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An Osteological Test of Changes in Subsistence and Settlement Patterns at Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

David S. Weaver
David S. Weaver*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109
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Abstract

Infant and child skeletal remains from the site of Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico, were examined for particular skeletal pathologies. The observed frequencies of those pathologies do not support a hypothesis of a temporal shift in subsistence patterns. A hypothesized change in settlement pattern is supported by the increase of a particular class of skeletal lesions.

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American Antiquity , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , April 1981 , pp. 361 - 364
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1981

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