The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521617444)

This study gathers skeletal evidence on seven basic indicators of health to assess chronic conditions that affected individuals who lived in the Western Hemisphere from 5000 B.C. to the late nineteenth century. Signs of biological stress in childhood and of degeneration in joints and in teeth increased in the several millenia before the arrival of Columbus as populations moved into less healthy ecological environments.

Author: Richard H. Steckel
ISBN-10: 0521617448
ISBN-13: 9780521617444
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/21/2005
Pages: 654
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.97lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.66w x 1.56d