Bioarchaeology of Native Americans in the Spanish Borderlands (Ripley P. Bullen Series)

“An important addition to the growing literature on American Indian-Eropean contact in North America, offering fresh perspectives on the variability of native societies’ responses to contact.” –from the Foreword, by Jerald T. Milanich, Florida Museum of Natural History“The only recent volume that explicitly concentrates on biocultural contact effects based on bioarchaeology, paleopathology, and ethnohistory...and [the only one] to stress so strongly that more than disease effects were involved in the depopulation of Native Americans.” –Rebecca Storey, University of HoustonMost researchers of the European settlement of North America assume that Native American populations were decimated solely and uniformly by introduced disease. These authors challenge that assumption, demonstrating that Native American societies responded to European encroachment in complex and varied ways. They draw on data from population case studies in what is now the southern United States to establish convincingly that archaeological and bioanthropological research are powerful tools for cultural interpretation. Assessing The Impact Of European Contact On Aboriginal Populations / Brenda J. Baker And Lisa Kealhofer -- Bioarchaeological Investigations: Protohistoric Aborigines In West-central Alabama : Probable Correlations To Early European Contact / M. Cassandra Hill -- Sociopolitical Devolution In Northeast Mississippi And The Timing Of The De Soto Entrada / Jay K. Johnson And Geoffrey R. Lehmann -- Evidence For Demographic Collapse In California / Lisa Kealhofer -- Skeletal Biology And Paleopidemiology: Implications Of Changing Biomechanical And Nutritional Environments For Activity And Lifeway In The Eastern Spanish Borderlands / Clark Spencer Larsen, Christopher B. Ruff, And Mark C. Griffin -- Effect Of European Contact On The Health Of Indigenous Populations In Texas / Elizabeth Miller -- Paleopidemiology Of Eastern And Western Pueblo Communities In Protohistoric And Early Historic New Mexico / Ann L. W. Stodder -- Theoretical Perspectives And Prospects: Historic Depopulation In The American Southwest : Issues Of Interpretation And Context-embedded Analyses / Ann M. Palkovich -- Prospects And Problems In Contact-era Research / George R. Milner --counterpoint To Collapse : Depopulation And Adaptation / Lisa Kealhofer And Brenda J. Baker. Edited By Brenda J. Baker And Lisa Kealhofer. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. An important addition to the growing literature on American Indian-Eropean contact in North America, offering fresh perspectives on the variability of native societies responses to contact. from the Foreword, by Jerald T. Milanich, Florida Museum of Natural History The only recent volume that explicitly concentrates on biocultural contact effects based on bioarchaeology, paleopathology, and ethnohistoryand [the only one] to stress so strongly that more than disease effects were involved in the depopulation of Native Americans. Rebecca Storey, University of Houston Most researchers of the European settlement of North America assume that Native American populations were decimated solely and uniformly by introduced disease. These authors challenge that assumption, demonstrating that Native American societies responded to European encroachment in complex and varied ways. They draw on data from population case studies in what is now the southern United States to establish convincingly that archaeological and bioanthropological research are powerful tools for cultural interpretation. Most researchers of the European settlement of North America assume that Native American populations were decimated solely and uniformly by introduced disease. Baker and Kealhofer challenge that assumption, demonstrating that Native American societies responded to European encroachment in complex and varied ways. They draw on data from population case studies in what is now the southern United States to establish convincingly that archaeological and bioanthropological research are powerful tools for cultural interpretation. Most researchers of the European settlement of North America assume that the local populations were decimated solely by introduced disease. Challenging that assumption, this book demonstrates that Native American societies responded to European encroachment in complex and varied ways.