Nutrition and health at contact in late prehistoric central Gulf Coast Florida

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 375-386

  Hutchinson, Dale L ^a   Norr, Lynette ^b  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact period; Paleopathology; Protohistoric; Stable isotope dietary reconstruction; Tatham Mound

Indexed keywords

STABLE ISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; BIRD; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET; ENAMEL HYPOPLASIA; FISH; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPEROSTOSIS; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; LIFESTYLE; MAIZE; MAMMAL; MASTICATION; METABOLIC DISORDER; NORTH AMERICA; NUTRITION; OSTEOLYSIS; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PLANT; POSTHUMOUS CARE; SHELLFISH; SKELETON; TOOTH;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CARBON ISOTOPES; DENTAL ENAMEL HYPOPLASIA; DIET; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HEALTH STATUS; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PLANTS; SHELLFISH; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 33144484849     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20300     Document Type: Article

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