SKELETAL BIOLOGY IN THE GREAT PLAINS

by OWSLEY DOUGLAS W, RICHARD L.JANTZ

Papers from a symposium held in March 1989 at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., present the results of the labors of anthropologists, biochemists, and an ecologist with regard to understanding the Native Americans of the Great Plains the means by which various tribes adapted to the Plains, the subsistence strategies they developed, their demographics and movements, their interactions with one another and eventually with the encroaching white settlers, and their conditions of health and types of diseases as manifest in skeletal remains. Illustrated with photographs, drawings, charts, and tables. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

415 pages, Hardcover

First published May 17, 1994