Bioarchaeology/Skeletal Analysis (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "Human Remains in the Marketplace and Beyond: Myths and Realities of Monitoring, Grappling With, and Anthropologizing the Illicit Trade in a Post-Harvard World" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Commerce and trade in human remains involves a panoply of thorny ethical questions surrounding rights of the dead and the authority of the living to speak for them. Trafficking of human remains may be defined as unauthorized,...
The Histria Multiscalar Archaeological Project (2018–2022): Multidisciplinary Research and Consilience at the Mouth of the Danube (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper reports on the results of the first four seasons of excavation of the Histria Multiscalar Archaeological Project (HMAP) at the Greek and Roman site of Histria, on the Black Sea coast of Romanian Dobrogea south of the Danube delta. Histria was one of the earliest Greek colonies on the Black Sea coast and played a fundamental role in cultural...
Home is Where Your Boat Is: Movements within and around the Titicaca Basin (800 BC–AD 200) (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Beyond Borders at the End of a Millennium: Life in the Western Andes circa 500–50 BCE" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Titicaca Basin has long been home to communities of people who navigated their highland landscape effectively. Much research has been devoted to early developments in the southern lake basin (in modern-day Bolivia) as well as later communities on the northwestern side of the lake (in modern-day...
Horizontality Revisited: Evidence for 3,000 Years of Prehistoric Biocultural Continuity of Fisherfolk at Huanchaco, North Coast of Peru (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The importance and distinctiveness of Peruvian fisherfolk, or pescadores, and their complementary role in coastal valley economies feature prominently in numerous ethnohistoric accounts, while archaeological evidence indicates that large, permanent fishing communities existed for centuries before. What is unclear is the degree to which, if any, these...
Household Production of Obsidian Artifacts and Everyday Practices at Los Guachimontones, Mexico (2025)
This is an abstract from the "From the Underworld to the Heavens: Expanding the Study of Central Jalisco’s Past" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this presentation, I analyze the production and consumption of obsidian artifacts among groups of varying social statuses at Guachimontones, Jalisco, Mexico, from 350 BCE to 450 CE. I then discuss what these practices reveal about power negotiations and resource control in the region. My study is based...
How the Skeletal Remains of Romanian Reflect the Culture and Daily Life of the Medieval Period (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Medieval Romania’s history is riddled with gaps caused by destructive invasions against the Ottoman Empire, among others. With a fractured and understudied history, bioarchaeology emerges as a potent tool to unveil the concealed facets of this era, ranging from dietary habits and religious inclinations to vocational pursuits, physical traumas, and burial...
Howdy Neighbour – Transgressing Borders and Peering over the Fence to Examine the Application of Isotopic Analyses to Bioarchaeology in Anatolia (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The South Caucasus Region: Crossroads of Societies & Polities. An Assessment of Research Perspectives in Post-Soviet Times" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stable isotope analyses contributing to archaeological research in Anatolia was a relatively late bloomer, beginning in the early 2000s and only gathering pace in the last 5-10 years. Currently research into dietary habits, subsistence practices, and mobility has...
Hoxie Farm: Bioarchaeology of a Late Prehistoric Community in Northeastern Illinois (2018)
The Upper Mississippian (A.D. 1400-1500) Hoxie Farm site is one of the best documented late prehistoric sites in Cook County, Illinois. In 1953, Elaine Bluhm and David Wenner from the Field Museum of Natural History organized a volunteer crew of professional and avocational archaeologists to salvage portions of the site in advance of construction of the first interstate highway (I-80) in Illinois. In 2000-2003, the Illinois State Archaeological Survey (ISAS) conducted additional excavations at...
<html>Developing a Quality Control Protocol for Assessing Diagenesis Using δ<sup>18</sup>O in Carbonates and Phosphates from Human Bone and Tooth Hydroxyapatite</html> (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Stable oxygen isotope (δ<sup>18</sup>O) analysis of the carbonate fraction in human tooth and bone hydroxyapatite is well-established in archaeology. Researchers use δ<sup>18</sup>O values in human bone and tooth bioapatite to reconstruct migration, climate, and water sources. Bioavailable stable oxygen isotopes of carbonates and phosphates...
