AK Scherer - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2017 - Springer
This review explores the past two decades of research on ancient Maya skeletons. The focus is on how this work has contributed to our understanding of health, diet, social change …
A Cucina, TD Price, E Magaña Peralta… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives This article aims to infer population dynamics in the Noh Bec region (Yucatán Peninsula, México) during the Maya Classic period (AD 350–800), based on a combined …
Different hypotheses exist to explain population development and replacement on the East Coast of the Yucatan Peninsula after the so-called Maya collapse, a period of dynamic …
A Cucina - … and bioarchaeology of population movement among …, 2015 - Springer
This chapter uses dental morphology to reconstruct population dynamics, biodistance and populations' inner variability in 18 human dental collections from Classic and Postclassic …
Understanding how epigenetic factors impact dental phenotypes can help refine the use of teeth for elucidating biological relationships among human populations. We explored …
We identified mitochondrial DNA haplogroups A, B, C, and D in 75 present-day Maya individuals, 24 Maya individuals of the colonial period, and 1 pre-Columbian Maya …
CS Ragsdale - Ancient Mesoamerica, 2017 - cambridge.org
The majority of our knowledge about population structure in Mexico during the Postclassic period (ad 900–1520) is based on archaeological data. During this time, populations were in …
Se estudian las características morfológicas dentales de una muestra correspondiente a 73 restos de individuos adultos de ambos sexos, que van del periodo Clásico Temprano al …
V Tiesler, A Cucina - Archaeological Human Remains: Global …, 2014 - Springer
This chapter explores the core topic of this volume—ie global research perspectives in the study of archaeologically retrieved human remains—from the Peninsula of Yucatan. Being …