Bioarchaeological studies of life in the age of agriculture [[electronic resource] ] : a view from the Southeast / / edited by Patricia M. Lambert

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778830103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2000
• ISBN: 0-8173-8314-X; 0-585-36025-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (299 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): LambertPatricia M. <1958->
• Disciplina: 614.4/275; 975.01
• Soggetti: Indians of North America - Southern States - Antiquities; Indians of North America - Health and hygiene - Southern States; Indians of North America - Anthropometry - Southern States; Mississippian culture; Southern States Antiquities Congresses
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-272) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Patricia M. Lambert -- Ancient diseases, modern perspectives : treponematosis and tuberculosis in the age of agriculture / Mary Lucas Powell -- Warfare-related trauma in the late prehistory of Alabama / Patricia S. Bridges, Keith P. Jacobi, Mary Lucas Powell -- Transitions at Moundville : a question of collapse / Margaret J. Schoeninger, Lisa Sattenspiel, Mark R. Schurr -- Dental health at early historic Fusihatchee Town : biocultural implications of contact in Alabama / Marianne Reeves -- Agricultural melodies and alternative harmonies in Florida and Georgia / Dale L. Hutchinson ... [et al.] -- Inferring iron-deficiency anemia from human skeletal remains : the case of the Georgia Bight / Clark Spencer Larsen, Leslie E. Sering -- A comparison of degenerative joint disease between upland and coastal prehistoric agriculturalists from Georgia / Matthew A. Williamson -- Dental health and late woodland subsistence in coastal North Carolina / Elizabeth Monahan Driscoll, David S. Weaver -- Life on the periphery : health in farming communities of interior North Carolina and Virginia / Patricia M. Lambert -- "Utmost confusion" reconsidered : ; bioarchaeology and secondary burial in late prehistoric interior Virginia / Debra L. Gold.
• Sommario/riassunto: Investigations of skeletal remains from key archaeological sites reveal new data and offer insights on prehistoric life and health in the Southeast. The shift from foraging to farming had important health consequences for prehistoric peoples, but variations in health existed within communities that had made this transition. This new collection draws on the rich bioarchaeological record of the Southeastern United States to explore variability in health and behavior within the age of agriculture. It offers new perspectives on human adaptation to various geogr