Research Catalog

Title

Bioarchaeology of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica : an interdisciplinary approach / edited by Cathy Willermet and Andrea Cucina ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen.

Publication

• Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Willermet, C. M. (Catherine M.), 1968-
• Cucina, Andrea, 1966-
• Larsen, Clark Spencer

Description

xiii, 256 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

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.

Series Statement

Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local, regional, and global perspectives

Uniform Title

Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past.

Subjects

• Mexico
• Indians of Central America > Antiquities
• Antiquities
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
• Indians of Mexico > Antiquities
• Mexico > Antiquities
• Central America > Antiquities

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

Call Number

JFE 19-177

ISBN

• 9780813056005
• 0813056004

LCCN

2017055310

OCLC

1013988340

Title

Bioarchaeology of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica : an interdisciplinary approach / edited by Cathy Willermet and Andrea Cucina ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen.

Publisher

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local, regional, and global perspectives

Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Willermet, C. M. (Catherine M.), 1968- editor.

Cucina, Andrea, 1966- editor.

Larsen, Clark Spencer, writer of foreword.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-177