About this title: This landmark book brings together diverse viewpoints of leading international anthropologists and demographers on the patterns of populations and disease in the Americas both before and after 1492. Recent demographic literature has depicted America before European contact as a disease-free paradise, but the literature in physical anthropology and paleopathology regularly documents a variety of disease conditions in ancient America. At the same time, demographic reconstructions from ancient samples seem at odds with, standard interpretations from ethnohistory and demography. Clarifying what ...
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Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Tight Binding; no interior marks; Title written along bottom edge. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 352 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: HC
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Pr., Washington, D.C.
Date Published: (1992) 1st ptg
ISBN-13:9781560981633ISBN:1560981636
Description: B&W illustrations. very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover) 294pp. ISBN 1560981636 This landmark book brings together diverse viewpoints of leading international anthropologists and demographers on the patterns of populations and disease in the Americas both before and after 1492. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Washington and London. Smithsonian Institution Press. 1992.
Date Published: 1992
Description: Dust Jacket Included. 29cm, first edition, x, 294p., index, original purple cloth with gilt spine titles, illustrated jacket, a fine copy in fine jacket (s14) read more
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