21
Views
6
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Article

Nutrient Characteristics of Southwest Native American Pre-contact Diets

Pages 273-284 | Published online: 13 Jul 2009

References

  • Haury EW. The Stratigraphy and Archaeology of Ventana Cave, Arizona. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM 1950
  • Martin PS, Plog F. The Archaeology of Arizona: A Study of the Southwest Region. Natural History Press, Garden City, NJ 1973
  • Swanson EH, Jr. The geographic foundations of the desert culture. The Current Status of Anthropological Research in the Great Basin, W d'Azevedo, WA Davis, DD Fowler. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV 1966; 137–46
  • Wormington HM. Prehistoric Indians of the Southwest. Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver, CO 1968
  • Cohen MN. The Food Crisis in Prehistory: Overpopulation and the Origins of Agriculture. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT 1977
  • Irwin HT, Wormington M. Paleo Indian tool types in the Great Plains. Am Antiquity 1970; 35: 124–34
  • Speth JD. Bison Kills and Bone Counts: Decision Making by Ancient Hunters. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL 1983
  • Eaton SB, Shostak M, Konner M. The Paleolithic Prescription: A Program of Diet and Exercise and a Design for Living. Harper and Row Publishers, New York 1988
  • Lieberman LS. Biocultural consequences of animals versus plants as sources of fats, proteins, and other nutrients. Food and Evolution: Toward a Theory of Human Food Habits, M. Harris, EB. Ross. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA 1897; 225–58
  • Hamilton EMN, Whitney EN, Sizer FS. Nutrition Concepts and Controversies. 5th edn. West Publishing Company, St Paul, MN 1991
  • Berkes F, Farkas CS. Eastern James Bay Cree Indians: changing patterns of wild food use and nutrition. Ecol Food Nutr 1978; 7: 155–72
  • Jochim MA. Strategies for Survival. Academic Press, New York 1981
  • Winterhalder B. Foraging strategies in the Boreal Forest: an analysis of Cree hunting and gathering. Hunter-Gatherer Foraging Strategies, B. Winterhalder, EA. Smith. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL 1981; 66–98
  • Ritenbaugh CK, Goodby CS. Beyond the thrifty gene: metabolic implications of prehistoric migration into the new world. Med Anthropol 1989; 11: 227–35
  • Field RA. Increased animal protein production with mechanical deboners. World Rev Anim Prod 1976; 12: 61–73
  • Lee RB. Population growth and the beginnings of sedentary life among the !Kung Bushmen. Population Growth: Anthropological Implications, B. Spooner. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 1972; 329–42
  • Lightfoot K. Resource uncertainty and buffering strategies in an arid, marginal environment. Ecological Models in Economic Prehistory, G. Bronitsky. Arizona Board of Regents, Tempe, AZ 1983; 189–218
  • Lee RB. Kung Bushman subsistence: an input-output analysis. Contributions to Anthropology: Ecological Essays, D. Damas. National Museums of Canada, Ottawa 1969
  • Lee RB. The !Kung San: Men, Women, and Work in a Foraging Society. Cambridge University Press, New York 1979
  • Gould RA. Subsistence behavior among the Western Desert aborigines of Australia. Oceania 1969; 39: 253–74
  • Spier L. Havasupai: ethnography Anthropological Paper. American Museum of National History 1928; 25: 283–329
  • Woodburn J. An introduction to Hadza ecology. Man the Hunter, RB. Lee, I. DeVore. Aldine Publishing Company, Chicago, IL 1968; 49–55
  • Draper HH. The Aboriginal Eskimo diet in modern perspective. Am Anthropol 1977; 79: 309–16
  • Neel JV. Diabetes mellitus: a thrifty genotype rendered detrimental by progress. Am J Human Genet 1962; 14: 353–62
  • Neel JV. The thrifty genotype revisited. The Genetics of Diabetes Mellitus, J. Kobberling, R. Tattersall. Academic Press, London 1982
  • Christensen NJ, Galbo H, Hansen JF. Catecholamines and exercise. Diabetes 1979; 28: 58–62
  • Sato Y, Hayazmizu S, Yamamoto C. Improved insulin sensitivity in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism after physical training. Int J Sports Med 1986; 7: 307–10
  • Cohen MN. Health and the Rise of Civilization. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT 1989
  • Hester JJ. The agency of man in animal extinctions. Pleistocene Extinctions: The Search for a Cause, PS. Martin, HE. Wright. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT 1967; 169–92
  • Martin P, Wright HE. Pleistocene Extinctions: The Search for a Cause. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT 1967
  • Edwards WE. The late Pleistocene extinction and diminution in size of many mammalian species. Pleistocene Extinctions: The Search for a Cause, PS. Martin, HE. Wright. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT 1967; 141–54
