Postcontact Biocultural Adaptation of Native American Populations in Spanish Florida

这笔赠款允许拉森博士和他的合作者分析一个 从使命遗址发现的一系列人类骨骼 佛罗里达阿米莉亚岛的圣玛利亚。这些遗骸可以追溯到 时间1684年。1702年，被发现在 清理土地以进行房地产开发。应急开挖 产生了一系列大约175个个体。这些遗骸 将进行分析，以提供人口和健康数据。性别和 死亡时的年龄将被确定。颅后、牙齿和颅骨 将对各种要素进行衡量，以提供有关增长的信息。 还将记录反映疾病的病理状况。 这个项目的目标是深入了解人类的反应 压力通过比较一系列骨骼群体， 不同时期的数据，拉森博士得到了 美国东南部印第安人团体的信息， 欧洲殖民。通过对后来群体的研究， 可以确定在接触期间发生了什么， 社会状况发生了变化，因为他们的饮食也发生了变化， 因为他们接触了欧洲的疾病圣诞老人的使命 玛丽亚人口特别重要，因为这些印第安人是 他们是圣凯瑟琳群岛的直系后裔， 在圣凯瑟琳斯岛被西班牙人占领后， 抛弃拉森博士已经分析了可比的圣。 凯瑟琳的材料。 这项研究很重要，因为它显示了人类人口 从生物学上适应因改变饮食、疾病 和社会状况。在美国东南部， 通过以下方式获得对这些独立变量的控制 历史记录和考古发掘， 为骨骼分析提供了极好的背景。因为 这些骨骼将被重新埋葬，重要的是要进行 现在的研究。

This grant permits Dr. Larsen and his collaborators to analyze a series of human skeletons recovered from the site of Mission Santa Maria on Amelia Island, Florida. These remains date from the period 1684 . 1702 and were discovered during the process of land clearing for property development. Emergency excavation yielded a series of aproximately 175 individuals. These remains will be analyzed to provide demographic and health data. Sex and age.at.death will be determined. Postcranial, dental and cranial elements will be measured to provide information on growth. Pathological conditions which reflect disease will also be noted. The goal of this project is to gain insight into human response to stress. Through comparison of a series of skeletal populations which date to different times, Dr. Larsen has obtained baseline information for Southeast U.S. Indian groups immediately prior to European colonization. Through study of later groups it is possible to determine what happened during the contact period as the social situation changed, as their diet was also altered and as they were exposed to European diseases. The Mission Santa Maria population is especially important since these Indians are the direct descendents of a St. Catherines Island group and were moved to Amelia Island by the Spaniards after St. Catherines was abandoned. Dr. Larsen has already analyzed comparable St. Catherines material. This research is important because it shows how human populations adapt biologically to stresses imposed by changing diet, disease and social situation. In the Southeast U.S. it is possible to gain some control of these independent variables through historical records and archaeological excavation and this provides an excellent context for the skeletal analysis. Because these skeletons will be reburied it is important to conduct the research now.