Archaeology and Bioarchaeology of Population Movement among the Prehispanic Maya

Andrea Cucina Doctorate degree in Paleopathology (1998), Catholic University of Rome, School of Medicine, Italy. Laurea (honoris) in Biological Sciences with a major in Physical anthropology, University of Rome La Sapienza. Currently, Full Professor at the School of Anthropological Sciences, Autonomous University of Yucatán in Merida, (Mexico). Member of the National System of Investigators Level II (Mexico). He has carried out field and lab research in Italy, Dominican Republic República, Pakistan, Florida, México and Guatemala. His main interest is in dental anthropology of extant and recent populations. Currently, it focuses on paleodiet, paleopathology, developmental stress and population dynamics of the ancient Mayas (though not exclusively), and the early colonizers on the New World, as well as on biodistance studies of pre- and proto-historic populations in Europe and South America. He is Book Review Editor of HOMO, Journal of Comparative Human Biology, and member of several academic international associations. He has authored or co-authored more than eighty scientific papers in international journals (American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Journal of Archaeological Sciences, Latin American Antiquity, NATURE, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, HOMO and more), chapter in edited volumes, and has edited six books.

• Introduction. Andrea Cucina.- Chapter 1: Xcambo and its Commercial Dynamics Within the Framework of the Maya Area. Thelma N. Sierra Sosa.- Chapter 2: Ceramic Traditions in the Calakmul Region: An Indicator of the Movement of Ideas or Populations? María del Rosario Domínguez Carrasco & William J. Folan.- Chapter 3: Cultural Interchange Regarding the Distribution of Fine Paste Ceramics Within Riverine Societies Along the Usumacinta’s Mid to Low Basin and Various Gulf Coast’s Communities. Socorro del Pilar Jiménez Alvarez.- Chapter 4: Calakmul: Power, Perseverance and Persistence. William J. Folan, Maria del Rosario Domínguez Carrasco, Joel D. Gunn, Abel Morales L., Raymundo González H., Gerardo Villanueva García & Nuría Torrescano Valle.- Chapter 5: The Historic Presence of Itza, Putun and Toltec in the Maya Lowlands at the End of the Classic and Postclassic Periods. Rafael Cobos.- Chapter 6: The Use of Theoretical and Methodological Bases in Population Movements’ Studies: Paleo and Archaeo Demographic Approaches. Allan Ortega Muñoz.- Chapter 7: Population Dynamics during the Classic and Postclassic Period Maya in the Northern Maya Lowlands: The Analysis of Dental Morphological Traits. Andrea Cucina.- Chapter 8:The Buk Phase Burials of Belize: Testing Genetic Relatedness Among Early Postclassic Groups in Northern Belize Using Dental Morphology. Gabriel Wrobel & Elizabeth Graham.- Chapter 9: Dental Nonmetric Investigation of Population Dynamics at Mayapan. Stanley Serafin, Carlos Peraza Lope & Andrea Cucina.- Chapter 10: Dental Morphometric and Strontium Isotope Evidence for Population History at Tikal, Guatemala. Andrew K. Scherer & Lori E. Wright.- Chapter 11: Strontium Isotopes and the Study of Human Mobility Among the Ancient Maya. T. Douglas Price, James H. Burton, Paul D. Fullagar, Lori E. Wright, Jane E. Buikstra & Vera Tiesler.-Chapter 12: House Or Lineage? How Intracemetery Kinship Analysis. Contributes To The Debate In The Maya Area. William N. Duncan & Jon B. Hageman.- Chapter 13: Shifts in Artificial Head Forms, Population Movements, and Ethnicity Among the Postclassic Maya. Vera Tiesler.