What mean these bones? : studies in southeastern bioarchaeology / edited by Mary Lucas Powell, Patricia S. Bridges, Ann Marie Wagner Mires.

Other author Powell, Mary Lucas.
Other author Bridges, Patricia S.
Other author Mires, Ann Marie.
Format Book
Publication InfoTuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1991.
Description[xi], 229 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Subjects
Indians of North America--Southern States. --Anthropometry.
Anthropometry--Southern States.
Indians of North America--Southern States. --Antiquities.
Southern States--Antiquities.

Contents Bioarchaeology and subsistence in the central and lower portions of the Mississippi Valley / Jerome C. Rose, Murray K. Marks, and Larry L. Tieszen -- Ranked status and health in the Mississippian chiefdom at Moundville / Mary Lucas Powell -- Health and cultural change in the Late Prehistoric American Bottom, Illinois / George R. Milner -- Mississippian cultural terminations in Middle Tennessee : what the bioarchaeological evidence can tell us / Leslie E. Eisenberg -- Skeletal evidence of changes in subsistence activities between the Archaic and Mississippian time periods in Northwestern Alabama / Patrica S. Bridges.
Contents Biomechanical adaptation and behavior on the prehistoric Georgia coast / Clark Spencer Larsen and Christopher B. Ruff -- Sifting the ashes ; reconstruction of a complex archaic mortuary program in Louisiana / Ann Marie Wagner Mires -- The prehistoric people of Fort Center : physical and health characteristics / Patricia Miller-Shaivitz and Mehmet Yasar Iscan -- Status and health in Colonial South Carolina : Belleview Plantation, 1738-1756 / Ted A. Rathbun and James D. Scurry -- Bioarchaeology in a broader context / Bruce D. Smith -- Out of the appendix and into the dirt : comments on thirteen years of bioarchaeological research / Jane E. Buikstra.
General note"A Dan Josselyn memorial publication."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 189-220) and index.
LCCN 89020455
ISBN0817304843 (alk. paper)