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The collapse of classic Maya civilization at the end of the eighth century A.D. is still an enigma, but the story behind it is likely more than a clash of warring city-states. New research indicates that ecological degradation and nutritional deficiency may be as important to our understanding of Maya cultural processes as deciphering the rise and fall of kings.
Reconstructing Ancient Maya Diet integrates recent data from bone-chemistry research, paleopathology, paleobotany, zooarchaeology, and ethnobotany to show what the ancient Maya actually ate at various periods (as opposed to archaeological suppositions) and how it affected the quality of their lives. It is now evident that to feed a burgeoning population the Maya relied on increasingly intensive forms of agriculture.
Exploring the relationship between these practices, ecological degradation, and social collapse, this book uses dietary data to investigate the rise of agricultural systems and class structure; the characterization of social relationships along lines of gender and age (i.e., who ate what); and the later effects of the Spanish conquest on diet and extant modes of agriculture.
Maya subsistence has been investigated intensively for the past two decades, but this is the first volume that unites work across the spectrum of Maya bioarchaeology.
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About the Author
Christine White is associate professor of anthropology, University of Western Ontario.
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"...a significant contribution to an important aspect of ancient Maya studies." -- -Frank Saul, Senior Consultant, Forensic Anthropology, Lucas County Coroner, Toledo
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- PublisherUniversity of Utah Press
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 087480602X
- ISBN 13 9780874806021
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages260
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Hardcover. Dark brown boards with bronze illustration and lettering; xxvii, 260 pp, bw illustrations. Annotation In light of recently discovered population centers of pre-colonial Maya that could not have been sustained by the slash-and-burn agriculture which most anthropologists believe was the dominant method of food production for the culture, the editors of this volume view the analysis of the Maya diet as particularly important for understanding the pre-Columbian population. They present 12 papers that discuss evidence from the fields of faunal and botanical analysis, paleopathology, and bone chemistry. -publisher's description. Contents: Plant resources of the ancient Maya: the paleoethnobotanical evidence / David L. Lentz -- Classification of useful plants by the Northern Petén Maya (Itzaj)/ Scott Atran -- Continuity and variability in the 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 -- 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 and James F. Garber -- Dietary change of the lowland Maya site of Kichpanha, Belize / Ann L. Magennis -- Caries and antemortem tooth loss at Copán: implications for commoner diet / Stephen L. Whittington -- Late classic nutrition and skeletal indicators at Copán, Honduras / Rebecca Storey -- Cuisine from Hun-Nal-Ye / David Millard Reed -- The elements of Maya diets: alkaline earth baselines and paleodietary reconstruction in the Pasión region / Lori E. Wright -- Dietary carbonate analysis of bone and enamel for two sites in Belize / Shannon Coyston, Christine D. White, and Henry P. Schwarcz. VG (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and clear.). Seller Inventory # 184674
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