Published: 2024-08-30
Research Articles
Reconstructing Multiple Injuries through Osteobiography
A Case Study from Italy
Abstract
This investigation aims to underscore the value of an osteobiographical approach that focuses on understanding the interactions between status,...
Making Space for Disability Expertise in Bioarchaeology
Revisiting the Case of the Shanidar 1 Neanderthal
Abstract
Among disabled anthropologists, Shanidar 1 is frequently evoked as a disabled ancestor—part of an expansive community of past people who were...
Osteobiographical Study of Tomás Carrasquilla
AbstractIn this article, we evaluate the skeleton of the Colombian author Tomás Carrasquilla for signs of pathologies and physical traumas to better...
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...
Foreigner(?) in a Foreign Land
Multimethod Exploration of the First Decorative Dental Inlay Identified in a Pre-Hispanic Peruvian Context
Abstract
This work documents the first unambiguous case of a pre-Hispanic Peruvian with dental inlays—an adult bearing two labially drilled maxillary...
Detailed Recovery Methods Show the Complexity of Ancient Mortuary Practices in Later Stone Age Hunter-Gatherers of Southern-Central Africa
AbstractThis article examines mortuary practices by terminal Pleistocene and Holocene hunter-gatherers from Malawi and eastern Zambia in...
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...
A Case of Severe Antemortem Trauma on an Adult Individual from the Hellenistic Period at Kaman-Kalehöyük
AbstractThe goal of the project is to investigate and interpret the extensive antemortem trauma observed on an adult (50+ years) male individual from...