Reconstructing ancient Maya diet /
Reconstructing ancient Maya diet /
edited by Christine D. White.
- Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, �1999.
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 260 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Ancient Maya Diet / Botanical and Faunal Analyses -- Plant Resources of the Ancient Maya: The Paleoethnobotanical Evidence / Classification of Useful Plants by the Northern Peten Maya (Itzaj) / Continuity and Variability in Postclassic and Colonial Animal Use at Lamanai and Tipu, Belize / Social and Ecological Aspects of Preclassic Maya Meat Consumption at Colha, Belize / Paleopathology -- Coming Up Short: Stature and Nutrition among the Ancient Maya of the Southern Lowlands / Land Use, Diet, and Their Effects on the Biology of the Prehistoric Maya of Northern Ambergris Cay, Belize / Dietary Change of the Lowland Maya Site of Kichpanha, Belize / Caries and Antemortem Tooth Loss at Copan: Implications for Commoner Diet / Late Classic Nutrition and Skeletal Indicators at Copan, Honduras / Bone Chemistry -- Cuisine from Hun-Nal-Ye / The Elements of Maya Diets: Alkaline Earth Baselines and Paleodietary Reconstruction in the Pasion Region / Dietary Carbonate Analysis of Bone and Enamel for Two Sites in Belize / Christine D. White -- David L. Lentz -- Scott Atran -- Kitty F. Emery -- Leslie C. Shaw -- Marie Elaine Danforth -- David M. Glassman, James F. Garber -- Ann L. Magennis -- Stephen L. Whittington -- Rebecca Storey -- David Millard Reed -- Lori E. Wright -- Shannon Coyston, Christine D. White, Henry P. Schwarcz.
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. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
English.
0585146799 9780585146799 9780874806021 087480602X
9780874806021
000020075825 AU
Mayas--Food.
Mayas--Nutrition.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Food Science.
COOKING--General.
Antiquities.
Mayas--Food.
Latin America.
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.
Central America--Antiquities.
Mexico--Antiquities.
Central America.
Mexico.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
F1435.3.F7 / R43 1999eb
641.3/008997/4152
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Ancient Maya Diet / Botanical and Faunal Analyses -- Plant Resources of the Ancient Maya: The Paleoethnobotanical Evidence / Classification of Useful Plants by the Northern Peten Maya (Itzaj) / Continuity and Variability in Postclassic and Colonial Animal Use at Lamanai and Tipu, Belize / Social and Ecological Aspects of Preclassic Maya Meat Consumption at Colha, Belize / Paleopathology -- Coming Up Short: Stature and Nutrition among the Ancient Maya of the Southern Lowlands / Land Use, Diet, and Their Effects on the Biology of the Prehistoric Maya of Northern Ambergris Cay, Belize / Dietary Change of the Lowland Maya Site of Kichpanha, Belize / Caries and Antemortem Tooth Loss at Copan: Implications for Commoner Diet / Late Classic Nutrition and Skeletal Indicators at Copan, Honduras / Bone Chemistry -- Cuisine from Hun-Nal-Ye / The Elements of Maya Diets: Alkaline Earth Baselines and Paleodietary Reconstruction in the Pasion Region / Dietary Carbonate Analysis of Bone and Enamel for Two Sites in Belize / Christine D. White -- David L. Lentz -- Scott Atran -- Kitty F. Emery -- Leslie C. Shaw -- Marie Elaine Danforth -- David M. Glassman, James F. Garber -- Ann L. Magennis -- Stephen L. Whittington -- Rebecca Storey -- David Millard Reed -- Lori E. Wright -- Shannon Coyston, Christine D. White, Henry P. Schwarcz.
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. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
English.
0585146799 9780585146799 9780874806021 087480602X
9780874806021
000020075825 AU
Mayas--Food.
Mayas--Nutrition.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Food Science.
COOKING--General.
Antiquities.
Mayas--Food.
Latin America.
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.
Central America--Antiquities.
Mexico--Antiquities.
Central America.
Mexico.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
F1435.3.F7 / R43 1999eb
641.3/008997/4152