'An External Agency of Considerable Importance': The Stresses of Agriculture in the Foraging-to-Farming Transition in Eastern North America

Human Bioarchaeology of the Transition to Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 293-315

  Larsen, Clark Spencer ^a   Ruff, Christopher ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity and workload study osteoarthritis and cross sectional geometry, insight into lifestyle in past societies; Eastern North America, and osteoarthritis behavioural markers of lifestyle and activity; Eastern North America, prehistory by small scale societies gathering wild plants, hunting and fishing; Eastern North America, stresses of agriculture in foraging to farming transition, 'An External Agency of Considerable Importance'; Lower Illinois River Valley intensive archaeological investigation of early 1960s; Osteoarthritis, multifactorial disorder and diarthrodial joint degeneration; Past behaviour, reconstruction and interpretation human skeletal remains, bone adapted to mechanical environment around it; Prehistoric and mission era bioarchaeology of the Georgia Bight

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887560935     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470670170.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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