Mission Cemeteries, Mission Peoples : Historical and Evolutionary Dimensions of Intracemetery Bioarchaeology in Spanish Florida /

Stojanowski, Christopher M. 1973-

Mission Cemeteries, Mission Peoples : Historical and Evolutionary Dimensions of Intracemetery Bioarchaeology in Spanish Florida / Christopher M. Stojanowski ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xx, 304 pages) - - Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local, regional, and global perspectives .

Includes bibliographies and index.

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 Martín de Timucua -- Cemetery structure after collapse: Mission Santa Catalina de Guale de Santa María -- The Santa María Mission and the Santa Catalina Ossuary on Amelia Island -- Mission Santa María: the cemetery structure of an early Christian church -- Mission cemeteries, mission peoples: a synthesis of intracemetery bioarchaeology in Spanish Colonial Florida.

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



9780813048512 9780813046167




Indians of North America--Anthropometry--Florida.
Indians of North America--Missions--Florida.
Indians of North America--Population.--Florida
Missions, Spanish--Florida.
Cemeteries--Florida.
Human remains (Archaeology)--Florida.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Floirda.
Social archaeology--Florida.
Indians, North American--history
Cemeteries--history
Diet--history
Health Status
Paleopathology--methods
Archaeology--methods


Electronic Books.

E78 / .M577 2013