Disease and demography in the Americas / edited by John W. Verano and Douglas H. Ubelaker.

"One of a series of symposia produced as part of Seeds of Change, the National Museum of Natural History's commemoration of the Columbus Quincentenary"--Foreword

Skeletal paleopathology : probabilities, possibilities, and impossibilities / Donald J. Ortner -- Prehistoric disease and demography in the Andes / John W. Verano -- Population decline and extinction in La Florida / Clark Spencer Larsen ... [et al.] -- Health and disease in the late prehistoric Southeast / Mary Lucas Powell -- Health and disease in the Southwest before and after Spanish contact / Ann L.W. Stodder and Debra L. Martin -- Demography of prehistoric and early historic Northern Plains populations / Douglas W. Owsley -- Diet and disease in late prehistory / Jane E. Buikstra -- Disease and sociopolitical systems in late prehistoric Illinois / George R. Milner -- Transformation and disease : precontact Ontario Iroquoians / Shelley R. Saunders, Peter G. Ramsden, and D. Ann Herring

Effects of contact on the Chumash Indians / Phillip L. Walker and John R. Johnson -- Impact of disease on the precontact and early historic populations of New England and the Maritimes / Catherine C. Carlson, George J. Armelagos, and Ann L. Magennis -- Pre-Columbian treponematosis in coastal North Carolina / Georgieann Bogdan and David S. Weaver -- Summary on disease before and after contact / Arthur C. Aufderheide -- North American Indian population size : changing perspectives / Douglas H. Ubelaker -- Disease and population decline in the Northeast / Dean R. Snow -- Depopulation in the Southeast after 1492 / Russell Thornton, Jonathan Warren, and Tim Miller -- Prehisotric population density in the Amazon Basin / Betty J. Meggers

Impact of disease in the sixteenth-century Andean world / Noble David Cook -- Native American trade centers as contagious disease foci / Henry F. Dobyns -- Population and Spanish contact in the Southwest / Steadman Upham -- Yellow fever and the Africanization of the Caribbean / Kenneth F. Kiple and Brian T. Higgins -- Population decline from two epidemics on the Northwest coast / Robert Boyd -- The 1832 inoculation program on the Missouri River / Michael K. Trimble -- Contact shock in Northwestern New Spain, 1518-1764 / Daniel T. Reff -- Summary on population size before and after contact / Alfred W. Crosby