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Bones of the Maya : studies of ancient skeletons /

"Collection defines current state of Mayan skeletal studies. Coverage spans the formative through colonial periods, with a geographic focus on the Maya lowlands of northern Guatemala, Belize, and western Honduras. Includes osteological, dental, bone chemistry, and DNA analyses. Diet and health...

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Other Authors: Whittington, Stephen L., Reed, David M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Smithonian Institution Press, c1997.
Subjects:
Mayas > Anthropometry.
Human remains (Archaeology) > Mexico.
Human remains (Archaeology) > Central America.
Mayas > Antiquities.
Paleopathology.
Anthropometry.
Indians, Central American > history.
Indians, North American > history.
Archaeology.
Mexico > Antiquities.
Central America > Antiquities.
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Table of Contents:
  • Studying Maya burials /
  • David Webster
  • Southern lowland Maya archaeology and human skeletal remains: interpretations from Caracol (Belize), Santa Rita Corozal (Belize), and Tayasal (Guatemala) /
  • Diane Z. Chase
  • Preclassic skeletons from Cuello /
  • Julie Mather Saul and Frank P. Saul
  • Height among prehispanic Maya of the Yucantan Peninsula: a reconsideration /
  • Lourdes Marquez and Andres del Angel
  • Maya skull pit from the terminal classic period, Colha, Belize /
  • Virginia K. Massey and D. Gentry Steele
  • Archaeology and osteology of the Tipu site /
  • Mark N. Cohen, Kathleen O'Connor, Marie Elaine Danforth, Keith P. Jacobi, and Carl Armstrong.
  • Late postclassic tooth filing at Chau Hiix and Tipu, Belize /
  • Lorena M. Havill, Diane M. Warren, Keith P. Jacobi, Karen D. Gettelman, Della Collins Cook, and K. Anne Pyburn
  • Cultural odontology: dental alterations from Peten, Guatemala /
  • Nora M. Lopez Olivares
  • Individual fraility, children of privelege, and stress in late classic Copan /
  • Rebecca Storey
  • Late classic Maya health patterns: evidence from enamel microdefects /
  • Marie Elaine Danforth
  • Dental genetic structuring of a colonial Maya cemetery, Tipu, Belize /
  • Keith P. Jacobi.
  • Commoner diet at Copan: insights from stable isotopes and porotic hyperostosis /
  • Stephen L. Whittington and David M. Reed
  • Ancient diet at Lamanai and Pacbitun: implications for the ecological model of collapse /
  • Christine D. White
  • Ecology or society? Paleodiet and the collapse of the Pasion Maya lowlands /
  • Lori E. Wright
  • Regional diversity in classic Maya diets /
  • John P. Gerry and Harold W. Krueger
  • Ancient and contemporary mitochondrial DNA variation in the Maya /
  • D. Andrew Merriwether, David M. Reed, and Robert E. Ferrell.
  • Studying Maya bioarchaeology /
  • Jane E. Buikstra.

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