Ancient health
Subtitle: skeletal indicators of agricultural and economic intensification
By: edited by Mark Nathan Cohen and Gillian Crane-Kramer.
Contributors: Cohen, Mark Nathan.; Crane-Kramer, Gillian Margaret Mountford.
Series: Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813028682
Subjects: Human remains (Archaeology); Human skeleton -- Analysis; Paleopathology; Paleoanthropology; Agriculture -- Origins; Prehistoric peoples -- Health and hygiene
Notes: Revisions of papers presented at a conference held in April 2004 in Clearwater Beach, Fla.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Maize and Mississippians in the American Midwest : twenty years later / Della Collins Cook; title: Health and lifestyle in Georgia and Florida : agricultural origins and intensification in regional perspective / Clark Spencer Larsen ... [et al.]; title: A brief continental view from Windover / Glen H. Doran; title: Outer coast foragers and inner coast farmers in late prehistoric North Carolina / Dale L. Hutchinson, Lynette Norr, and Mark F. Teaford; title: Health and the transition to horticulture in the south-central United States / Marie Elaine Danforth ... [et al.]; title: From early village to regional center in Mesoamerica : an investigation of lifestyles and health / Lourdes Marquez Morfin and Rebecca Storey; title: Skeletal biology of the central Peruvian coast : consequences of changing population density and progressive dependence on maize agriculture / Ekaterina A. Pechenkina ... [et al.]; title: The adoption of agriculture among northern Chile populations in the Azapa Valley, 9000-1000 BP / Marta P. Alfonso, Vivien G. Standen, and M. Victoria Castro; title: Population plasticity in southern Scandinavia : from oysters and fish to gruel and meat / Pia Bennike and Verner Alexandersen; title: The impact of economic intensification and social complexity on human health in Britain from 6000 BP (Neolithic) and the introduction of farming to the mid-nineteenth century AD / Charlotte Roberts and Margaret Cox; title: What can pathology say about the Mesolithic and Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic communities? : the Portuguese case / Eugenia Cunha ... [et al.]; title: Ecology, politics, and health in Bahrain / Judith Littleton; title: Skeletal and dental health and subsistence change in the United Arab Emirates / Soren Blau; title: Ancestors and inheritors : a bioanthropological perspective on the transition to agropastoralism in the southern Levant / Patricia Smith and Liora Kolska Horwitz; title: The health of foragers : people of the later Stone Age, southern Africa / Susan Pfeiffer; title: Climate, subsistence, and health in prehistoric India : the biological impact of a short-term subsistence shift / John R. Lukacs; title: Iron-deficiency anemia in early Mongolian nomads / Naran Bazarsad; title: Diet and health in the Neolithic of the Wei and middle Yellow River basins, northern China / Ekaterina A. Pechenkina, Robert A. Benfer Jr., and Ma Xiaolin; title: Prehistoric dietary transitions in tropical Southeast Asia : stable isotope and dental caries evidence from two sites in Malaysia / John Krigbaum; title: Population health from the Bronze to the Iron Age in the Mun River Valley, northeastern Thailand / Kate Domett and Nancy Tayles; title: Biological consequences of sedentism : agricultural intensification in northeastern Thailand / Michele Toomay Douglas and Michael Pietrusewsky; title: Editors' summation / Mark Nathan Cohen and Gillian Crane-Kramer.