Mesoamerican Osteobiographies

List of Figures

List of Tables

Chapter 1. Osteobiographies in Mesoamerica: Their History and Scope
Gabriel D. Wrobel and Andrea Cucina

Section 1. Ordinary Individuals

Chapter 2. The Man of Macabilero: An Osteobiography of Perseverance
Andrew K. Scherer, Ricardo Rodas, Joshua T. Schnell, Mónica Urquizú, and Omar Alcover Firpi

Chapter 3. Life into Old Age: A Female Forager-Horticulturalist from the Middle Holocene in Belize
Emily Moes, Lexi O’Donnell, Ethan C. Hill, Mark Robinson, Douglas J. Kennett, and Keith Prufer

Chapter 4. Life and Death of a Middle Preclassic Individual from Aguada Fénix, Tabasco, Mexico
Shintaro Suzuki, Fernando Gutiérrez Méndez, María Belén Méndez Bauer, Daniela Triadan, and Takeshi Inomata

Chapter 5. Colonial Lifeways and Childhood Revealed through Osteobiographic Analysis at Cahal Pech, Belize
Kirsten Green Mink, Claire E. Ebert, Jaime J. Awe, Carolyn Freiwald, and Jelmer W. Eerkens

Chapter 6. Daily Life at the Border: Utilizing Osteobiography to Create Imagined Narratives of Two Colonists from the Villa de Salamanca de Bacalar
Allan Ortega-Muñoz

Chapter 7. Life on the Colonial Frontier: A Maya Osteobiography from Tipu, Belize
Amy L. Hair, Peter Mercier, Mariah D. Biggs, and Marie Elaine Danforth

Section 2. Social Roles in Life

Chapter 8. Osteobiography of a Postclassic Maya Shaman/Priest: The “Guardian of Maay” from San Miguelito, Quintana Roo
Andrea Cucina, Sandra Elizalde-Rodarte, and Allan Ortega-Muñoz

Chapter 9. A Teotihuacano in Monte Alban: Life History in a Domestic Group from an Osteobiographic Approach
Lourdes Márquez Morfín, Samantha Sharon Negrete-Gutiérrez, and Aurora Marcela Pérez-Flórez

Chapter 10. Walking in the Mayab Land: The Life History of a Merchant from Caucel, Yucatan
Mónica Rodríguez Pérez, Ana María Padilla Dorantes, and Andrea Cucina

Chapter 11. A Young Man, an Old Ritual, and Maya Ethnoscience
Della Collins Cook

Section 3. Distinguished in Death: Postmortem Social Roles

Chapter 12. Making a Place for Ancestors at Actuncan, Belize: An Osteobiography of a Maya Burial Ground
Carolyn Freiwald, Destiny Micklin, Kara A. Fulton, David W. Mixter, and Lisa J. LeCount

Chapter 13. Death and Remembrance in Central Belize: An Osteobiography
Gabriel D. Wrobel, Eleanor Harrison-Buck, Carolyn Freiwald, Jack A. Biggs, Morgan McKenna, and Satoru Murata

Chapter 14. A Pilgrimage of Bones: Using Osteobiography to Understand Rockshelter Use along a Maya Ritual Circuit in Central Belize
Samantha H. Blatt, Amy R. Michael, and Jack A. Biggs

Chapter 15. Recycling Souls and Age-Fluid Ancestors: Osteobiographic Evidence from the Pre-Columbian Maya of Northwestern Belize
Pamela L. Geller

Chapter 16. Venerated Youth: Age at Death and Ancestral Status at the Chan Site, Belize
Anna C. Novotny

Chapter 17. Human Bones Converted into Artifacts at Teotihuacan
Abigail Meza-Peñaloza, Federico Zertuche, and Andrea Cucina

Section 4. Impairment and Care

Chapter 18. Blighted Childhood in Colonial La Antigua Guatemala
Paige Violet Wojcik Woolfolk, Rosalba Yasmin Cifuentes Argüello, and Della Collins Cook

Chapter 19. Living and Dying in the Purépecha Heartland: A Case of Possible Hypertrophic Osteoarthropathy from Angamuco, Michoacán, Mexico
Alex Garcia-Putnam, D. Eli Mrak, Melissa S. Murphy, and Christopher T. Fisher

Section 5. Forensic Biohistory

Chapter 20. Tying the Knot between the Maya Ruler Janaab’ Pakal and Lady Tz’akab’ Ajaw: A Family Osteobiography from Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico
Vera Tiesler and Erik Velásquez García

Chapter 21. An Osteobiographic Narrative of Copan’s Early Royal Dynasty
Jane E. Buikstra, Loa P. Traxler, Ellen E. Bell, and Katherine A. Miller Wolf

Chapter 22. Osteobiography: The Next Generation
John Robb

List of Contributors

Index