| Title |
Bioarchaeology of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica : an interdisciplinary approach / edited by Cathy Willermet and Andrea Cucina ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen. |
| OCLC |
1013988340 |
| ISBN |
9780813056005 cloth ; alk. paper |
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0813056004 cloth ; alk. paper |
| Publisher |
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018] |
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©2018. |
| Description |
xiii, 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities.
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Indians of Central America -- Antiquities.
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Mexico -- Antiquities.
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Central America -- Antiquities.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction / Cathy Willermet and Andrea Cucina -- 2. On interdisciplinarity in bioarchaeology / Cathy Willermet -- Part I. Migration and Mobility: 3. Population continuity and replacement in the pre-contact valley of Mexico / Corey S. Ragsdale and Heather J.H. Edgar ; 4. Isotopes, dental morphology, and human provenience at the Maya site of Yaxuná, Yucatán, Mexico: mobility, interaction, and ethnicity / T. Douglas Price, Travis W. Stanton, and Andrea Cucina ; 5. Biological affinities and mortuary archaeology in coastal northern populations of Yucatán at the end of the postclassic period: demic considerations / Andrea Cucina, Allan Ortega and Sandra Verónica Elizalde Rodarte -- Part II. Ethnicity and Social Identity: 6. Understanding late classic Maya mortuary ritual in caves: dental evidence of health from macro- and microscopic defects and caries / Amy R. Michael, Gabriel D. Wrobel and Jack Biggs ; 7. True people, foreigners, and the framing of Maya morality / Andrew K. Scherer, Charles Golden, and Stephen Houston ;dg8. Human migration and ethnic expression in the southeastern borderland of Mesoamerica: a bioarchaeological perspective from Copan, Honduras / Shintaro Suzuki, Vera Tiesler, and T. Douglas Price -- Part III. Conclusion: 9. Interdisciplinary approaches in Mesoamerica: taking stock / Frances F. Berdan. |
| Summary |
This edited volume presents work from both Mesoamerican-based and U.S.-based researchers who use a combination of cultural ethnohistorical, (bio)archaeological, dental, and chemical data in an interdisciplinary approach to research population history in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. The goals for such a project are threefold: 1) to encourage more cross-fertilization of work between fields and subfields, in order to more appropriately address large regional questions of population history; 2) to explicitly address the theoretical and methodological challenges and rewards of interdisciplinary work; and 3) to introduce a larger audience to the state of interdisciplinary work in Mesoamerica. |
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