Bioarchaeology of Native American adaptation in the Spanish borderlands

Baker, Brenda J. (Added Author). Kealhofer, Lisa. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0813014646 (acid-free paper)
ISBN: 9780813014647 (acid-free paper)
Physical Description: print
xii, 232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c1996.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Assessing the impact of European contact on aboriginal populations / Brenda J. Baker and Lisa Kealhofer -- Bioarchaeological investigations: Protohistoric aborigines in West-Central Alabama : probable correlations to early European contact / M. Cassandra Hill. Sociopolitical devolution in Northeast Mississippi and the timing of the de Soto entrada / Jay K. Johnson and Geoffrey R. Lehmann. Evidence for demographic collapse in California / Lisa Kealhofer -- Skeletal biology and paleopidemiology: Implications of changing biomechanical and nutritional environments for activity and lifeway in the Eastern Spanish borderlands / Clark Spencer Larsen, Christopher B. Ruff, and Mark C. Griffin. Effect of European contact on the health of indigenous populations in Texas / Elizabeth Miller. Paleopidemiology of Eastern and Western Pueblo communities in protohistoric and early historic New Mexico / Ann L.W. Stodder -- Theoretical perspectives and prospects: Historic depopulation in the American Southwest : issues of interpretation and context-embedded analyses / Ann M. Palkovich. Prospects and problems in contact-era research / George R. Milner. Counterpoint to collapse : depopulation and adaptation / Lisa Kealhofer and Brenda J. Baker.