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Author:

Stojanowski, Christopher M. (Christopher Michael), 1973-

Title:

Mission cemeteries, mission peoples : historical and evolutionary dimensions of intracemetery bioarchaeology in Spanish Florida / Christopher M. Stojanowski ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen.

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xx, 304 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Indians of North America--Anthropometry--Florida.
Indians of North America--Missions--Florida.
Indians of North America--Florida--Population.
Missions, Spanish--Florida.
Cemeteries--Florida.
Human remains (Archaeology)--Florida.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Florida.
Social archaeology--Florida.
Florida--History--Spanish colony, 1565-1763.
Florida--Antiquities.

Other Authors:

Larsen, Clark Spencer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Historical and evolutionary dimensions of bioarchaeological research -- Life and death in Spanish Colonial Florida -- Kin structure and community health at Mission Patale -- Microtemporal variation in health experience at Mission San Mart©Ưn de Timucua -- Cemetery structure after collapse: Mission Santa Catalina de Guale de Santa Mar©Ưa -- The Santa Mar©Ưa Mission and the Santa Catalina Ossuary on Amelia Island -- Mission Santa Mar©Ưa: the cemetery structure of an early Christian church -- Mission cemeteries, mission peoples: a synthesis of intracemetery bioarchaeology in Spanish Colonial Florida.

Summary:

Using biodistance analysis in the context of Spanish Florida, explores how a variety of inferences can be made about past populations and community patterns.

Series:

Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local, regional, and global perspectives

ISBN:

0813044634 (alk. paper)
9780813044637 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)841186929

LCCN:

2013007079

Locations:

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