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  title info:
    title: No golden age of peace
    sub title: a bioarchaeological investigation of interpersonal violence on the West Gulf Coastal Plain
  name:
    name part: Baker, Joan Elisabeth
    name part: 1970-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
  abstract: In this study, I evaluate two models explaining the origins and causes of interpersonal violence, using bioarchaeological data from burials derived from twenty-eight prehistoric and historic sites for two regions on the West Gulf Coastal Plain: the Central Coastal Plain (CCP) and the Mixed Deciduous Forest/Prairie (MDFP) region. Ecological models of violence predict that resource stress due to cultural or environmental shifts leads to violent interactions due to competition between neighboring populations. The European contact model suggests that violence intensified among Native American populations following the cultural, physiological, and environmental upheavals created through the process of colonialism. For both models, I examine the level of metabolic and hence resource stress by evaluating demographic parameters of the populations in question, as well as using paleopathological data and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. I use skeletal trauma, burial characteristics, and demographic anomalies to assess the degree and scale of interpersonal violence. Demographic analysis indicates that subadults and old adults are under-represented on the CCP. One site located in the MDFP region, Loeve-Fox, shows striking demographic anomalies. Minimum fertility estimates (based on the D₂₀₊/D₅₊ ratio) remained constant over time, except for a slight decrease during the Historic period in the MDFP region. Cribra orbitalia data suggest that the factors responsible for acquired anemia remained constant over time and space. Periostoses show few temporal or regional differences, although more ulnar periostoses are apparent in prehistoric samples. Enamel hypoplasias reveal that children in Archaic populations may have suffered more episodes of stress during childhood. Craniofacial trauma in Historic MDFP populations suggests that hand-to-hand combat may have been used to settle conflicts, while projectile point injuries in Archaic coastal populations and Late Prehistoric inland gr…
  note: by Joan Elisabeth Baker.
  note: "Major Subject: Anthropology".
  note: Vita.
  note: Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilm Inc.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A&M University 2001.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 469-528).
  subject:
    topic: Major anthropology
  identifier: 30-33760 UMI
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/158183
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    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 020827
    record change date: 20220104090830.0
    record identifier: in00001700113