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Bioarchaeology of
Native American Adaptation in the Spanish Borderlands EDITED BY BRENDA J. BAKER AND LISA KEALHOFER UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA 
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Baker, Brenda J. Bioarchaeology of Native American Adaptation in the Spanish Borderlands. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1996, number line: 01 00 99 98 97 96 6 5 4 3 2 1. ISBN 0-8130-1464-6 Octavo (9.25 in. by 6.25 in.); 232pp.; very good hardcover; very good dust jacket; dust jacket lightly bumped at corner; book lightly bumped at corner; crisp; clean; bright. Most researchers of the European settlement of North America assume that Native American populations were decimated solely and uniformly by introduced disease. Baker and Kealhofer challenge that assumption, demonstrating the Native American societies responded to European encroachment in complex and varied ways. They draw on data from population case studies in what is now the southern United States to establish convincingly that archaeological and bioanthropological research are powerful tools for cultural interpretation. --Quote from dust jacket |
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