  • Martin JF. On the estimation of the sizes of local groups in a hunting-gathering environment. Am Anthropol 1973; 75: 1448–68
  • Martin JF. Prehistoric overkill. Pleistocene Extinctions: The Search for a Cause, PS. Martin, HE. Wright. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT 1967; 75–120
  • Dahl K. Ancient seeds for modern needs: the native seeds/search story. Heritage Seed Program 1991; 4: 17–21
  • Jennings JD. Danger cave. Anthropological Paper No. 27. University of Utah. 1957
  • Dick HW. Bat cave. Research Monogram No. 27. School of America. 1965
  • Hitchcock RK. Patterns of sedentism among the Basarwa of eastern Botswana. Politics and History in Band Societies, E. Leacock, R. Lee. Cambridge University Press, New York 1982; 223–68
  • Blackburn RH. In the land of milk and honey: Okeiek adaptations to their forests and neighbors. Politics in Band Societies, E. Leacock, R. Lee. Cambridge University Press, New York 1982; 283–306
  • Dufour DL. Manioc as a dietary staple: implications for the budgeting of time and energy in the Northwest Amazon. Food Energy in Tropical Ecosystems, DJ. Cattle, KH. Schwerin. Gordon and Breach, New York 1985; 1–20
  • Johnson AW. Time allocation in a Machiquenga community. Ethnology 1975; 14: 301–10
  • Rappaport RA. The flow of energy in an agricultural society. Sci Am 1971; 225: 116–32
  • Winterhalder B. The analysis of hunter-gatherer diets: stalking an optimal foraging model. Food and Evolution: Toward a Theory of Human Food Habits, M. Harris, EB. Ross. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA 1987
  • Weber C. Nutritive Value of Traditional Navajo Foods. University of Arizona, Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Tucson, AZ, no date
  • Wu Leung W-T. Food Composition Table for Use in Latin America. The Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama; and Bethesda: National Institutes of Health, Guatemala City 1961
  • Nabhan GP, Berry JW, Anson C. Papago Indian floodwater fields and tepary bean protein yields. Ecol Food Nutr 1980; 10: 71–78
  • Nabhan GP, Weber CW, Berry JW. Legumes in the Papago-Pima Indian diet and ecological niche. The Kiva 1979; 44: 173–90
  • Watahomigie LJ, Powskey M, Bender J. Ethnobotany of the Hualapai. Hualapai Bilingual Program, Peach Springs 1982
  • Winkelman M. Pharmacological Properties of some Piman (O'odham) Medicinal Plants for the Treatment of Diabetes. Native Seeds/SEARCH, Tucson, AZ 1992
  • Frati-Munari AC, Gordillo BE, Altamirano P. Hypoglycemic effect of Opuntia streptaccantha lemaire in NIDDM. Diabetes Care 1988; 11: 63–6
  • Koivisto VA, Yki-Jarvinen H, DeFronzo RA. Physical training and insulin sensitivity. Diabetes Metab Rev 1986; 1: 445–81
  • Thorburn AW, Brand JC, Truswell AS. Slowly digested and absorbed carbohydrate in traditional bushfoods: a protective factor against diabetes?. Am J Clin Nutr 1987; 45: 98–106
  • Buikstra J, Cook DC. Paleopathology: an American account. Annu Rev Anthropol 1980; 9: 433–70
  • Nabhan FP, Weber CW, Berry JW. Variation in composition of Hopi Indian beans. Ecol Food Nutr 1985; 16: 135–52
  • Calloway DH, Giauque RD, Costa FM. The superior mineral content of some American Indian foods in comparison to federally donated counterpart commodities. Ecol Food Nutr 1974; 3: 203–11
  • Kuhnlein HV, Calloway DH, Harland BF. Composition of traditional Hopi foods. J Am Dietet Assoc 1979; 75: 37–41
  • Muir JG, Birkett A, Brown I. Food processing and maize variety affects amounts of starch escaping digestion in the small intestine. Am J Clin Nutr 1995; 61: 82–9
  • Ortner D, Puschar W. Identification of pathological conditions in human skeletal remains. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, Washington, DC 1981; 28
  • Katz SH, Hediger ML, Valleroy LA. Traditional maize processing techniques in the New World. Science 1974; 184: 765–73
  • Teufel NI. Ethnographic field notes collected with Black Seminoles of Coahuila. Mexico 1992–1994
  • Watts ES, Johnston FE, Lasker GW. Biosocial interrelations in population adaptation. Mouton Publishers, Paris 1975
  • Zaino EC. Symmetrical osteoporosis, a sign of severe anemia in the prehistoric Pueblo Indians of the Southwest. Technical Series No. 7, Miscellaneous Papers in Paleopathology. I, WD Wade. Northern Arizona Society of Science and Art, Flagstaff, AZ 1967; 40–60
  • Cohen MN, Armelagos G. Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture. Academic Press, New York 1984
  • Pettitt DJ, Moll PP, Knowler WC. Insulinemia in children at low and high risk of NTDDM. Iabetes Care 1993; 16: 608–15
  • Saad MF, Knowler WC, Pettit DJ. A two-step model for development of non-insulin-dependent diabetes. Am J Med 1991; 90: 229–35

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.