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- Title
Health Consequences of Contact on Two Seventeenth-Century Native Groups from the Mid-Atlantic Region of Maryland.
- Authors
Becker, Sara
- Abstract
This study examined the skeletal remains of two different native groups, the Piscataway (Algonquian) and the Susquehannock (Iroquoian), who resided in close geographic proximity in the Tidewater-Potomac region of Maryland in order to understand their health during the 1,600 s CE. Both groups had differing interactions with colonial settlers and numerous historic accounts of violence. The results show some evidence of infectious disease and no types of interpersonal violence on the skeletal remains of either group. Other health disparities found were associated more with cultural and behavioral differences between these two ethnic groups than with direct colonial involvement.
- Subjects
ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations; HEALTH of Native Americans; ARCHAEOLOGICAL human remains; PISCATAWAY (North American people); SUSQUEHANNOCK (North American people); TREPONEMATOSES; BACON'S Rebellion, 1676; NATIVE Americans -- First contact with Europeans
- Publication
International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2013, Vol 17, Issue 4, p713
- ISSN
1092-7697
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10761-013-0240-3