Southern Anthropologist
Abstract
NUTRITIONAL INFERENCE FROM FAUNAE REMAINS AT THE PARKIN SITE. Parkin, a late Mississippian site in Arkansas, provides the opportunity, using archaeological evidence, to examine the nutritional status of a population which may have faced demographic collapse after the De Soto expedition of 1539-1543. Paleobotanical research by Williams shows Parkin conforms to generalized notions of maize-based agriculture. Human skeletal assessments by Murray show evidence of possible nutritional stress at Parkin. This study provides interpretive faunal analysis from a house floor excavated at Parkin. Integrating faunal, botanical, and human skeletal evidence provides a profile of nutritional adequacy and diversity. Nutritional stress was not a factor in the late Mississippian/early historic transition at Parkin.
Relational Format
journal article
Recommended Citation
Keck, Charlene
(1996)
"The Nutritional Status of a Late Mississippian Population,"
Southern Anthropologist: Vol. 23:
No.
1, Article 7.
Available at:
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/southern_anthropologist/vol23/iss1/7
