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Author Steckel, Richard H. (Richard Hall), 1944-

Title The backbone of history : health and nutrition in the Western Hemisphere / edited by Richard H. Steckel, Jerome C. Rose
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002

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Description xx, 633 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Contents 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 VerĂ´nica 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
Summary The Backbone of History defines the emerging field of macrobioarchaeology by gathering skeletal evidence on seven basic indicators of health to assess chronic conditions that affected individuals who lived in the Western Hemisphere from 5000 BC to the late nineteenth century. Signs of biological stress in childhood and of degeneration in joints and in teeth increased in the several millennia before the arrival of Columbus as populations moved into less healthy ecological environments. [publisher]
Notes 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Indians of North Amerca -- Health and hygiene -- History -- Congresses
Indians of North America -- Food -- History -- Congresses.
Nutrition -- America -- History -- Congresses.
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.
SUBJECT Americas -- Antiquities http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004221 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Steckel, Richard H. (Richard Hall), 1944-
Rose, Jerome C
LC no. 2001037965
ISBN 0521801672 :