Pre-Historic America

Historic Heteroessentialism and Other Orderings in Early America

The Archaeology of Race and Racialization in Historic America

Historical archaeologists have come a long way from equating the study of race in the archaeological record with the identification of objects as ethnic markers. This is in part due to Orser’s extensive and intellectually rigorous catalog on race that has encouraged scholars to see race as a complex structural process rather than an artifact associated with a particular ethnic or racialized gro...

Pre‐historic eating patterns in Latin America and protective effects of plant‐based diets on cardiovascular risk factors

In this review, we present the contributions to nutrition science from Latin American native peoples and scientists, appreciated from a historic point of view since pre-historic times to the modern age. Additionally, we present epidemiological and clinical studies on the area of plant-based diets and their relation with the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases conducted in recent...

Gender in Pre-Hispanic America

Victor Horsley on "trephining in pre-historic times".

Victor Horsley was intrigued by newly discovered, ancient trepanned skulls, especially those that revealed that the operation was performed on living patients. He examined the man-made openings as an expert on the locus of the primate motor cortex and as a surgeon who had successfully removed parts of the motor cortex to treat Jacksonian epilepsy. He postulated that trepanation originated as a ...