Reconstructing ancient Maya diet / edited by Christine D. White.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Ancient Maya Diet / Christine D. White -- Botanical and Faunal Analyses -- Plant Resources of the Ancient Maya: The Paleoethnobotanical Evidence / David L. Lentz -- Classification of Useful Plants by the Northern Peten Maya (Itzaj) / Scott Atran -- Continuity and Variability in 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 -- Paleopathology -- 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, James F. Garber -- Dietary Change of the Lowland Maya Site of Kichpanha, Belize / Ann L. Magennis -- Caries and Antemortem Tooth Loss at Copan: Implications for Commoner Diet / Stephen L. Whittington -- Late Classic Nutrition and Skeletal Indicators at Copan, Honduras / Rebecca Storey -- Bone Chemistry -- Cuisine from Hun-Nal-Ye / David Millard Reed -- The Elements of Maya Diets: Alkaline Earth Baselines and Paleodietary Reconstruction in the Pasion Region / Lori E. Wright -- Dietary Carbonate Analysis of Bone and Enamel for Two Sites in Belize / Shannon Coyston, Christine D. White, Henry P. Schwarcz.

Print version record.

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.

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