Published: 2023-06-14

Emerging Adolescence

Current Status and Potential Advances in Bioarchaeology

L. Creighton Avery, Mary Lewis

103–110

Abstract

Adolescence is marked by a wide range of biological, social, and neurological changes. Adolescents are stereotypically viewed as reckless,...

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Youth Mobility, Migration, and Health Before and After the Black Death

Mary Lewis, Janet Montgomery

111–129

Abstract

Migration is driven by the young but despite this, few isotope studies focus on adolescent migrants or the intricate nature of their movement....

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Eating Like Adults

An Investigation of Dietary Change in Childhood and Adolescence at Portus Romae (Italy, 1st–4th Centuries C.E.)

L. Creighton Avery, Megan B. Brickley, Sheri Findlay, Luca Bondioli, Alessandra Sperduti, Tracy Prowse

130–145

Abstract

Previous isotopic studies of Roman diet for individuals buried at Isola Sacra (first–fourth centuries C.E.; Italy) have focused on variation in...

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A Bioarchaeological Exploration of Adolescent Males at the Eighteenth-Century Fortress of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada

Amy B. Scott, Sarah MacInnes, Nicole Hughes, T. Jessica A. Munkittrick, Alison J. T. Harris, Vaughan Grimes

146–172

Abstract

Using skeletal remains from the eighteenth-century Fortress of Louisbourg, this study aimed to explore whether the adolescent (< 25 years)...

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Is Adulthood Required? Examining the Accuracy of Pelvic Sex Estimation Throughout Pubertal Growth

Jose Sanchez, Robert D. Hoppa

173–188

Abstract

Reliable morphological sex estimation in non-adult skeletons continues to be problematic in juvenile osteology. Methodological exploration has...

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Pubertal Timing as a Measure of Health and Well-Being and a Bridge Between Past and Present

Allison C. Ham, Sharon N. DeWitte

189–209

Abstract

Bioarchaeology is inherently interdisciplinary, but there is room to expand collaboration and dialogue with scholars in other fields,...

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