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Contents Acknowledgments xv 1. Introduction 1 Patricia M. Lambert 2. Ancient Diseases, Modern Perspectives: Treponematosis and Tuberculosis in the Age of Agriculture 6 Mary Lucas Powell 3. Warfare-Related Trauma in the Late Prehistory of Alabama 35 Patricia S. Bridges Keith P. Jacobi Mary Lucas Powell 4. Transitions at Moundville: A Question of Collapse 63 Margaret J. Schoeninger Lisa Sattenspiel Mark R. Schurr 5. Dental Health at Early Historic Fusihatchee Town: Biocultural Implications of Contact in Alabama 78 Marianne Reeves 6. Agricultural Melodies and Alternative Harmonies in Florida and Georgia 96 Dale L. Hutchinson Clark Spencer Larsen Lynette Norr Margaret J. Schoeninger 7. Inferring Iron-De¤ciency Anemia from Human Skeletal Remains: The Case of the Georgia Bight 116 Clark Spencer Larsen Leslie E. Sering 8. A Comparison of Degenerative Joint Disease between Upland and Coastal Prehistoric Agriculturalists from Georgia 134 Matthew A. Williamson 9. Dental Health and Late Woodland Subsistence in Coastal North Carolina 148 Elizabeth Monahan Driscoll David S. Weaver 10. Life on the Periphery: Health in Farming Communities of Interior North Carolina and Virginia 168 Patricia M. Lambert 11. “Utmost Confusion” Reconsidered: Bioarchaeology and Secondary Burial in Late Prehistoric Interior Virginia 195 Debra L. Gold References 219 Contributors 273 Index 277 viii Contents Figures and Tables F I G U R E S 1-1 Locations of Archaeological Sites Discussed in Text. For details on site locations, see individual chapters. 3 2-1 “Saber-Shin” Tibiae of Young Adult Male. Burial 1364, Moundville, Alabama 11 2-2 Remodeled Caries Sicca Lesions on Posterior Cranial Vault of an Adult Female. AMNH 432, Upper Nodena, Arkansas 11 2-3 Treponemal Lesions of Right Nasal Margin and Right Maxilla of a Young Adult Female. NMNH 385540, Irene Mound, Georgia 12 2-4 Two Vertebrae of a Young Adult Female Showing Tuberculous Lesions. NMNH 385562, Irene Mound, Georgia 26 2-5 Left Ilium of Adult Female with Tuberculous Destruction of Sacroiliac Auricular Surface. NMNH 385411, Irene Mound, Georgia 27 2-6 Vertebral Column of a Young Adult Male with Pott’s Disease. Burial 2150, Moundville, Alabama 28 3-1 Perimortem Cutmarks on Individual from Koger’s Island (1Lu92, Burial 35) 52 3-2 Individual from the Perry Site (1Lu25, Burial 5) Who Survived for a Time after Scalping 53 4-1 Percent of Burials Accompanied by Speci¤c Categories of Grave Goods in Four Periods of Occupation at Moundville 70 4-2 Morphological Diversity of Maize and Fauna Recovered from Three Periods of Occupation at Moundville 73 6-1 Isotopic Composition of Preindustrial Food Resources in the Circum-Caribbean Region 99 6-2 Locations of Sites Mentioned 101 6-3 Dietary Signatures from Early Prehistoric Georgia and Florida Populations 109 6-4 Dietary Signatures from Late Prehistoric Georgia Populations 111 6-5 Dietary Signatures from Late Prehistoric Florida Populations 112 6-6 Dietary Signatures from the Mission Period Georgia and Florida Populations 113 6-7 Mean Dietary Signatures from the Total Sample of Georgia and Florida Populations 114 7-1 Mild Expressions of Cribra Orbitalia and Porotic Hyperostosis in Two Adults, Amelia Island, Florida 123 7-2 Severe Expressions of Cribra Orbitalia and Porotic Hyperostosis in Two Juveniles, Amelia Island, Florida 124 8-1 Approximate Site Locations 136 8-2 Frequency of Upland Female and Male Spinal Segments Affected by Degenerative Joint Disease 142 8-3 Frequency of Upland Female and Male Appendicular Joints Affected by Degenerative Joint Disease 143 8-4 Frequency of Upland and Coastal Male Joints Affected by Degenerative Joint Disease 144 8-5 Frequency of Upland and Coastal Female Joints Affected by Degenerative Joint Disease 144 9-1 Percent of Carious Teeth by Site, Selected North Carolina Coastal Ossuary Sites in Chronological Order 160 9-2 Percent of Carious Teeth by Tooth Type, Comparison of Georgia Agriculturalists and Preagriculturalists, and Selected North Carolina Coastal Ossuary Sites 161 9-3 Percent of Teeth with at Least One Linear Enamel Defect, Selected North Carolina Ossuary Sites 162 9-4 Percent of Teeth with at Least One Linear Enamel Defect, Comparison of Georgia Agriculturalists x Figures and Tables and Preagriculturalists, and Selected North Carolina Coastal Ossuary Sites 163 9-5 Scatterplot Comparison of d13 C and d15 N Ratios from Georgia Agriculturalists and Preagriculturalists and the Flynt Site, a Late Woodland North Carolina Coastal Ossuary 164 10-1 Location of Archaeological Sites 173 10-2 Temporal and Geographic Variation in the Frequency of Carious Maxillary Incisors 178 10-3 Temporal and Geographic Variation in the Frequency of Moderate-to-Severe...