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Life and death in the ancient city of Teotihuacan : a modern paleodemographic synthesis / Rebecca Storey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, �1992.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 307 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 058514110X
  • 9780585141107
  • 9780817384357
  • 0817384359
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Life and death in the ancient city of Teotihuacan.DDC classification:
  • 972/.52 20
LOC classification:
  • F1219.1.T27 S76 1992eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Tables and Figures; Preface; 1. Anthropology and Paleodemography:The Problem and Its Theoretical Foundations; 2. Teotihuacan and the Demography ofPreindustrial Cities; 3. The Tlajinga 33 Apartment Compound; 4. The Tlajinga 33 Skeletons; 5. General Demographic Characteristics of the Tlajinga 33 Population; 6. Paleodemographic Analysis of theTlajinga 33 Skeletons; 7. Paleopathology, Health, and Mortalityat Tlajinga 33; 8. Mortality Models and the DemographicSignificance of Tlajinga 33; Appendix: Metric Measurements Used in the Discriminant-Function Sexing; References Cited; Index
Summary: Cities arose independently in both the Old World and in the pre-Columbian New World. Lacking written records, many of these New World cities can be studied only through archaeology, including the earliest pre-Columbian city, Teotihuacan, Mexico, one of the largest cities of its time (150 B.C. to A.D. 750). Thus, an important question is how similar New World cities are to their Old World counterparts. Before recent times, the dense populations of cities made them unhealthy places because of poor sanitation and inadequate food supplies. Storey's research shows clearly.
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Tables and Figures; Preface; 1. Anthropology and Paleodemography:The Problem and Its Theoretical Foundations; 2. Teotihuacan and the Demography ofPreindustrial Cities; 3. The Tlajinga 33 Apartment Compound; 4. The Tlajinga 33 Skeletons; 5. General Demographic Characteristics of the Tlajinga 33 Population; 6. Paleodemographic Analysis of theTlajinga 33 Skeletons; 7. Paleopathology, Health, and Mortalityat Tlajinga 33; 8. Mortality Models and the DemographicSignificance of Tlajinga 33; Appendix: Metric Measurements Used in the Discriminant-Function Sexing; References Cited; Index

Cities arose independently in both the Old World and in the pre-Columbian New World. Lacking written records, many of these New World cities can be studied only through archaeology, including the earliest pre-Columbian city, Teotihuacan, Mexico, one of the largest cities of its time (150 B.C. to A.D. 750). Thus, an important question is how similar New World cities are to their Old World counterparts. Before recent times, the dense populations of cities made them unhealthy places because of poor sanitation and inadequate food supplies. Storey's research shows clearly.

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