Reconstructing ancient Maya diet
By: edited by Christine D. White.
Contributors: White, Christine D., 1951-
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Mayas -- Food; Mayas -- Nutrition; Central America -- Antiquities; Mexico -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Plant resources of the ancient Maya: the paleoethnobotanical evidence / David L. Lentz; title: Classification of useful plants by the Northern Petén Maya (Itzaj )/ Scott Atran; title: Continuity and variability in the postclassic and colonial animal use at Lamanai and Tipu, Belize / Kitty F. Emery; title: Social and ecological aspects of preclassic Maya meat consumption at Colha, Belize / Leslie C. Shaw; title: coming up short: stature and nutrition among the ancient Maya of the southern lowlands / Marie Elaine Danforth; title: Land use, diet, and their effects on the biology of the prehistoric Maya of northern Ambergris Cay, Belize / David M. Glassman and James F. Garber; title: Dietary change of the lowland Maya site of Kichpanha, Belize / Ann L. Magennis; title: Caries and antemortem tooth loss at Copán: implications for commoner diet / Stephen L. Whittington; title: Late classic nutrition and skeletal indicators at Copán, Honduras / Rebecca Storey; title: Cuisine from Hun-Nal-Ye / David Millard Reed; title: The elements of Maya diets: alkaline earth baselines and paleodietary reconstruction in the Pasión region / Lori E. Wright; title: Dietary carbonate analysis of bone and enamel for two sites in Belize / Shannon Coyston, Christine D. White, and Henry P. Schwarcz.