Written in Bone: Bone Biographer's Casebook

Owsley, Douglas W.

Leanto Press (2009-01-01)

Papers from a symposium held in March 1989 at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., present the results of the labors of anthropologists, biochemists, and an ecologist with regard to understanding the Native Americans of the Great Plains the means by which various tribes adapted to the Plains, the subsistence strategies they developed, their demographics and movements, their interactions with one another and eventually with the encroaching white settlers, and their conditions of health and types of diseases as manifest in skeletal remains. Illustrated with photographs, drawings, charts, and tables. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

SKELETAL BIOLOGY IN THE GREAT PLAINS

History

Richard L. Jantz

Americas

Smithsonian

The Arch Lake human burial site, discovered in 1967 in eastern New Mexico, contains the third-oldest known remains in North America. Since its original excavation and removal to Eastern New Mexico University’s Blackwater Draw Museum, the 10,000 radiocarbon-year-old burial has been known only locally. In February 2000 an interdisciplinary team led by Douglas W. Owsley reexamined the osteology, geology, archaeology, and radiocarbon dating of the burial. In this first volume in Peopling of the Americas Publications—released by Texas A&amp;M University Press for the Center for the Study of the First Americans—Arch Lake Woman presents the results of this recent analysis of the skeleton and site. In addition to color and black-and-white illustrations, Arch Lake Woman includes extensive tables describing the team’s discoveries and comparing their results with those of other ancient burials.

Arch Lake Woman: Physical Anthropology and Geoarchaeology (Peopling of the Americas Publications)

Stanford, Dennis J.

Jodry, Margaret A.

Stafford Jr., Thomas W.

Haynes Jr., C. Vance

Texas A&M University Press

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