Published: 2024-08-30

Misfortunes of a Miner

Provision of Care on the Nineteenth-Century Otago Goldfields

Anne Marie E. Sohler-Snoddy, Peter Petchey, Lucy Kavale-Henderson, Hallie Buckley, Justyna Miszkiewicz, Charlotte King
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Payable gold was discovered in New Zealand’s South Island in 1861, bringing tens of thousands of people to the Otago Province. Most were men...

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Funerary Veneration of Violated People in the Context of Costly Signaling

Christopher W. Schmidt
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During the Middle and Late Archaic periods in Indiana, occasional violent interactions led to people being killed and their heads and/or...

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The Biomechanics of a Physically Impaired Individual from Early Medieval Ranelagh, Ireland

Jessica White, Eileen Murphy, Alex Lennon
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This research describes the methods used to re-create the biomechanics of a physically impaired middle-aged male, SK67, dated 893–1023 C.E.,...

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Ancient Burials at Upward Sun River, Central Alaska

Ben A. Potter, Joel D. Irish, Joshua D. Reuther
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In the late summer about 11,500 years ago, probably in the space of a few weeks, three young Paleoindian children died and were buried in a...

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Bones at Home

Supporting Haptic Learning and Universal Design beyond the Biological Anthropology Laboratory

Rebecca J. Gilmour, Julia A. Gamble
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Remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic led to a range of pedagogical challenges for anthropology laboratory courses. In biological...

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Mortuary Practices and the Importance of Rock-Shelters during the Early and Middle Holocene in the Southern Maya Mountains

Emily Moes, Lexi O'Donnell, Nadia C. Neff, Jessica I. Cerezo-Román, Willa R. Trask, Douglas J. Kennett, Keith M. Prufer
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Research at two rock-shelters in the Maya Mountains of southern Belize, Mayahak Cab Pek and Saki Tzul, documents their persistent use as...

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