<html>Human Bones in the Maya Tool Box at Ucanal, Petén, Guatemala: Isotope Analyses and <i>Chaîne Opératoire</i></html> (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The excavations carried out in 2018 and 2019 at Ucanal, a site located in the Maya Lowlands of Guatemala, unearthed the remains of a bone tool workshop dating to the Late Classic period (AD 600-900). It was primarily composed of production waste in which a large proportion of the worked bones were human (up to 40 %). Human bones, along with the...
<html>Landscapes of Death or Deaths for the Landscape? <i>Huaca</i> capture, spectacular violence, sacrifice, and consubstantiation at the Huaca de la Luna, Pyramids at Moche Polity (AD 400 – 850) of the North Coast of Perú</html> (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Landscapes of Death: Placemaking and Postmortem Agencies" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Political landscapes are often the focus of polity-sponsored feasts and performative rituals that reinforce power and subjugation. For the Pyramids at Moche (AD 400 – 850) on the north coast of Perú, previously reported bodies interred within the Huaca de la Luna were those of elite, nonlocal male warriors. In accordance with the...
<html>Stable isotope examination (δ<sup>18</sup>O, δ<sup>13</sup>C) of human remains from the Monastery of Santa María de Zamartze (Uharte-Arakil Municipality, Navarre)</html> (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Basque Archaeology: Current Research and Future Directions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> A subset of human remains (n=155) recovered during the 2011 to 2015 excavations from the Monastery of Santa María de Zamartze burial grounds were analyzed for stable oxygen and carbon isotopes derived from bone and tooth carbonate. Provided this site’s close geographic association with a...
Human Adaptability to Fauna and Flora Changes during MIS 5-3. Is the Iberian Mediterranean Region a Refuge? (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Peninsular Southern Europe Refugia during the Middle Paleolithic" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Neanderthal and AMH from the Early Upper Palaeolithic have a really good knowledge of their environment and its potential resources. The local landscape and its changes should influence their behavior and the availability of resources. In this sense, the faunal remains have been better documented than flora. But our team...
Human Biogeography, Life Histories and Bioavailable Strontium in the Southern Andes (Argentina and Chile) (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Patagonian Evolutionary Archaeology and Human Paleoecology: Commending the Legacy (Still in the Making) of Luis Alberto Borrero in the Interpretation of Hunter-Gatherer Studies of the Southern Cone" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While regionally focused in Patagonia, Luis Borrero’s research has contributed to shape archaeological practice beyond this region, encompassing South America at large. As a regional case...
The Human Cost of Violence: Exploring Disability and Debility in the Pre-Hispanic American Southwest (2025)
This is an abstract from the "(De)Pathologizing the Past: New Perspectives on Intervention and Modification as Care in the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Injury recidivism (increased risk of injury following an initial insult) has been identified as a key factor in determining raid captives within communities when examining violence in the northern American Southwest (Martin 2010; Martin et al. 2008). For the La Plata Valley of New...
Human Demography and Ecosystems: Comparative Approach of Human Age-at-Death Profiles from Northpatagonia (Southern Mendoza, Argentina) (2018)
The aim of this presentation is to provide information about human age-at-death profiles in order to understand the environmental/demographic dynamics of pre-Hispanic people from Southern Mendoza. Burials from 20 archaeological sites are included in age-at-death profiles, which are compared to discern regional particularities. This is a transitional area between hunter-gatherers groups and farming populations. The presentation evaluates if the introduction of domesticated resources in the diet...
