Published: 2019-08-13

Osteobiography: A Platform for Bioarchaeology Research

Lauren Hosek, John Robb

1–15

Abstract

Osteobiography provides a rich basis for understanding the past, but its conceptual framework has not been outlined systematically. It stands in...

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Osteobiography: The History of the Body as Real Bottom-Line History

John Robb, Sarah A. Inskip, Craig Cessford, Jenna Dittmar, Toomas Kivisild, Piers D. Mitchell, Bram Mulder, Tamsin C. O'Connell, Mary E. Price, Alice Rose, Christina Scheib

16–31

Abstract

What is osteobiography good for? The last generation of archaeologists fought to overcome the traditional assumption that archaeology is merely...

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Osteobiographies: Local Biologies, Embedded Bodies, and Relational Persons

Jo Appleby

32–43

Abstract

In this contribution I explore what osteobiographies represent by investigating them through the lens of local biologies, embedded bodies, and...

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Osteobiography as Microhistory: Writing from the Bones Up

Lauren Hosek

44–57

Abstract

Osteobiography has much potential to address how bodies both emerge from, and contribute to, historical process. Necessarily multiscalar, if not...

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Beyond Individual Lives: Using Comparative Osteobiography to Trace Social Patterns in Classical Italy

John Robb

58–77

Abstract

Osteobiographical studies have usually focused upon investigating an individual’s life experience. However, we can also understand variation in...

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Increasing Empathy and Reducing Prejudice: An Argument for Fictive Osteobiographical Narrative

Alexis T. Boutin, Matthew Paolucci Callahan

78–87

Abstract

Osteobiography is a research method that offers many benefits to bioarchaeologists, both conceptual (e.g., disclosing the contingency of the...

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The Bioethos of Osteobiography

Pamela L. Geller

88–101

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Clyde Snow’s osteobiographic approach, with its focus on the individual and acknowledgment of speculation’s part in analyses, provides a...

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