:
Online Ressource (xvi, 290 p.)
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ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780817383831
,
0817383832
Content:
7. Late Postclassic Tooth Filing at Chau Hiix and Tipu, Belize8. Cultural Odontology: Dental Alterations from Petn, Guatemala; 9. Individual Frailty, Children of Privilege, and Stress in Late Classic Copn; 10. Late Classic Maya Health Patterns: Evidence from Enamel Microdefects; 11. Dental Genetic Structuring of a Colonial Maya Cemetery, Tipu, Belize; Part 4. Stable Isotope and DNA Studies; 12. Commoner Diet at Copn: Insights from Stable Isotopes and Po.
Content:
Contents; Contributors; Preface; Preface to the New Edition; Part 1. Introduction; 1. Studying Maya Burials; Part 2. Osteological Studies; 2. Southern Lowland Maya Archaeology and Human Skeletal Remains: Interpretations from Caracol (Belize), Santa Rita Corozal (Belize), and Tayasal (Guatemala); 3. The Preclassic Skeletons from Cuello; 4. Height among Prehispanic Maya of the Yucatn Peninsula: A Reconsideration; 5. A Maya Skull Pit from the Terminal Classic Period, Colha, Belize; 6. Archaeology and Osteology of the Tipu Site; Part 3. Dental Studies.
Content:
During the last 20 years new techniques in osteology have yielded findings on Maya diet and health that challenge the ecological model of collapse. This volume, which includes an index bibliography of the first 150 years of Maya osteology, brings together for the first time, a broad spectrum of bioarchaeologists and reveals remarkable data on Maya genetic relationship, demographic, and diseases
Note:
Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-285) and index. - Description based on print version record
Additional Edition:
0817383832
Additional Edition:
0817353763
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bones of the Maya Tuscaloosa, Ala : University of Alabama Press, 2006
Language:
English
Keywords:
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