Ancient health : skeletal indicators of agricultural and economic intensification / edited by Mark Nathan Cohen and Gillian M.M. Crane-Kramer.

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2007], ©2007.

xxiv, 432 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Revisions of papers presented at a conference held in April 2004 in Clearwater Beach, Fla.

Maize and Mississippians in the American Midwest : twenty years later / Della Collins Cook -- Health and lifestyle in Georgia and Florida : agricultural origins and intensification in regional perspective / Clark Spencer Larsen ... [et al.] -- A brief continental view from Windover / Glen H. Doran -- Outer coast foragers and inner coast farmers in late prehistoric North Carolina / Dale L. Hutchinson, Lynette Norr, and Mark F. Teaford -- Health and the transition to horticulture in the south-central United States / Marie Elaine Danforth ... [et al.] -- From early village to regional center in Mesoamerica : an investigation of lifestyles and health / Lourdes Márquez Morfín and Rebecca Storey -- Skeletal biology of the central Peruvian coast : consequences of changing population density and progressive dependence on maize agriculture / Ekaterina A. Pechenkina ... [et al.] -- The adoption of agriculture among northern Chile populations in the Azapa Valley, 9000-1000 BP / Marta P. Alfonso, Vivien G. Standen, and M. Victoria Castro -- Population plasticity in southern Scandinavia : from oysters and fish to gruel and meat / Pia Bennike and Verner Alexandersen -- The impact of economic intensification and social complexity on human health in Britain from 6000 BP (Neolithic) and the introduction of farming to the mid-nineteenth century AD / Charlotte Roberts and Margaret Cox -- What can pathology say about the Mesolithic and Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic communities? : the Portuguese case / Eugénia Cunha ... [et al.] -- The political ecology of health in Bahrain / Judith Littleton -- Skeletal and dental health and subsistence change in the United Arab Emirates / Soren Blau -- Ancestors and inheritors : a bioanthropological perspective on the transition to agropastoralism in the southern Levant / Patricia Smith and Liora Kolska Horwitz -- The health of foragers : people of the later Stone Age, southern Africa / Susan Pfeiffer -- Climate, subsistence, and health in prehistoric India : the biological impact of a short-term subsistence shift / John R. Lukacs -- Iron-deficiency anemia in early Mongolian nomads / Naran Bazarsad -- Diet and health in the Neolithic of the Wei and middle Yellow River basins, northern China / Ekaterina A. Pechenkina, Robert A. Benfer Jr., and Xiaolin Ma -- Prehistoric dietary transitions in tropical Southeast Asia : stable isotope and dental caries evidence from two sites in Malaysia / John Krigbaum -- Population health from the Bronze to the Iron Age in the Mun River Valley, northeastern Thailand / Kate Domett and Nancy Tayles -- Biological consequences of sedentism : agricultural intensification in northeastern Thailand / Michele Toomay Douglas and Michael Pietrusewsky -- Editors' summation / Mark Nathan Cohen and Gillian M.M. Crane-Kramer.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-410) and index.