Abstract
This work represents something of an introduction to macrobioarchaeology, where the fields of paleonutrition, paleopathology, and paleodemography intersect and overlap. It features the skills of some fifty noted anthropologists, anatomists, biologists, economists, geographers, and historians in interpreting findings from the skeletal remains of 12,520 individuals who died in the Western Hemisphere between 5,000 BC and the late nineteenth century. Around 80% of the remains were of Native Americans (66% of these were North Americans, 12% were Middle Americans, and 22% were South Americans), with the other 20% split evenly between those of European and those of African descent. Slightly [End Page 206] more than half of the Native Americans died in pre-Columbian times, and a significant number of them (14%) were born and died more than two thousand years ago.
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