Ancient health : skeletal indicators of agricultural and economic intensification /
Ancient health : skeletal indicators of agricultural and economic intensification /
edited by Mark Nathan Cohen and Gillian M.M. Crane-Kramer.
- Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©2007.
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 432 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past .
- Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-410) and index.
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 [and others] -- 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 [and others] -- 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 [and others] -- 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 [and others] -- 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.
Unlimited Users and Download Restrictions may Apply, ProQuest Unlimited User Licence. Available using University of Exeter Username and Password.
Confirming earlier conclusions that human health declined after the adoption of farming and the rise of civilization, this book greatly enlarges the geographical range of paleopathological studies by including new work from both established and up-and-coming scholars.
English.
9780813037776 (electronic bk.) 0813037778 (electronic bk.)
726888 EBL
Human remains (Archaeology)
Human skeleton--Analysis.
Paleopathology.
Paleoanthropology.
Agriculture--Origin.
Prehistoric peoples--Health and hygiene.
Human remains (Archaeology)--Congresses.
Human skeleton--Analysis--Congresses.
Paleopathology--Congresses.
Paleoanthropology--Congresses.
Agriculture--Origin--Congresses.
Prehistoric peoples--Health and hygiene--Congresses.
Bone and Bones--anatomy & histology
Paleopathology--methods
Agriculture--history
Diet--history
Health Status
History, Ancient
Paleopathology
Restes humains (Archéologie)--Congrès.
Squelette humain--Analyse--Congrès.
Paléopathologie--Congrès.
Paléoanthropologie--Congrès.
Agriculture--Origines--Congrès.
Homme préhistorique--Santé et hygiène--Congrès.
Restes humains (Archéologie)
Squelette humain--Analyse.
Paléopathologie.
Paléoanthropologie.
Agriculture--Origines.
paleoanthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Archaeology.
Agriculture--Origin.
Human remains (Archaeology)
Human skeleton--Analysis.
Paleoanthropology.
Paleopathology.
Paläopathologie
Skelettfund
Mensch
Lebensbedingungen
Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Paläanthropologie
Congress
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
CC79.5.H85 / A53 2007eb
930.1
2009 I-944 QZ 11.5 / A541 2007
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-410) and index.
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 [and others] -- 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 [and others] -- 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 [and others] -- 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 [and others] -- 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.
Unlimited Users and Download Restrictions may Apply, ProQuest Unlimited User Licence. Available using University of Exeter Username and Password.
Confirming earlier conclusions that human health declined after the adoption of farming and the rise of civilization, this book greatly enlarges the geographical range of paleopathological studies by including new work from both established and up-and-coming scholars.
English.
9780813037776 (electronic bk.) 0813037778 (electronic bk.)
726888 EBL
Human remains (Archaeology)
Human skeleton--Analysis.
Paleopathology.
Paleoanthropology.
Agriculture--Origin.
Prehistoric peoples--Health and hygiene.
Human remains (Archaeology)--Congresses.
Human skeleton--Analysis--Congresses.
Paleopathology--Congresses.
Paleoanthropology--Congresses.
Agriculture--Origin--Congresses.
Prehistoric peoples--Health and hygiene--Congresses.
Bone and Bones--anatomy & histology
Paleopathology--methods
Agriculture--history
Diet--history
Health Status
History, Ancient
Paleopathology
Restes humains (Archéologie)--Congrès.
Squelette humain--Analyse--Congrès.
Paléopathologie--Congrès.
Paléoanthropologie--Congrès.
Agriculture--Origines--Congrès.
Homme préhistorique--Santé et hygiène--Congrès.
Restes humains (Archéologie)
Squelette humain--Analyse.
Paléopathologie.
Paléoanthropologie.
Agriculture--Origines.
paleoanthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Archaeology.
Agriculture--Origin.
Human remains (Archaeology)
Human skeleton--Analysis.
Paleoanthropology.
Paleopathology.
Paläopathologie
Skelettfund
Mensch
Lebensbedingungen
Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Paläanthropologie
Congress
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
CC79.5.H85 / A53 2007eb
930.1
2009 I-944 QZ 11.5 / A541 2007