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The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere Richard H Steckel
The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere
Richard H Steckel
This book gathers skeletal evidence on seven basic health indicators, to assess chronic conditions that affected the populations of the West over the past several millennia. As measured by childhood indicators of health, Native Americans were among the healthiest and the least healthy peoples in the Western Hemisphere pre-twentieth century.
654 pages, 64 b/w illus. 18 maps 140 tables
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | March 21, 2005 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521617444 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Genre | Ethnic Orientation > Native American |
| Pages | 654 |
| Dimensions | 153 × 233 × 37 mm · 895 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Rose, Jerome C. (University of Arkansas) |
| Editor | Steckel, Richard H. (Ohio State University) |