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The backbone of history : = health and nutrition in the Western Hemisphere /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The backbone of history :/ edited by Richard H. Steckel, Jerome C. Rose.
Reminder of title:	health and nutrition in the Western Hemisphere /
other author:	Steckel, Richard H.
Description:	1 online resource (xx, 633 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Indians - Congresses. - Food -
Subject:	America - Congresses. - Antiquities -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511549953
ISBN:	9780511549953 (ebook)

The backbone of history : = health and nutrition in the Western Hemisphere /
The backbone of history :health and nutrition in the Western Hemisphere /edited by Richard H. Steckel, Jerome C. Rose. - 1 online resource (xx, 633 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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 [and others] -- The poor in the mid-nineteenth century northeastern United States / Rosanne L. Higgins [and others] -- 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 [and others] -- 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 [and others] -- 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 [and others] -- Native Americans of Eastern North America / Paul W. Sciulli and James Oberly -- Cultural longevity in the face of biological stress / Ann L.W. Stodder [and others] -- 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.

For the same reasons that explorers of the early twentieth century strove to reach the poles, and their modern counterparts journey to outer space, most people want to visualize the contours of the human experience - the peaks of adaptive success that led to the expansion of civilization, and the troughs in which human presence ebbed. 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. Thus, pre-Colombian Native Americans were among the healthiest and the least healthy groups to live in the Western Hemisphere before the twentieth century.

ISBN: 9780511549953 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

800175
Indians
--Food--Congresses.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

800170
America
--Antiquities--Congresses.

LC Class. No.: E59.F63 / B33 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 614.4/27

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