CHAPTER 2. Skeletons from Stillwater: Good Times and Bad Times

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv
5. INTRODUCTION. Tales from the Dead: What Bones Tell Us about Our Past, and Why We Should Know 1
6. CHAPTER 1. The Lives and Lifestyles of Ancient Hunter-Gatherers: "Poor, nasty, brutish and short" in the American Great Basin 13
7. CHAPTER 2. Skeletons from Stillwater: Good Times and Bad Times 35
8. CHAPTER 3. From Foraging to Farming: A Regional Perspective 65
9. CHAPTER 4. Going Global: Bioarchaeology of the Foraging-to-Farming Transition 96
10. CHAPTER 5. Europeans Arrive: Circumstances and Settings for Native Population Collapse in the Americas 121
11. CHAPTER 6. Bioarchaeology of Population Decline and Extinction in Spanish Florida 145
12. CHAPTER 7. Sot-Weed to Sangamo: Life and Death in Frontier North America 179
13. CHAPTER 8. On to Sangamo Country: Colonizing the Midwest 203
14. CHAPTER 9. Life's Transitions: The Bioarchaeological Past 228
15. INDEX 237