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Bioarchaeological studies of life in the age of agriculture : a view from the Southeast /

Annotation Investigations of skeletal remains from key archaeological sites reveal new data and offer insights on prehistoric life and health in theSoutheast. The shift from foraging to farming had important health consequences for prehistoric peoples, but variations in health existedwithin communit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lambert, Patricia M., 1958- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction / Patricia M. Lambert
  • 2. Ancient diseases, modern perspectives : treponematosis and tuberculosis in the age of agriculture / Mary Lucas Powell
  • 3. Warfare-related trauma in the late prehistory of Alabama / Patricia S. Bridges, Keith P. Jacobi, Mary Lucas Powell
  • 4. Transitions at Moundville : a question of collapse / Margaret J. Schoeninger, Lisa Sattenspiel, Mark R. Schurr
  • 5. Dental health at early historic Fusihatchee Town : biocultural implications of contact in Alabama / Marianne Reeves
  • 6. Agricultural melodies and alternative harmonies in Florida and Georgia / Dale L. Hutchinson, Clark Spencer Larsen, Lynette Norr, Margaret J. Schoeninger
  • 7. Inferring iron-deficiency anemia from human skeletal remains : the case of the Georgia Bight / Clark Spencer Larsen, Leslie E. Sering
  • 8. A comparison of degenerative joint disease between upland and coastal prehistoric agriculturalists from Georgia / Matthew A. Williamson
  • 9. Dental health and Late Woodland subsistence in coastal North Carolina / Elizabeth Monahan Driscoll, David S. Weaver
  • 10. Life on the periphery : health in farming communities of interior North Carolina and Virginia / Patricia M. Lambert
  • 11. "Utmost confusion" reconsidered : bioarchaeology and secondary burial in late prehistoric interior Virginia / Debra L. Gold.