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A variety of osteological techniques provide direct estimates of the effects of subsistence base changes on health in prehistoric populations. A model is presented for the interactions among demographic, skeletal and nutritional variables across the transition from hunting and gathering to maize agriculture based economies. Data on population composition, growth retardation, growth arrest markers, cortical bone dynamics, and nutrition‐related aspects of dental health are examined in the light of this model. These techniques permit a quantification of the biological impact of the transition from Woodland to Mississippian economies in the Lower Illinois Valley region from 0 to 1000 A. D.
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