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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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** Vera Tiesler** is Research Professor at the Mexican Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, in Mérida, where she heads the Laboratory of Bioarchaeology. She received her BA in Art History from Tulane University, an MA in Archaeology at the Mexican Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH), and a PhD in Anthropology at the National University of Mexico (UNAM), with five accredited years of Medical School (MHH, Hannover, Germany, and IPN, Mexico). Tiesler's academic interest lies in illuminating the human condition of the ancient Maya and of past society in general.Contenu
INTRODUCTION * Vera Tiesler
Part I: FRAMING MESOAMERICAN BIOARCHAEOLOGY 1.1. The Early Days of Mesoamerican Osteology * Andrew K. Scherer
Part II: BIOARCHAEOLOGY ACROSS THE MESOAMERICAN LANDSCAPES 2.1. The Bioarchaeology of Preclassic Mesoamerica and the Advent of Statehood * Mónica Rodríguez Pérez
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
Part IV: THE BODY AS A CULTURAL CONSTRUCT 4.1. The Bioarchaeology of Permanent Mesoamerican Body Modifications * Vera Tiesler
Part V: LIFESTYLE, DIET, AND HEALTH 5.1. Mesoamerican Paleopathology: A Bioarchaeological Approach to Diseases from the Past * Raúl López Pérez
Part VI: POPULATION AND MOBILITY 6.1. Population Continuity and Mobility Across Mesoamerica * Cathy Willermet, Corey S. Ragsdale, and Heather J.H. Edgar
Part VII: BREAKING NEW GROUNDS IN METHODOLOGY 7.1. 3D Digitization and Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains for Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology * Gabriel Wrobel
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