The Backbone of History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521801676)

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: 0521801672
ISBN-13: 9780521801676
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/26/2002
Pages: 654
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.33lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.60d