{"product_id":"the-backbone-of-history-health-and-nutrition-in-the-western-hemisphere-hardback-9780521801676","title":"The Backbone of History; Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere (Hardback) 9780521801676","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Backbone of History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHealth and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn assessment of skeletal evidence on health indicators, to assess chronic conditions that affected Western populations.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRichard H. Steckel (Edited by), Jerome C. Rose (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521801676, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 August 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e654 pages, 64 b\/w illus.  18 maps  140 tables\u003cbr\u003e24 x 16 x 4 cm, 1.07 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"In this pathbreaking volume, the product of a massive NSF-funded project, more than 50 scholars (mostly anthropologists) systematically assess the health of North, South, and Central Americans using skeletal remains dating from over 7,000 years ago to the early 20th century.... Highly recommended.\"   Choice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFor the same reasons that explorers of the early twentieth century strove to reach the poles, and their modern counterparts journey to outer space, most people want to visualize the contours of the human experience - the peaks of adaptive success that led to the expansion of civilization, and the troughs in which human presence ebbed. The Backbone of History defines the emerging field of macrobioarchaeology by gathering skeletal evidence on seven basic indicators of health to assess chronic conditions that affected individuals who lived in the Western Hemisphere from 5000 BC to the late nineteenth century. Signs of biological stress in childhood and of degeneration in joints and in teeth increased in the several millennia before the arrival of Columbus as populations moved into less healthy ecological environments. Thus, pre-Colombian Native Americans were among the healthiest and the least healthy groups to live in the Western Hemisphere before the twentieth century.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I: 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Methodology: 2. Reconstructing health profiles from skeletal remains Alan H. Goodman and Debra L. Martin\u003cbr\u003e 3. A health index from skeletal remains Richard H. Steckel, Paul W. Sciulli and Jerome C. Rose\u003cbr\u003e 4. Paleodemography of the Americas Robert McCaa\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Euro-Americans and African Americans in North America: 5. The health of the middle class: the St. Thomas Anglican church cemetery project Shelly Saunders, Ann Herring, Larry Sawchuck, Gerry Boyce, Rob Hoppa and Susan Klepp\u003cbr\u003e 6. The poor in the mid-nineteenth century Northeastern United States Rosanne L. Higgins, Michael R. Haines, Lorena Walsh and Joyce E. Sirianni\u003cbr\u003e 7. The effects of nineteenth-century military service on health Paul S. Sledzik and Lars G. Sandberg\u003cbr\u003e 8. The health of slaves and free blacks in the East Ted A. Rathbun and Richard H. Steckel\u003cbr\u003e 9. The quality of African American life in the Southwest near the turn of the twentieth century James Davidson, Jerome Rose, Myron Gutmann, Michael Haines, Keith Condon and Cindy Condon\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Native Americans in Central America: 10. Social disruption and the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica Rebecca Storey, Lourdes Marquez Morfin and Vernon Smith\u003cbr\u003e 11. Health and nutrition in some Prehispanic Mesoamerican populations related with their way of life Lourdes Marquez Morfin, Robert McCaa, Rebecca Storey and Andres Del Angel\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Native Americans and Euro-Americans in South America: 12. Patterns of health and nutrition in prehistoric and historic Ecuador Douglas H. Ubelaker and Linda A. Newson\u003cbr\u003e 13. Economy, nutrition and disease in Southern, Coastal Brazil Walter Neves and Verônica Wesolowski\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. Native Americans in North America: 14. A biohistory of health and behavior in the Georgia Bight Clark Larsen, Alfred Crosby, et al.\u003cbr\u003e 15. Native Americans of Eastern North America Paul W. Sciulli and James Oberly\u003cbr\u003e 16. Cultural longevity in the face of biological stress Ann L. W. Stodder, Debra L. Martin, Alan H. Goodman and Daniel T. Reff\u003cbr\u003e 17. Health, nutrition, and demographic change in Native California Phillip L. Walker and Russell Thornton\u003cbr\u003e 18. Welfare history on the Great Plains S. Ryan Johansson and Douglas Owsley\u003cbr\u003e Part VII: 19. Patterns of health in the Western Hemisphere Richard H. Steckel and Jerome C. Rose\u003cbr\u003e Part VIII: 20. Conclusions Richard H. Steckel and Jerome C. Rose\u003cbr\u003e Part IX. Epilogue: 21. The body as evidence: the body of evidence George J. Armelagos and Peter J. Brown\u003cbr\u003e 22. Over-specialization and remedies Philip D. 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