Human Sacrifice and Body Processing in Late Eastern Mesoamerica: New Evidence from Toniná, Lagartero, and Champotón (2021)
This is an abstract from the "New Perspectives on Ritual Violence and Related Human Body Treatments in Ancient Mesoamerica" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A number of non-reverential, highly processed human assemblages containing mutilated sternal bones have been documented in different parts of Postclassic period Mesoamerica and beyond after being described by Carmen Pijoan in a massive ritual deposit from Tlatelolco, in the Aztec capital. In...
Human vertebrae-on-posts: mortuary politics and persistence in colonial southern Peru (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Landscapes of Death: Placemaking and Postmortem Agencies" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. What does the development of ritualized behaviors say about how Indigenous peoples endured political turmoil? This study examines how local communities in the Chincha Valley of southern Peru confronted European colonialism through mortuary practice. After dominating the Chincha Valley of southern Peru in the Late Intermediate...
Human vs. Nonhuman Bone: A Nondestructive Histological Instrument (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Current Zooarchaeology: New and Ongoing Approaches" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Species identification is one of the first steps in the analysis of bone fragments in archaeological and bioarchaeological contexts. Current methods for taxa identification include morphoscopic, histological, and DNA analyses in order to assess what is present in an assemblage for zooarchaeological research, forensic significance, and...
Humans Remain: Bioarchaeology and Community at the Historic First Baptist Church of Williamsburg (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Individuals Known and Unknown: Case Studies from Two Burial Contexts at Colonial Williamsburg" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We present the results of osteological analysis of human remains excavated at the original site of the historic First Baptist Church of Williamsburg, Virginia. The goals and parameters of our analysis were defined through a process of public engagement evolved from the ethical framework of the...
Hunter-Gatherer Violence in the Middle Holocene Baikal Region: A Probable Massacre at Shamanka II (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Northeast Asian Prehistoric Hunter-Gather Lifeways: Multidisciplinary, Individual Life History Approach" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Violence was uncommon among the Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers of Siberia’s Baikal region (<5%), and lethal violence even less so (~1%). At the site of Shamanka II, however, 11 (or 85%) of 13 interred Early Bronze Age (EBA; 4970⎼3470 cal. BP) individuals exhibit evidence of...
Hydrogen Isotopes in Archaeological Bone Collagen: Potential Combined Influence of Meteoric Water and Protein Intake (2018)
Hydrogen isotopes in archaeological bone collagen (i.e. δ2H-collagen) are poorly understood, but can potentially facilitate new understanding of the complex relationship between trophic level (i.e. animal protein consumption) and meteoric water controls on hydrogen isotopes in omnivorous humans. These concurrent influences on human δ2H-collagen values were examined in 11 North American archaeological sites. The δ2H-collagen values were compared to bone hydroxyapatite oxygen isotopes (i.e....
Identification of Bilateral Congenital Radioulnar Synostosis in an Early Horizon Burial from the Site of Atalla, Peru (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bioarchaeological research can help trace the development and distribution of rare pathologies across space and time, aiding in our understanding of how past peoples experienced and made sense of a variety of conditions and diseases. Congenital radioulnar synostosis (CRUS), a developmental condition resulting in fusion of the proximal radius and ulna, is one...
Identifying Genogeographic Affiliation of Burials from an 18th Century Cemetery on Sint Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Exploring Globalization and Colonialism through Archaeology and Bioarchaeology: An NSF REU Sponsored Site on the Caribbean’s Golden Rock (Sint Eustatius)" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the 18th century, Sint Eustatius (Statia) was the home to colonial Europeans, including Dutch, British and French, as well as enslaved and freed individuals of African descent. This research explores the genogeographic...
Identifying Patterned Variability in Preclassic-Postclassic Maya Mortuary Practices in the Belize River Valley (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Classic period (AD 300-900) Belize River Valley was a complex political landscape of numerous semi-autonomous Maya polities. Many began their emergence at the end of the Early Preclassic period (1200-900 BC), consolidated their political power in the Late Preclassic, and subsequently underwent collapse in the Terminal Classic period (AD 750-900/1000). The...