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Bones of the Maya: Studies of Ancient Skeletons

edited by Stephen L. Whittington and David M. Reed
contributions by Carl Armstrong, Diane Z. Chase, Mark N. Cohen, Della Collins Cook, Andres del Angel, Robert E. Ferrell, Stephen L. Whittington, Karen D. Gettelman, Lorena M. Havill, Harold W. Krueger, Nora M. Olivares, Lourdes Marquez, Virginia K. Massey, D. Andrew Merriwether, Kathleen O'Conner, Oswaldo Chincilla Mazariegos, Frank P. Saul, Julie Mather Saul, D. Gentry Steele, Diane M. Warren, Lori E. Wright, Christine D. White, Jane E. Buikstra, John P. Gerry, Keith P. Jacobi, David M. Reed, Marie Elaine Danforth, Rebecca Storey and David L. Webster

University of Alabama Press, 2006
eISBN: 978-0-8173-8383-1 | Cloth: 978-0-8173-1528-3 | Paper: 978-0-8173-5376-6
Library of Congress Classification F1435.3.A56B66 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification 972.81016

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Brings together for the first time, a broad spectrum of bioarchaeologists and reveals remarkable data on Maya genetic relationship, demographic, and diseases

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 broad spectrum of bioarchaeologists and reveals remarkable data on Maya genetic relationship, demographic, and diseases.

Contributors
Carl Armstrong / Jane E. Buikstra / Diane Z. Chase / Mark N. Cohen / Della Collins Cook / Marie Elaine Danforth / Andres del Angel / Robert E. Ferrell / John P. Gerry / Karen D. Gettelman / Lorena M. Havill / Keith P. Jacobi / Harold W. Krueger / Nora M. Lopez Olivares / Lourdes Marquez / Virginia K. Massey / D. Andrew Merriwether / Kathleen O'Connor / K. Anne Pyburn / David M. Reed / Frank P. Saul / Julie Mather Saul / D. Gentry Steele / Rebecca Storey / Diane M. Warren / David Webster / Christine D. White / Stephen L. Whittington / Lori E. Wright

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Stephen L. Whittington is Director of the Museum of Anthropology at Wake Forest University.

David M. Reed is a research scientist at the University of Michigan.

REVIEWS

“The breadth and scope of this book demonstrate the vital role that biological data gleaned from skeletal remains play in reconstructing and interpreting the history of the human condition.”
—American Scientist

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Contributors

Preface

Preface to the New Edition

Part 1.
Introduction

1.
Studying Maya Burials

Webster, David

Part 2.
Osteological Studies

2.
Southern Lowland Maya Archaeology and Human Skeletal Remains: Interpretations from Caracol (Belize), Santa Rita Corozal (Belize), and Tayasal (Guatemala)

Chase, Diane Z.

3.
The Preclassic Skeletons from Cuello

Saul, Julie Mather
Saul, Frank P.

4.
Height among Prehispanic Maya of the Yucatán Peninsula: A Reconsideration

Márquez, Lourdes
Ángel, Andrés del

5.
A Maya Skull Pit from the Terminal Classic Period, Colha, Belize

Massey, Virginia K.
Steele, D. Gentry

6.
Archaeology and Osteology of the Tipu Site

Cohen, Mark N.
O'Connor, Kathleen
Danforth, Marie Elaine
Jacobi, Keith P.
Armstrong, Carl

Part 3.
Dental Studies

7.
Late Postclassic Tooth Filing at Chau Hiix and Tipu, Belize

Havill, Lorena M.
Warren, Diane M.
Jacobi, Keith P.
Gettelman, Karen D.
Cook, Della Collins
Pyburn, K. Anne

8.
Cultural Odontology: Dental Alterations from Petén, Guatemala

Olivares, Nora M. López

9.
Individual Frailty, Children of Privilege, and Stress in Late Classic Copán

Storey, Rebecca

10.
Late Classic Maya Health Patterns: Evidence from Enamel Microdefects

Danforth, Marie Elaine

11.
Dental Genetic Structuring of a Colonial Maya Cemetery, Tipu, Belize

Jacobi, Keith P.

Part 4.
Stable Isotope and DNA Studies

12.
Commoner Diet at Copán: Insights from Stable Isotopes and Porotic Hyperostosis

Whittington, Stephen L.
Reed, David M.

13.
Ancient Diet at Lamanai and Pacbitun: Implications for the Ecological Model of Collapse

White, Christine D.

14.
Ecology or Society? Paleodiet and the Collapse of the Pasión Maya Lowlands

Wright, Lori E.

15.
Regional Diversity in Classic Maya Diets

Gerry, John P.
Krueger, Harold W.

16.
Ancient and Contemporary Mitochondrial DNA Variation in the Maya

Merriwether, D. Andrew
Reed, David M.
Ferrell, Robert E.

Part 5.
Conclusion

17.
Studying Maya Bioarchaeology

Buikstra, Jane E.

Appendix. An Indexed Bibliography of Prehistoric and Early Historic Maya Human Osteology: 1839–1994

Danforth, Marie Elaine
Whittington, Stephen L.
Jacobi, Keith P.

References Cited

Index

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