A Fisk patent metallic burial case from Western Missouri: An interdisciplinary and comprehensive effort to reconstruct the history of an early settler of Lexington, Missouri

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 283-305

  Wescott, Daniel J ^a,b   Brinsko, Kelly ^c   Faerman, Marina ^d   Golda, Stephanie D ^a   Nichols, Jeff ^e   Spigelman, Mark ^d,f   Stewart, Bob ^g   Streeter, Margaret ^h   Tykot, Robert H ⁱ   Zamstein, Ljuba ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c McCrone Research Institute   (United States)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^e Columbia Police Department ^*  (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g Boise State University ^*

^h BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corset; Fisk coffin; Historic archaeology; Paleopathology; Stable isotope; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 82755194584     PISSN: 18669557     EISSN: 18669565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-010-0045-9     Document Type: Article

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