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)
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- 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.
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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