Integrates recent data from bone-chemistry research, paleopathology, paleobotany, zooarchaeology, and ethnobotany to show what the ancient Maya actually ate at various periods and how it affected the quality of their lives.
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Integrates recent data from bone-chemistry research, paleopathology, paleobotany, zooarchaeology, and ethnobotany to show what the ancient Maya actually ate at various periods and how it affected the quality of their lives.
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VG (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and clear. ) Dark brown boards with bronze illustration and lettering; xxvii, 260 pp, bw illustrations. Annotation In light of recently discovered population centers of pre-colonial Maya that could not have been sustained by the slash-and-burn agriculture which most anthropologists believe was the dominant method of food production for the culture, the editors of this volume view the analysis of the Maya diet as particularly important for understanding the pre-Columbian population. They present 12 papers that discuss evidence from the fields of faunal and botanical analysis, paleopathology, and bone chemistry. -publisher's description. Contents: Plant resources of the ancient Maya: the paleoethnobotanical evidence / David L. Lentz--Classification of useful plants by the Northern Petén Maya (Itzaj)/ Scott Atran--Continuity and variability in the postclassic and colonial animal use at Lamanai and Tipu, Belize / Kitty F. Emery--Social and ecological aspects of preclassic Maya meat consumption at Colha, Belize / Leslie C. Shaw--coming up short: stature and nutrition among the ancient Maya of the southern lowlands / Marie Elaine Danforth--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--Dietary change of the lowland Maya site of Kichpanha, Belize / Ann L. Magennis--Caries and antemortem tooth loss at Copán: implications for commoner diet / Stephen L. Whittington--Late classic nutrition and skeletal indicators at Copán, Honduras / Rebecca Storey--Cuisine from Hun-Nal-Ye / David Millard Reed--The elements of Maya diets: alkaline earth baselines and paleodietary reconstruction in the Pasión region / Lori E. Wright--Dietary carbonate analysis of bone and enamel for two sites in Belize / Shannon Coyston, Christine D. White, and Henry P. Schwarcz.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.
