Published: 2019-08-13
Introduction
Osteobiography: A Platform for Bioarchaeology Research
1–15
AbstractOsteobiography provides a rich basis for understanding the past, but its conceptual framework has not been outlined systematically. It stands in...
Research Articles
Osteobiography: The History of the Body as Real Bottom-Line History
16–31
AbstractWhat is osteobiography good for? The last generation of archaeologists fought to overcome the traditional assumption that archaeology is merely...
Osteobiographies: Local Biologies, Embedded Bodies, and Relational Persons
32–43
AbstractIn this contribution I explore what osteobiographies represent by investigating them through the lens of local biologies, embedded bodies, and...
Osteobiography as Microhistory: Writing from the Bones Up
44–57
AbstractOsteobiography has much potential to address how bodies both emerge from, and contribute to, historical process. Necessarily multiscalar, if not...
Beyond Individual Lives: Using Comparative Osteobiography to Trace Social Patterns in Classical Italy
58–77
AbstractOsteobiographical studies have usually focused upon investigating an individual’s life experience. However, we can also understand variation in...
Increasing Empathy and Reducing Prejudice: An Argument for Fictive Osteobiographical Narrative
78–87
AbstractOsteobiography is a research method that offers many benefits to bioarchaeologists, both conceptual (e.g., disclosing the contingency of the...
The Bioethos of Osteobiography
88–101
AbstractClyde Snow’s osteobiographic approach, with its focus on the individual and acknowledgment of speculation’s part in analyses, provides a...