Life and Death in the Ancient City of Teotihaucan

by Storey, Rebecca

• ISBN13: 9780817305598
• ISBN10: 0817305599
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr

Summary

Cities arose independently in both the Old World and in the pre-Columbian New World. Lacking written records, many of these New World cities can be studied only through archaeology, including the earliest pre-Columbian city, Teotihuacan, Mexico, one of the largest cities of its time (150 B.C. to A.D. 750). Thus, an important question is how similar New World cities are to their Old World counterparts. Before recent times, the dense populations of cities made them unhealthy places because of poor sanitation and inadequate food supplies. Storey's research shows clearly that although Teotihuacan was a very different environment and culture from 17th-century London, these two great cities are comparable in terms of health problems and similar death rates.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiii
The Problem and Its Theoretical Foundations	p. 1
Teotihuacan and the Demography of Preindustrial Cities	p. 27
The Tlajinga 33 Apartment Compound The Background of the Project	p. 45
Summary	p. 68
The Tlajinga 33 Skeletons	p. 71
General Demographic Characteristics of the Tlajinga 33 Population	p. 102
Paleodemographic Analysis of the Tlajinga 33 Skeletons	p. 137
Summary	p. 190
Paleopathology, Health, and Mortality at Tlajinga 33	p. 193
Mortality Models and the Demographic Significance of Tlajinga 33	p. 238
Conclusion	p. 265
Appendix: Metric Measurements Used in the Discriminant-Function Sexing	p. 267
References Cited	p. 271
Index	p. 299
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