Skeletons in Our Closet - Revealing Our Past Through Bioarcharcheology

Preface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction Tales from the Dead: What Bones Tell Us about Our Past, and Why We Should Know 3(10) The Lives and Lifestyles of Ancient Hunter Gatherers: ``Poor, nasty, brutish and short'' in the American Great Basin? 13(22) Skeletons from Stillwater: Good Times and Bad Times 35(30) From Foraging to Farming: A Regional Perspective 65(31) Going Global: Bioarchaeology of the Foraging-to-Farming Transition 96(25) Europeans Arrive: Circumstances and Settings for Native Population Collapse in the Americas 121(24) Bioarchaeology of Population Decline and Extinction in Spanish Florida 145(34) Sot-Weed to Sangamo: Life and Death in Frontier North America 179(24) On to Sangamo Country: Colonizing the Midwest 203(25) Life's Transitions: The Bioarchaeological Past 228(9) Index 237