Agricultural Intensification and Prehistoric Health in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico

Hodges, Denise C.

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“…Such a pattern indicates the strong synergistic relation between chronic malnutrition and infectious disease morbidity and mortality (207). It should be noted, however, that the intensification of agricultural systems, whether in the past or present, shows no direct linkage with increased infectious disease rates (41,112).…”

Section: Macroevolutionarymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Anthropology of Infectious Disease

Inhorn¹,

Brown²

1990

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

174

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Section: Macroevolutionarymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Anthropology of Infectious Disease

Inhorn¹,

Brown²

1990

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

174

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“…Much of this research has focused on documenting the effects that increased cultigen consumption had when hunter-gatherers shifted to agriculture (e.g. Cohen 1977;Hodges 1987;Cohen & Armelagos 1984; Swedlund & Armelagos 1990).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Physical anthropological evidence for the evolution of social complexity in coastal Southern California

Lambert¹,

Walker

1991

Antiquity

108

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In this paper we use osteological data to evaluate theories about the rise of chiefdoms in southern California. To do this, we examine skeletal evidence for changes in diet, disease and violence in Santa Barbara Channel area populations. These collections date from before and after the development of large, sedentary coastal villages and a political system that facilitated inter-village economic interaction. Our data show that the health consequences of the development of these chiefdoms are comparable to those seen with the development of complex agricultural societies. They also provide insights into the causes of social complexity in non-agricultural societies.

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“…Can high levels of infection in North American skeletal samples be attributed to a diet limited to domesticated plants? Hodges (1987), showing that no deleterious consequences resulted from agricultural intensification in Oaxaca, suggested diet may be more diversified in a primary centre of agriculture than in a marginal secondary area. This interesting hypothesis needs to be tested in a wide variety of settings.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Healthy but mortal: human biology and the first farmers of western Europe

Jackes¹,

Lubell²,

Meiklejohn

1997

Antiquity

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What do we know about the effects of the transition to agriculture on human biology? A literature has grown up that gives us the impression that we know a great deal about what happened to bones and teeth when people became sedentary farmers. A review of the sources of these ideas and the evidence supporting them, especially based on work in Portugal, reveals that a reconsideration of the biological consequences of farming in Europe is overdue.

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Agricultural Intensification and Prehistoric Health in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico

Cited by 17 publications

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The Anthropology of Infectious Disease

The Anthropology of Infectious Disease

Physical anthropological evidence for the evolution of social complexity in coastal Southern California

Healthy but mortal: human biology and the first farmers of western Europe

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