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

Other author/creatorPowell, Mary Lucas.
Other author/creatorBridges, Patricia S.
Other author/creatorMires, Ann Marie.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoTuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1991.
Description[xi], 229 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Subject(s)
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)

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