The Biocultural Consequences of Contact in Mexico : Five Centuries of Change.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- 1. Contextualizing the Biocultural Examination of Colonization in Mexico -- 2. Movement, Power, and Race: Dynamics of Colonialism in Mexico -- 3. Spanish / North African Population Affinity: Implications for North American Mestizos -- 4. The Domestication of Death among the Natives of New Spain Seen from the Cemetery of the Royal Hospital of San José de los Naturales -- 5. Biocultural Impacts of Labor in Colonial Mexico City: The Intersections of Age, Sex, and Heritage -- 6. The Microevolution of Dental Morphology in the Northern Maya Lowlands after European Contact -- 7. Regional Changes in Population Structures with Spanish Contact -- 8. Genetic Diversity in Mesoamerica, Pre- and Postcontact -- 9. Living and Health Conditions in a Religious Order: The Nuns from San Jerónimo, Mexico City -- 10. A View of Stress and Inequality in Colonial Mexico City through Cranial Fluctuating Asymmetry -- 11. Reflections on 1521 and the Bioarchaeological Study of the Conquest of Mexico -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

This volume examines how Mexican populations have been shaped both culturally and biologically by European colonization, drawing on methods from archaeology, bioarchaeology, genetics, and history and providing evidence for the resilience of the Mexican people in the face of tumultuous change.

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