The Routledge Handbook of Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology

INTRODUCTION

1.1. The Early Days of Mesoamerican Osteology

1.2. Management and Conservation of Human Remains From Mesoamerica: Ethical, Legal, and Technical Recommendations

1.3. The Preceramic Skeletal Record of Mexico and Central America

1.4. North of Mesoamerica: Bioarchaeology of the Northwest, North-Central, and Northeast

1.5. Bioarchaeological Studies in the Southern Periphery of Mesoamerica

2.1. The Bioarchaeology of Preclassic Mesoamerica and the Advent of Statehood

2.2. Bioarchaeology of Oaxaca: Major Developments in the Study of 3500 years of Mortuary Practice in Southern Mexico

2.3. Maya Bioarchaeology

2.4. The People of the Southern Central Region of Veracruz

2.5. The Bioarchaeology of the Central Highlands of Mesoamerica From the Early Classic Period Through the Toltec Period

2.6. The Heartland of the Empire: Studying the Aztecs

3.1. The Inhabitants of Monte Albán: A Bioarchaeological Approach

3.2. The Multiethnic Population of a Teotihuacan Neighborhood Center: Bioarchaeological, Archaeometric, and Ancient DNA Analyses

3.3. The Community of Xcambó, a Classic-Period Maya Port in the Yucatan Peninsula

3.4. Bioarchaeology in Copán, Honduras: Spearheading Maya Bioarchaeology

4.1. The Bioarchaeology of Permanent Body Modifications in Mesoamerica

4.2. Royal Bodies: The Life Histories of Janaab’ Pakal and The "Red Queen" of Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico

4.3. Archaeothanatology: A Body-Anchored Approach to Mesoamerican Mortuary Analyses

4.4. The Bioarchaeology of Ritualized Violence and Posthumous Treatments of the Human Body in Mesoamerica

Judith Ruiz González and Vera Tiesler

5.1. Mesoamerican Paleopathology: A Bioarchaeological Approach to Diseases From the Past

5.2. Living Conditions, Gender, and Stature

5.3. Geographic Variation in Mesoamerican Paleodiets: A Review of Recent Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Analyses

6.1. Population Continuity and Mobility Across Mesoamerica

6.2. Baseline Strontium Isotope Ratios in Mesoamerica

6.3. The Paleo-DNA of Ancient Mesoamerican Peoples

6.4. Population Structure, Fertility, and Growth

6.5. The Craniometry of Mesoamerican Population Distances

7.1. 3D Digitization and Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains for Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology

7.2. Methods in Bioarchaeology: What’s New in Profiling an Individual Inside and Out

7.3. Histomorphology of Un-Decalcified Bone in Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology

7.4. The Phenomenon of Mummification in Ancient Mexico

8.1. The Bioarchaeology of Colonial New Spain

8.2. The Serdán Brothers: Reconstructing the Mortuary Trajectory of the Three Heroes of the Mexican Revolution

8.3. General Trends in Size in Maya Populations of the Yucatan Peninsula From the Preclassic to the 2010s: A Diachronic Perspective From Human EcologyHugo Azcorra, Saul Chay Vela, Oana del Castillo Chávez, and Federico Dickinson Bannack

8.4. Making Research of Human Reference Collections Available to Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology

Biography

Vera Tiesler is Research Professor at the Mexican Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, in Mérida, where she heads the Laboratory of Bioarchaeology. She received her BA in art history from Tulane University, an MA in archaeology at the Mexican Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH), and a PhD in anthropology at the National University of Mexico (UNAM), with five accredited years of medical school (MHH, Hannover, Germany, and IPN, Mexico). Tiesler’s academic interest lies in illuminating the human condition of the ancient Maya and of past society in general.