| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 260 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Ancient Maya Diet / Christine D. White -- Botanical and Faunal Analyses -- Plant Resources of the Ancient Maya: The Paleoethnobotanical Evidence / David L. Lentz -- Classification of Useful Plants by the Northern Peten Maya (Itzaj) / Scott Atran -- Continuity and Variability in 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 -- Paleopathology -- 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, James F. Garber -- Dietary Change of the Lowland Maya Site of Kichpanha, Belize / Ann L. Magennis -- Caries and Antemortem Tooth Loss at Copan: Implications for Commoner Diet / Stephen L. Whittington -- Late Classic Nutrition and Skeletal Indicators at Copan, Honduras / Rebecca Storey -- Bone Chemistry -- Cuisine from Hun-Nal-Ye / David Millard Reed -- Elements of Maya Diets: Alkaline Earth Baselines and Paleodietary Reconstruction in the Pasion Region / Lori E. Wright -- Dietary Carbonate Analysis of Bone and Enamel for Two Sites in Belize / Shannon Coyston, Christine D. White, Henry P. Schwarcz. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mayas -- Food.
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Mayas -- Food. |
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Mayas. |
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Mayas -- Nutrition.
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Nutrition. |
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Central America -- Antiquities.
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Central America. |
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Antiquities. |
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Mexico -- Antiquities.
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Mexico. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
White, Christine D., 1951-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reconstructing ancient Maya diet. Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©1999 087480602X (DLC) 99015542 (OCoLC)41315339 |
| ISBN |
0585146799 (electronic book) |
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9780585146799 (electronic book) |
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