This handsome volume is the first photographically illustrated textbook to present for both the student and the working archaeologist the anatomy of the human skeleton and the study of skeletal remains from an anthropological perspective. It describes the skeleton as not just a …
Bones of the Maya: Studies of Ancient Skeletons
by Webster, David L., Merriwether, D. Andrew, Cook, Della Collins, Chase, Diane Z., Reed, David M., Steele, D. Gentry, Massey, Virginia K., Whittington, Stephen L., Whittington, Stephen L., Wright, Lori E., Gerry, John P., Jacobi, Keith P., Danforth, Marie Elaine, Storey, Rebecca, Armstrong, Carl, Cohen, Mark N., del Angel, Andres, Ferrell, Robert E., Gettelman, Karen D., Havill, Lorena M., Krueger, Harold W., Olivares, Nora M., Marquez, Lourdes, O'Conner, Kathleen, Pyburn, K. Anne, Saul, Frank P., Saul, Julie Mather, Warren, Diane M., White, Christine D., Buikstra, Jane
During the last 20 years new techniques in osteology have yielded findings on Maya diet and health that challenge the ecological model of collapse. This volume, which includes an index bibliography of the first 150 years of Maya osteology, brings together for the first time, a b…