Unit 14_BG32_Demography & Paleopathology

Pueblo Grande demography/paleopathology data sets are by burial group (BG) under each project heading. If the burial group for a feature is unknown, the data are identified only at the project area or stripping area level. Data contained include age, sex, stature, and presence/absence of various indicators of stress and infectious disease listing elements affected. Stature estimates (when preservation allowed for measurements of femur and/or tibia length) were calculated using corrected regression formulae (del Angel and Cisneros, 2004) originally derived by Genoves (1967). Indication of presence/absence of some diseases (e.g., scurvy, rickets, tuberculsosis, coccidioidomycosis, treponematosis) is followed by presence/absence information of specific skeletal indicators associated with that disease (e.g., bowed long bones, vertebral lytic lesions, caries sicca). This particular data set is for BG 32, which includes information on 82 burial features. del Angel A, Cisneros HB. 2004. Technical note: modification of regression equations used to estimate stature in Mesoamerican skeletal remains. Am J Phys Anthropol 125:264-265. Genoves S. 1967. Proportionality of long bones and their relationship to stature among Mesoamericans. Am J Phys Anthropol 26:67-77.