Mission Cemeteries, Mission Peoples: Historical And Evolutionary Dimensions Of Intracemetary Bioarchaeology In Spanish Florida
by Christopher M. Stojanowski /
2013 / English / PDF
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Mission Cemeteries, Mission Peoples offers clear, accessible
explanations of complex methods for observing evolutionary effects
in populations. Christopher Stojanowski's intimate knowledge of the
historical, archaeological, and skeletal data illuminates the
existing narrative of diet, disease, and demography in Spanish
Florida and demonstrates how the intracemetery analyses he employs
can provide likely explanations for issues where the historical
information is either silent or ambiguous. Stojanowski forgoes the
traditional broad analysis of Native American populations and
instead looks at the physical person who lived in the historic
Southeast. What did that person eat? Did he suffer from chronic
diseases? With whom did she go to a Spanish church? Where was she
buried in death? The answers to these questions allow us to infer
much about the lives of mission peoples.
Mission Cemeteries, Mission Peoples offers clear, accessible
explanations of complex methods for observing evolutionary effects
in populations. Christopher Stojanowski's intimate knowledge of the
historical, archaeological, and skeletal data illuminates the
existing narrative of diet, disease, and demography in Spanish
Florida and demonstrates how the intracemetery analyses he employs
can provide likely explanations for issues where the historical
information is either silent or ambiguous. Stojanowski forgoes the
traditional broad analysis of Native American populations and
instead looks at the physical person who lived in the historic
Southeast. What did that person eat? Did he suffer from chronic
diseases? With whom did she go to a Spanish church? Where was she
buried in death? The answers to these questions allow us to infer
much about the lives of mission peoples.
