Research Catalog

Title

Paleonutrition : the diet and health of prehistoric Americans / edited by Kristin D. Sobolik.

Publication

[Carbondale] : Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, c1994.

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Additional Authors

• Sobolik, Kristin D. (Kristin Dee)
• Visiting Scholar Conference (9th : 1992 : Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)
• Annual Visiting Scholar Conference (9th : 1992 : Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)

Description

xviii, 321 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.

Summary

Scholars working in all aspects of dietary and health reconstruction present their research and its applications to the study of paleonutrition, the limitations of each dietary assemblage in determining paleonutrition, and how those limitations can be alleviated. The 24 scholars present data on the advances that have been made in understanding the nutrition of prehistoric Americans and how those studies have helped define the integrative basis of such research. -- Wright State University Library

Series Statement

Occasional paper / Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale ; no. 22

Uniform Title

Occasional paper (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Center for Archaeological Investigations) ; no. 22.

Alternative Title

Diet and health of prehistoric Americans

Subject

• Animal remains (Archaeology) > Congresses
• Plant remains (Archaeology) > Congresses
• Paleoethnobotany > Congresses
• Paleo-Indians > Food > Congresses
• Indians of North America > Nutrition > Congresses
• Indians > Nutrition > Congresses
• Prehistoric peoples > Food > America > Congresses
• Archaeology > Methodology > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• "Papers presented at the Ninth Annual Visiting Scholar Conference, 'Paleonutrition: The Diet and Health of Prehistoric Americans', at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, March 27-28, 1992"--P. xvii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Value of Archaeological Plant Remains for Paleodietary Reconstruction -- The Value of Archaeological Faunal Remains for Paleodietary Reconstruction: A Case Study for the Midwestern United States -- Nutrition, Small Mammals, and Agriculture -- The Integration and Quantification of Economic Data from a Late Preclassic Maya Community in Belize -- feeding Specialists: The Effect of Specialization on Subsistence Variation -- Indirect Evidence in Paleonutrition Studies -- Corn Preparation among the Basketmaker Anasazi: A Scanning Electron Microscope Study of Zea Mays Remains from Coprolites -- Anasazi Diet: Variety in the Holy House and Lion House Coprolite Record and Nutritional Analysis -- Callen's Legacy -- Cartesian Reductionism and Vulgar Adaptationism: Issues in the Interpretation of Nutritional Status in Prehistory -- Diet and Health of Paleoindians: An Examination of Early Holocene Human Dental Remains -- Dietary Reconstruction from Human Bone Isotopes for Five Coastal New England Populations -- Ancient Maya Diet at Copan, Honduras, as Determined Through the Analysis of Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes -- Health in Transition: Disease and Nutrition in the Georgia Bight -- "You Are What You Eat" -- Paleonutrition of the Lower Pecos Region of the Chihuahuan Desert -- Paleonutrition at Grasshopper Pueblo, Arizona -- Food, Diet, and Population at Arroyo Hondo Pueblo -- Paleonutrition: Implications for Contemporary Native Americans -- The Past, Present, and Future of Paleonutritional Research.

ISBN

0881040789

LCCN

^^^93070265^

OCLC

• 31061365
• SCSB-10090276

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library