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Title:

Reconstructing ancient Maya diet / edited by Christine D. White.

Publisher:

University of Utah Press,

Copyright Date:

c1999

Description:

xxvii, 260 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Mayas--Food.
Mayas--Nutrition.
Central America--Antiquities.
Mexico--Antiquities

Other Authors:

White, Christine D., 1951-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Plant resources of the ancient Maya: the paleoethnobotanical evidence / David L. Lentz -- Classification of useful plants by the Northern Petén Maya (Itzaj )/ Scott Atran -- Continuity and variability in the postclassic and colonial animal use at Lamanai and Tipu, Belize / Kitty F. Emery -- Social and ecological aspects of preclassic Maya meat consumption at Colha, Belize / Leslie C. Shaw -- coming up short: stature and nutrition among the ancient Maya of the southern lowlands / Marie Elaine Danforth -- Land use, diet, and their effects on the biology of the prehistoric Maya of northern Ambergris Cay, Belize / David M. Glassman and James F. Garber -- Dietary change of the lowland Maya site of Kichpanha, Belize / Ann L. Magennis -- Caries and antemortem tooth loss at Copán: implications for commoner diet / Stephen L. Whittington -- Late classic nutrition and skeletal indicators at Copán, Honduras / Rebecca Storey -- Cuisine from Hun-Nal-Ye / David Millard Reed -- The elements of Maya diets: alkaline earth baselines and paleodietary reconstruction in the Pasión region / Lori E. Wright -- Dietary carbonate analysis of bone and enamel for two sites in Belize / Shannon Coyston, Christine D. White, and Henry P. Schwarcz.

ISBN:

9780874806021 (alk. paper)
087480602X (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)41315339

LCCN:

99015542

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)