Bioarchaeological Studies of Life in the Age of Agriculture: A View from the Southeast

299 Pages·2000·9.685 MB·English

by  Patricia M. Lambert, Keith P. Jacobi, David C. Weaver, Debra L. Gold, Clark Spencer Larsen, Dale L. Hutchinson, Mary Lucas Powell, Mark R. Schurr, Lisa Sattenspiel, Marianne Reeves, Matthew A. Williamson, Leslie Sering, Margaret J. Schoeninger, Elizabeth I. Monahan, Lynette Norr, Patricia S. Bridges

Bioarchaeological Studies of Life
in the Age of Agriculture

Bioarchaeological Studies
of Life in the Age
of Agriculture
A View from the Southeast
Edited by
Patricia M. Lambert
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS
Tuscaloosa and London
Copyright © 2000
The University of Alabama Press
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bioarchaeological studies of life in the age of agriculture :
a view from the Southeast / edited by Patricia M. Lambert.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8173-1007-X (alk. paper)
1.Indians of North America—Southern States— Antiquities
Congresses. 2. Indians of North America—Health and hygiene—
Southern States Congresses. 3. Indians of North America—Anthro-
pometry—Southern States Congresses. 4. Mississippian culture
Congresses. 5. Southern States—Antiquities Congresses.
I. Lambert, Patricia M., 1958–
E78.S65B55 2000
614.4′275—dc21
99-6777
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data available
In memory of Patricia S. Bridges

Contents
Acknowledgments xv
1. Introduction 1
Patricia M. Lambert
2. Ancient Diseases, Modern Perspectives: Treponematosis
and Tuberculosis in the Age of Agriculture 6
Mary Lucas Powell
3. Warfare-Related Trauma in the Late Prehistory of Alabama 35
Patricia S. Bridges
Keith P. Jacobi
Mary Lucas Powell
4. Transitions at Moundville: A Question of Collapse 63
Margaret J. Schoeninger
Lisa Sattenspiel
Mark R. Schurr
5. Dental Health at Early Historic Fusihatchee Town:
Biocultural Implications of Contact in Alabama 78
Marianne Reeves
6. Agricultural Melodies and Alternative Harmonies in
Florida and Georgia 96
Dale L. Hutchinson
Clark Spencer Larsen
Lynette Norr
Margaret J. Schoeninger
7. Inferring Iron-De¤ciency Anemia from Human
Skeletal Remains: The Case of the Georgia Bight 116
Clark Spencer Larsen
Leslie E. Sering
8. A Comparison of Degenerative Joint Disease between
Upland and Coastal Prehistoric Agriculturalists from Georgia 134
Matthew A. Williamson
viii Contents
9. Dental Health and Late Woodland Subsistence in
Coastal North Carolina 148
Elizabeth Monahan Driscoll
David S. Weaver
10. Life on the Periphery: Health in Farming Communities
of Interior North Carolina and Virginia 168
Patricia M. Lambert
11. “Utmost Confusion” Reconsidered: Bioarchaeology and
Secondary Burial in Late Prehistoric Interior Virginia 195
Debra L. Gold
References 219
Contributors 273
Index 277
Figures and Tables
FIGURES
1-1 Locations of Archaeological Sites Discussed in
Text. For details on site locations, see
individual chapters. 3
2-1 “Saber-Shin” Tibiae of Young Adult Male. Burial
1364, Moundville, Alabama 11
2-2 Remodeled Caries Sicca Lesions on Posterior
Cranial Vault of an Adult Female. AMNH 432,
Upper Nodena, Arkansas 11
2-3 Treponemal Lesions of Right Nasal Margin and
Right Maxilla of a Young Adult Female. NMNH
385540, Irene Mound, Georgia 12
2-4 Two Vertebrae of a Young Adult Female Showing
Tuberculous Lesions. NMNH 385562, Irene
Mound, Georgia 26
2-5 Left Ilium of Adult Female with Tuberculous
Destruction of Sacroiliac Auricular
Surface. NMNH 385411, Irene Mound, Georgia 27
2-6 Vertebral Column of a Young Adult Male with
Pott’s Disease. Burial 2150, Moundville, Alabama 28
3-1 Perimortem Cutmarks on Individual from Koger’s Island
(1Lu92, Burial 35) 52
3-2 Individual from the Perry Site (1Lu25, Burial 5)
Who Survived for a Time after Scalping 53
4-1 Percent of Burials Accompanied by Speci¤c
Categories of Grave Goods in Four Periods of
Occupation at Moundville 70
4-2 Morphological Diversity of Maize and Fauna
Recovered from Three Periods of Occupation
at Moundville 73