A detailed study of the bone chemistry of individuals buried at the 14th
century Grasshopper Pueblo site is presented in this volume. A wide
range of elements were measured from these skeletons as indicators of
diet, stress, and nutrition; these elements were related to parameters
of age, sex, social differences, space, time, environmental change, and
possible resource depletion. The major relationships were found to be
with sex, space, and time, with significant changes in male and female
diets over time, but also with patterned spatial differences in burials,
suggesting household differences in access to food. This is a data-rich
study which provides much information for social and economic
reconstructions of prehistoric Pueblo adaptation to their environment.