The Biocultural Consequences of Contact in Mexico
The Biocultural Consequences of Contact in Mexico
Five Centuries of Change
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.
Heather J. H. Edgar is professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico and forensic anthropologist for the State of New Mexico. She is the author of DentalMorphology for Anthropology: An Illustrated Manual. Cathy Willermet is professor of anthropology at Central Michigan University. She is coeditor of Evaluating Evidence in Biological Anthropology: The Strange and the Familiar and Bioarchaeology of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica: An Interdisciplinary Approach.
