Published: 2018-08-29
Research Articles
Growing Up at Villamagna
Sex, Gender, and Stress During Growth and Development in a Medieval Italian Community
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AbstractThis study examines the interplay between sex, gender, and child-rearing using multiple markers of skeletal growth
and health in the...
Living with Chronic Impairment
Tracing Care Using Changes in the Skeleton
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AbstractImpairment to the skeleton provides tangible traces that bioarchaeologists can study to understand disease and disability in the past. However,...
Eating Inka
Diet at Patallaqta, Peru
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AbstractThe Inka Empire (1400–1532 A.D.) has been intensively studied by ethnohistorians and archaeologists, but there is comparatively little published...
Structural Violence and Physical Death at Tlatelolco
Selecting the Chronically Malnourished for Sacrifice at a Late Postclassic Mesoamerican City (1300–1521 CE)
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AbstractHuman sacrifice in Mesoamerican cities was diverse and highly ritualized, and it remains incompletely understood. Knowing who was selected for...
Brief Reports
A Test of Dental Ablation Scoring Criteria
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AbstractIntentionally modified teeth provide a durable record of past identities, but their identification in archaeological samples has been...
Emerging Adolescence in Bioarchaeology: Current Status and Potential Development
Is Adulthood Required? Examining the Accuracy of Pelvic Sex Estimation Throughout Pubertal Growth
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AbstractReliable morphological sex estimation in non-adult skeletons continues to be problematic in juvenile osteology. Methodological exploration has...
A Bioarchaeological Exploration of Adolescent Males at the Eighteenth-Century Fortress of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada
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AbstractUsing skeletal remains from the eighteenth-century Fortress of Louisbourg, this study aimed to explore whether the adolescent (< 25 years)...
Eating Like Adults
An Investigation of Dietary Change in Childhood and Adolescence at Portus Romae (Italy, 1st–4th Centuries C.E.)
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AbstractPrevious isotopic studies of Roman diet for individuals buried at Isola Sacra (first–fourth centuries C.E.; Italy) have focused on variation in...
Pubertal Timing as a Measure of Health and Well-Being and a Bridge Between Past and Present
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AbstractBioarchaeology is inherently interdisciplinary, but there is room to expand collaboration and dialogue with scholars in other fields,...
Youth Mobility, Migration, and Health Before and After the Black Death
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AbstractMigration is driven by the young but despite this, few isotope studies focus on adolescent migrants or the intricate
nature of their...