The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere - Hardcover

 
9780521801676: The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521801672 ISBN 13: 9780521801676
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

This study gathers skeletal evidence on seven basic indicators of health to assess chronic conditions that affected individuals who lived in the Western Hemisphere from 5000 B.C. to the late nineteenth century. Signs of biological stress in childhood and of degeneration in joints and in teeth increased in the several millenia before the arrival of Columbus as populations moved into less healthy ecological environments.

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About the Authors

Richard H. Steckel is Professor of Economics and Anthropology at Ohio State University. His most recent publications include Health and Welfare During Industrialization, which he coedited with Roderick Floud, and A Population History of the United States, which he co-edited with Michael Haines.

Jerome C. Rose is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas. He has conducted bioarcheological excavations in Illinois, Arkansas, Texas, Egypt, and Jordan.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521801672
ISBN 13 
9780521801676
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
654
Editor
Steckel Richard H., Rose Jerome C.

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