E-raamat: Routledge Handbook of Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology

INTRODUCTION

Vera Tiesler

Part I: FRAMING MESOAMERICAN BIOARCHAEOLOGY

1.1. The Early Days of Mesoamerican Osteology

Andrew K. Scherer

1.2. Management and Conservation of Human Remains From Mesoamerica: Ethical,
Legal, and Technical Recommendations

Maria del Carmen Lerma Gómez and Juan Manuel Argüelles San Milįn

1.3. The Preceramic Skeletal Record of Mexico and Central America

James C. Chatters, Joaquķn Arroyo-Cabrales, and Pilar Luna-Erreguerena

1.4. North of Mesoamerica: Bioarchaeology of the Northwest, North-Central,
and Northeast

Patricia Olga Hernįndez Espinoza and James T. Watson

1.5. Bioarchaeological Studies in the Southern Periphery of Mesoamerica

Shintaro Suzuki

Part II: ACROSS THE HUMAN LANDSCAPES OF PRE-COLUMBIAN MESOAMERICA

2.1. The Bioarchaeology of Preclassic Mesoamerica and the Advent of
Statehood

Mónica Rodrķguez Pérez

2.2. Bioarchaeology of Oaxaca: Major Developments in the Study of 3500 years
of Mortuary Practice in Southern Mexico

Ricardo Higelin Ponce de León and Guy David Hepp

2.3. Maya Bioarchaeology

Andrew K. Scherer and Joshua T. Schnell

2.4. The People of the Southern Central Region of Veracruz

Carlos Serrano Sįnchez and Mireya Montiel Mendoza

2.5. The Bioarchaeology of the Central Highlands of Mesoamerica From the
Early Classic Period Through the Toltec Period

Emily J. Kate and Meggan Bullock

2.6. The Heartland of the Empire: Studying the Aztecs

Ximena Chįvez Balderas, Diana K. Moreiras Reynaga, and Diana Bustos Rķos

Part III: THE BIOARCHAEOLOGY OF CITIES, NEIGHBORHOODS, AND COMMUNITIES

3.1. The Inhabitants of Monte Albįn: A Bioarchaeological Approach

Lourdes Mįrquez Morfķn and Aurora Marcela Pérez-Flórez

3.2. The Multiethnic Population of a Teotihuacan Neighborhood Center:
Bioarchaeological, Archaeometric, and Ancient DNA Analyses

Linda R. Manzanilla-Naim

3.3. The Community of Xcambó, a Classic-Period Maya Port in the Yucatan
Peninsula

Thelma Sierra Sosa, Allan Ortega-Muńoz, and Andrea Cucina

3.4. Bioarchaeology in Copįn, Honduras: Spearheading Maya Bioarchaeology

Shintaro Suzuki and T. Douglas Price

Part IV: THE BODY AS A CULTURAL CONSTRUCT

4.1. The Bioarchaeology of Permanent Body Modifications in Mesoamerica

Vera Tiesler

4.2. Royal Bodies: The Life Histories of Janaab Pakal and The "Red Queen" of
Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico

Erik Velįsquez Garcķa and Vera Tiesler

4.3. Archaeothanatology: A Body-Anchored Approach to Mesoamerican Mortuary
Analyses

Grégory Pereira and Hemmamuthé Goudiaby

4.4. The Bioarchaeology of Ritualized Violence and Posthumous Treatments of
the Human Body in Mesoamerica

Judith Ruiz Gonzįlez and Vera Tiesler

Part V: LIFE STYLE, DIET, AND HEALTH

5.1. Mesoamerican Paleopathology: A Bioarchaeological Approach to Diseases
From the Past

Raśl López Pérez

5.2. Living Conditions, Gender, and Stature

Marie Elaine Danforth, Jaime Thomas, and Peter Mercier

5.3. Geographic Variation in Mesoamerican Paleodiets: A Review of Recent
Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Analyses

Victoria S. R. Izzo, Lori E. Wright, and Alex Canterbury

Part VI: POPULATION AND MOBILITY

6.1. Population Continuity and Mobility Across Mesoamerica

Cathy Willermet, Corey S. Ragsdale, and Heather J.H. Edgar

6.2. Baseline Strontium Isotope Ratios in Mesoamerica

T. Douglas Price and Carolyn Freiwald

6.3. The Paleo-DNA of Ancient Mesoamerican Peoples

Vķctor Acuńa Alonzo and Miguel Angel Contreras Sieck

6.4. Population Structure, Fertility, and Growth

Allan Ortega Muńoz and Patricia Olga Hernįndez-Espinoza

6.5. The Craniometry of Mesoamerican Population Distances

Jorge A. Gómez-Valdés

Part VII: BREAKING NEW GROUNDS IN METHODOLOGY

7.1. 3D Digitization and Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains for Mesoamerican
Bioarchaeology

Gabriel Wrobel

7.2. Methods in Bioarchaeology: Whats New in Profiling an Individual Inside
and Out

Carolyn Freiwald, Jonathan Belanich, and Asta Rand

7.3. Histomorphology of Un-Decalcified Bone in Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology

Corey Maggiano and Isabel Maggiano

7.4. The Phenomenon of Mummification in Ancient Mexico

Josefina Mansilla Lory and Ilįn S. Leboreiro Reyna

Part VIII: THE BIOARCHAEOLOGY OF THE THRESHOLDS OF MODERNITY: LEARNING FROM
THE PAST TO MEET TODAY'S CHALLENGES

8.1. The Bioarchaeology of Colonial New Spain

Julie K. Wesp

8.2. The Serdįn Brothers: Reconstructing the Mortuary Trajectory of the Three
Heroes of the Mexican Revolution

Luisa Mainou Cervantes and Jorge A. Gómez Valdés

8.3. General Trends in Size in Maya Populations of the Yucatan Peninsula From
the Preclassic to the 2010s: A Diachronic Perspective From Human EcologyHugo
Azcorra, Saul Chay Vela, Oana del Castillo Chįvez, and Federico Dickinson
Bannack

8.4. Making Research of Human Reference Collections Available to
Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology

Julio Roberto Chi Keb, Antinea Menéndez Garmendia, Gabriela Sįnchez-Mejorada,
and Jorge Gómez-Valdés

Vera Tiesler is Research Professor at the Mexican Universidad Autónoma de Yucatįn, in Mérida, where she heads the Laboratory of Bioarchaeology. She received her BA in art history from Tulane University, an MA in archaeology at the Mexican Escuela Nacional de Antropologķa e Historia (ENAH), and a PhD in anthropology at the National University of Mexico (UNAM), with five accredited years of medical school (MHH, Hannover, Germany, and IPN, Mexico). Tieslers academic interest lies in illuminating the human condition of the ancient Maya and of past society in general.