Published: 2024-08-30

Reconstructing Multiple Injuries through Osteobiography

A Case Study from Italy

Ileana Micarelli
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This investigation aims to underscore the value of an osteobiographical approach that focuses on understanding the interactions between status,...

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Making Space for Disability Expertise in Bioarchaeology

Revisiting the Case of the Shanidar 1 Neanderthal

Katherine M. Kinkopf
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Among disabled anthropologists, Shanidar 1 is frequently evoked as a disabled ancestor—part of an expansive community of past people who were...

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Osteobiographical Study of Tomás Carrasquilla

Timisay Monsalve, Jose Luis Pais-Brito, Jane Buikstra
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In this article, we evaluate the skeleton of the Colombian author Tomás Carrasquilla for signs of pathologies and physical traumas to better...

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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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Foreigner(?) in a Foreign Land

Multimethod Exploration of the First Decorative Dental Inlay Identified in a Pre-Hispanic Peruvian Context

Celeste Marie Gagnon, Bethany L. Turner, Branden Cesare Rizzuto, Scott E. Burnett
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This work documents the first unambiguous case of a pre-Hispanic Peruvian with dental inlays—an adult bearing two labially drilled maxillary...

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Detailed Recovery Methods Show the Complexity of Ancient Mortuary Practices in Later Stone Age Hunter-Gatherers of Southern-Central Africa

Jessica Cerezo-Román, Elizabeth A. Sawchuk, Alex Bertacchi, Annalys Hanson, Megan Walsh, E. Grace Veatch, Potiphar Kaliba, Jessica C. Thompson
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This article examines mortuary practices by terminal Pleistocene and Holocene hunter-gatherers from Malawi and eastern Zambia in...

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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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A Case of Severe Antemortem Trauma on an Adult Individual from the Hellenistic Period at Kaman-Kalehöyük

Cheryl P. Anderson, Sachihiro Omura
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The goal of the project is to investigate and interpret the extensive antemortem trauma observed on an adult (50+ years) male individual from...

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