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Book/Printed Material The best of times, the worst of times health and nutrition in pre-Columbian America

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Title

  • The best of times, the worst of times health and nutrition in pre-Columbian America

Summary

  • "Lack of evidence has been the major obstacle to understanding trends and differences in human welfare over the millennia. This paper explains and applies methods that are obscure to most academics and essentially unknown to the general public. A millennial perspective is best obtained from skeletal remains, which depict not only childhood health conditions but also processes of degeneration that accompany aging and strenuous physical effort. Compiled into an index of health, data from 23 localities as part of a large collaborative project on the Western Hemisphere reveal diverse health conditions for the pre-Columbian population. For reasons not yet understood populations moved over time into less healthy ecological environments. The analysis has implications for understanding environmental determinants of health, the pattern of European conquest, pre-contact population size, investigating human adaptation to climate change, and discovering prime movers of very long-term economic growth"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.

Names

  • Steckel, Richard H. (Richard Hall), 1944-
  • National Bureau of Economic Research

Created / Published

  • Cambridge, MA : National Bureau of Economic Research, c2004.

Headings

  • -  Indians of Central America--Health and hygiene--History
  • -  Indians of Mexico--Health and hygiene--History

Notes

  • -  Title from PDF file as viewed on 1/25/2005.
  • -  Includes bibliographical references.
  • -  Also available in print.
  • -  Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  • -  System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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  • HB1

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  • 2005616239

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  • Unrestricted online access

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Steckel, Richard H, and National Bureau Of Economic Research. The best of times, the worst of times health and nutrition in pre-Columbian America. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2004. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2005616239/.

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Steckel, R. H. & National Bureau Of Economic Research. (2004) The best of times, the worst of times health and nutrition in pre-Columbian America. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2005616239/.

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Steckel, Richard H, and National Bureau Of Economic Research. The best of times, the worst of times health and nutrition in pre-Columbian America. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2004. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2005616239/>.