Published: 2024-08-30
Research Articles
Misfortunes of a Miner
Provision of Care on the Nineteenth-Century Otago Goldfields
Abstract
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...
Funerary Veneration of Violated People in the Context of Costly Signaling
AbstractDuring the Middle and Late Archaic periods in Indiana, occasional violent interactions led to people being killed and their heads and/or...
The Biomechanics of a Physically Impaired Individual from Early Medieval Ranelagh, Ireland
AbstractThis research describes the methods used to re-create the biomechanics of a physically impaired middle-aged male, SK67, dated 893–1023 C.E.,...
Ancient Burials at Upward Sun River, Central Alaska
AbstractIn 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...
Bones at Home
Supporting Haptic Learning and Universal Design beyond the Biological Anthropology Laboratory
Abstract
Remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic led to a range of pedagogical challenges for anthropology laboratory courses. In biological...
Mortuary Practices and the Importance of Rock-Shelters during the Early and Middle Holocene in the Southern Maya Mountains
AbstractResearch at two rock-shelters in the Maya Mountains of southern Belize, Mayahak Cab Pek and Saki Tzul, documents their persistent use as...