| Description |
x, 294 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Note |
"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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Skeletal paleopathology : probabilities, possibilities, and impossibilities / Donald J. Ortner -- Prehistoric disease and demography in the Andes / John W. Verano -- Population decline and extinction in La Florida / Clark Spencer Larsen ... [et al.] -- Health and disease in the late prehistoric Southeast / Mary Lucas Powell -- Health and disease in the Southwest before and after Spanish contact / Ann L.W. Stodder and Debra L. Martin -- Demography of prehistoric and early historic Northern Plains populations / Douglas W. Owsley -- Diet and disease in late prehistory / Jane E. Buikstra -- Disease and sociopolitical systems in late prehistoric Illinois / George R. Milner -- Transformation and disease : precontact Ontario Iroquoians / Shelley R. Saunders, Peter G. Ramsden, and D. Ann Herring. |
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Effects of contact on the Chumash Indians / Phillip L. Walker and John R. Johnson -- Impact of disease on the precontact and early historic populations of New England and the Maritimes / Catherine C. Carlson, George J. Armelagos, and Ann L. Magennis -- Pre-Columbian treponematosis in coastal North Carolina / Georgieann Bogdan and David S. Weaver -- Summary on disease before and after contact / Arthur C. Aufderheide -- North American Indian population size : changing perspectives / Douglas H. Ubelaker -- Disease and population decline in the Northeast / Dean R. Snow -- Depopulation in the Southeast after 1492 / Russell Thornton, Jonathan Warren, and Tim Miller -- Prehisotric population density in the Amazon Basin / Betty J. Meggers. |
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Impact of disease in the sixteenth-century Andean world / Noble David Cook -- Native American trade centers as contagious disease foci / Henry F. Dobyns -- Population and Spanish contact in the Southwest / Steadman Upham -- Yellow fever and the Africanization of the Caribbean / Kenneth F. Kiple and Brian T. Higgins -- Population decline from two epidemics on the Northwest coast / Robert Boyd -- The 1832 inoculation program on the Missouri River / Michael K. Trimble -- Contact shock in Northwestern New Spain, 1518-1764 / Daniel T. Reff -- Summary on population size before and after contact / Alfred W. Crosby. |
| Subject |
Indians -- Anthropometry -- Congresses.
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Indians -- Anthropometry. |
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Indians -- Diseases -- Congresses.
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Indians -- Diseases. |
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Indians. |
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Indians -- Population -- Congresses.
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Indians -- Population. |
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Paleopathology -- America -- Congresses.
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Paleopathology. |
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America. |
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Epidemics -- America -- History -- Congresses.
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Epidemics. |
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History. |
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America -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
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Antiquities. |
| Indexed Term |
American Indians Diseases History |
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America |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Verano, John W.
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Ubelaker, Douglas H.
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National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
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| ISBN |
1560981636 |
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