Postcontact Native American health and adaptation: Assessing the impact of introduced diseases in sixteenth century Gulf Coast Florida

This dissertation focuses on the introduction of new infectious diseases into the New World as European exploration and colonization escalated during the sixteenth-century. The evidence from human skeletal remains and mortuary sites is presented as particularly suitable for enhancing ethnohistoric descriptions of the events that transpired during that time.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Anthropology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Hutchinson, Dale L.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Lewis, R. Barry

• Anthropology, Archaeology
• Anthropology, Physical

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1991 Hutchinson, Dale L.

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9136621
(UMI)AAI9136621

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/19692