Disease and demography in the Americas / edited by John W. Verano and Douglas H. Ubelaker
1992, Second Edition. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press. Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #304676
ISBN: 1560984015
Physical description; x, 294 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. Notes; "One of a series of symposia produced as part of Seeds of Change, the National Museum of Natural History's commemoration of the Columbus Quincentenary"--Foreword. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; 1, Disease before and after conquest. Skeletal paleopathology / D.J. Ortner; Prehistoric disease and demography in the Andes / J.W. Verano; Population decline and extinction in La Florida / C.S. Larsen [et al]; Health and disease on the late prehistoric Southeast / M.L. Powell; Health and disease in the southwest before and after Spanish contact / A.L.W. Stodder, D.L. Martin; Demography of prehistoric and early historic northern Plains populations / D.W. Owsley; Diet and disease in late prehistory / J.E. Buikstra; Disease and socio-political systems in late prehistoric Illinois / G.R. Milner; Transformation and disease: precontact Ontario Iroquoians / S.R. Saunders, P.G. Ramsden, D.A. Herring; Effects of contact on the Chumash Indians / P.L. Walker, J.R. Johnson; Impact of disease on the precontact and early historic populations of New England and the Maritimes / C.C. Carlson, G.J. Armelagos, A.L. Magennis; Pre-Columbian treponematosis in coastal North Carolina / G. Bogdan, D.S. Weaver; Summary on disease before and after contact / A.C. Aufderheide; 2, Population size before and after contact. North American Indian population size / D.H. Ubelaker; Disease and population decline in the Northeast / D.R. Snow; Depopulation in the Southeast after 1492 / R. Thornton, J. Warren; Prehistoric population density in the Amazon Basin / B.J. Meggers; Impact of disease in the sixteenth-century Andean world / Noble D. Cook; Native American trade centers / H.F. Dobyns; Population and Spanish contact in the Southwest / S. Upham; Yellow fever and the Africanization of the Caribbean / K.F. Kipple, B.T. Higgins; Population decline from two epidemics on the Northwest coast / R. Boyd; The 1832 inoculation program on the Missouri River / M.K. Trimble; Contact shock in Northwestern New Spain (1518-1764) / D.T. Reff; Summary on population size before and after contact / A.W. Crosby. Subjects; Indians Anthropometry Congresses. Indians Diseases Congresses. Indians Population Congresses. Paleopathology America Congresses. Epidemics America History Congresses. Population studies United States. Indians Anthropometry Congresses. Indians Diseases Congresses. Indians Population Congresses. Paleopathology America Congresses. Epidemics America History Congresses. Population History. Indians, North American history. Disease history. Paleopathology. Antiquities. Epidemics. Indians Anthropometry. Indians Diseases. Indians Population. Paleopathology. Indians Anthropometry ; Congresses. Paleopathology America History ; Congresses. Epidemics America History. Disease : human biology. Indians, North American history congresses. Anthropometry congresses. Disease Outbreaks history America congresses. Indians, Central American history congresses. Paleopathology Congresses. America Antiquities Congresses. American Indians Diseases History. Medical Humanities. Palaeopathology America. Indians of America Diseases. Indians of America Population. Epidemics America. Genres; Bibliography. Conference proceedings. Conference publication. Illustrated.
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