@article {9827,
	title = {Subadult Mortality and Skeletal Indicators of Health in Late Woodland Ontario Iroquois},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie},
	volume = {14},
	year = {1990},
	pages = {061-074},
	abstract = {<p>It has been demonstrated that there is an association between low cross-sectional cortical bone volumes, growth retardation and health stress in subadult skeletal samples of past populations. In addition, previous research has detected significantly low percent cortical areas in several subadult age categories, particularly two to four year olds. An examination of children\&$\#$39;s bones from two southern Ontario Late Woodland ossuaries identified a lack of infants under six months, which reflects interment bias, and high proportions of two to three year olds, an observation which is supported by ethnohistoric accounts of feeding practices. The two to three year old groups have significantly lower percent cortical areas compared to the rest of the children. It is still not clear whether this abundance of stressed weanlings reflects nutritionally compromised populations.</p>},
	author = {Shelley R. Saunders and F. Jerome Melbye}
}
