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The backbone of history : health and nutrition in the Western Hemisphere
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- Creator
- edited by Richard H. Steckel, Jerome C. Rose
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002
- Physical Details
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- xx, 633 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780521801676, 0521801672
- OCLC
- ocm47658828
- Revised papers from a second conference sponsored by the National Science Foundation (SBR-9423435) and held March 7-10, 1996 at Ohio State University, Columbus.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reconstructing health profiles from skeletal remains / Alan H. Goodman and Debra Martin -- A health index from skeletal remains / Richard H. Steckel, Paul W. Sciulli and Jerome C. Rose -- Paleodemography of the Americas / Robert McCaa -- The health of the middle class: the St. Thomas Anglican church cemetery project / Shelly Saunders ... [et al.] -- The poor in the mid-nineteenth century northeastern United States / Rosanne L. Higgins ... [et al.] -- The effects of nineteenth-century military service on health / Paul S. Sledzik and Lars G. Sandberg -- The health of slaves and free blacks in the east / Ted A. Rathbun and Richard H. Steckel -- The quality of African American life in the southwest near the turn of the twentieth century / James Davidson ... [et al.] -- Social disruption and the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica / Rebecca Storey, Lourdes Marquez Morfin and Vernon Smith -- Health and nutrition in some Prehispanic Mesoamerican populations related with their way of life / Lourdes Marquez Morfin ... [et al.] -- Patterns of health and nutrition in prehistoric and historic Ecuador / Douglas H. Ubelaker and Linda A. Newson -- Economy, nutrition and disease in Southern, Coastal / Brazil Walter Neves and Verônica Wesolowski -- A biohistory of health and behavior in the Georgia Bight / Clark Larsen ... [et al.] -- Native Americans of Eastern North America / Paul W. Sciulli and James Oberly -- Cultural longevity in the face of biological stress / Ann L.W. Stodder ... [et al.] -- Health, nutrition, and demographic change in Native California / Phillip L. Walker and Russell Thornton -- Welfare history on the Great Plains / S. Ryan Johansson and Douglas Owsley -- Patterns of health in the Western Hemisphere / Richard H. Steckel and Jerome C. Rose -- Conclusions / Richard H. Steckel and Jerome C. Rose -- The body as evidence: the body of evidence / George J. Armelagos and Peter J. Brown -- Over-specialization and remedies / Philip D. Curtin
Subjects
- Indians -- Food -- History -- Congresses.
- Indians -- Health and hygiene -- History -- Congresses.
- European Americans -- Health and hygiene -- History -- Congresses.
- African Americans -- Health and hygiene -- History -- Congresses.
- Human remains (Archaeology) -- America -- Congresses.
- Public Health -- history -- Americas -- congresses.
Medical Subject Heading
- Anthropology, Physical -- Americas -- congresses.
Medical Subject Heading
- Archaeology -- Americas -- congresses.
Medical Subject Heading
- Nutritional Physiological Phenomena -- Americas -- congresses.
Medical Subject Heading
- America -- Antiquities -- Congresses.