The Routledge Handbook of Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology

This volume brings together a range of contributors with different and hybrid academic backgrounds to explore, through bioarchaeology, the past human experience in the territories that span Mesoamerica.

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INTRODUCTION * Vera Tiesler

• Part I: FRAMING MESOAMERICAN BIOARCHAEOLOGY 1.1. The Early Days of Mesoamerican Osteology * Andrew K. Scherer

• 1.2. Management And Conservation Of Human Remains From Mesoamerica. Ethical, Legal And Technical Recommendations * Maria del Carmen Lerma Gómez and Juan Manuel Argüelles San Milán
• 1.3. The Preceramic Skeletal Record of Mexico and Central America * James C. Chatters, Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales, and Pilar Luna-Erreguerena
• 1.4. North of Mesoamerica: Bioarchaeology of the Northwest, North-Central, and Northeast * Patricia Olga Hernández Espinoza and James T. Watson
• 1.5. Bioarchaeological Perspective in the Southern Periphery of Mesoamerica: Future Power of the Discipline * Shintaro Suzuki

• Part II: BIOARCHAEOLOGY ACROSS THE MESOAMERICAN LANDSCAPES 2.1. The Bioarchaeology of Preclassic Mesoamerica and the Advent of Statehood * Mónica Rodríguez Pérez

• 2.2. Bioarchaeology of Oaxaca: Major Developments in the Study of 3,500 years of Mortuary Practice in Southern Mexico * Ricardo Higelin Ponce de León and Guy David Hepp
• 2.3. Maya Bioarchaeology * Andrew K. Scherer and Joshua T. Schnell
• 2.4. The People of the Southern Central Region of Veracruz * Carlos Serrano Sánchez and Mireya Montiel Mendoza
• 2.5. The Bioarchaeology of the Central Highlands of Mesoamerica from the Early Classic Period through the Toltec Period * Emily J. Kate and Meggan Bullock
• 2.6. The Heartland of the Empire: Studying the Aztecs * Ximena Chávez Balderas, Diana K. Moreiras Reynaga and Diana Bustos Ríos

• Part III: THE BIOARCHAEOLOGY OF COMMUNITIES AND NEIGHBORHOODS 3.1. The Inhabitants of Monte Albán: A Bioarchaeological Approach * Lourdes Márquez Morfín and Aurora Marcela Pérez-Flórez

• 3.2. The Multiethnic Population of a Teotihuacan Neighborhood Center: Bioarchaeological, Archaeometric, and Ancient DNA Analyses * Linda Manzanilla
• 3.3. The Community of Xcambó, a Classic-period Maya Port in the Yucatan Peninsula * Thelma Sierra Sosa, Allan Ortega-Muñoz, and Andrea Cucina
• 3.4. Bioarchaeology in Copan, Honduras: A Spearhead of Mayan Bioarchaeology * Shintaro Suzuki and T. Douglas Price

• Part IV: THE BODY AS A CULTURAL CONSTRUCT 4.1. The Bioarchaeology of Permanent Mesoamerican Body Modifications * Vera Tiesler

• 4.2. Royal Bodies: The Life Histories of Janaab' Pakal and The "Red Queen" of Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico * Erik Velásquez García and Vera Tiesler
• 4.3. Archaeothanatology: A Body-Anchored Approach to Mesoamerican Mortuary Analyses * Grégory Pereira and Hemmamuthé Goudiaby
• 4.4. The Bioarchaeology of Ritualized Violence and Posthumous Treatments of the Human Body in Mesoamerica * Judith Ruiz and Vera Tiesler

• Part V: LIFESTYLE, DIET, AND HEALTH 5.1. Mesoamerican Paleopathology: A Bioarchaeological Approach to Diseases from the Past * Raúl López Pérez

• 5.2. Living Conditions, Gender, and Stature * Marie Elaine Danforth, Jaime Thomas, and Peter Mercier
• 5.3. Geographic Variation in Mesoamerican Paleodiets: A Review of Recent Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Analyses * Victoria S. R. Izzo, Lori E. Wright, and Alex Canterbury

• Part VI: POPULATION AND MOBILITY 6.1. Population Continuity and Mobility Across Mesoamerica * Cathy Willermet, Corey S. Ragsdale, and Heather J.H. Edgar

• 6.2. Baseline Strontium Isotope Ratios in Mesoamerica * T. Douglas Price and Carolyn Freiwald
• 6.3. The Paleo-DNA of Ancient Mesoamerican Peoples * Víctor Acuña Alonzo and Miguel Angel Contreras Sieck
• 6.4. Population Structure, Fertility and Growth * Allan Ortega Muñoz and Patricia Hernández Espinoza
• 6.5. The Craniometry of Mesoamerican Population Distances * Jorge Gómez Valdés

• Part VII: BREAKING NEW GROUNDS IN METHODOLOGY 7.1. 3D Digitization and Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains for Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology * Gabriel Wrobel

• 7.2. Methods in Bioarchaeology: What's New in Profiling an Individual Inside and Out * Carolyn Freiwald, Jonathan Belanich, and Asta Rand
• 7.3. Histomorphology of Un-Decalcified Bone in Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology * Corey Maggiano and Isabel Maggiano
• 7.4. The Phenomenon of Mummification in Ancient Mexico * Josefina Mansilla Lory and Ilán S. Leboreiro Reyna

• Part VIII: THE BIOARCHAEOLOGY OF THE THRESHOLDS OF MODERNITY: LEARNING FROM THE PAST TO UNDERSTAND OUR CHALLENGES OF TODAY 8.1. The Bioarchaeology of Colonial New Spain * Julie K. Wesp

• 8.2. The Serdan Brothers: Reconstructing the Mortuary Trajectory of the Three Heroes of the Mexican Revolution * Luisa Mainou and Jorge A. Gómez Valdés
• 8.3. General Trends in Size in Maya Populations of the Yucatan Peninsula from the Preclassic to the 2010s. A Diachronic Perspective from Human Ecology * Hugo Azcorra, Saul Chay, Oana del Castillo, and Federico Dickinson
• 8.4. Making Research of Human Reference Collections to Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Available * Julio Roberto Chi Keb, Antinea Menéndez Garmendia, Gabriela Sánchez Mejorada, and Jorge Gómez Valdés *