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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Bioarchaeological analysis"”.
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Bioarchaeological Analysis of Oak View Landing (40Dr1): An Archaic Population in the Kentucky Lake Reservior
… subsistence strategies.</p> <p>A comprehensive bioarchaeological analysis was conducted on the adult individuals (18 males, 16 females, 16 of indeterminate sex) excavated from a multiple occupation site located along the Tennessee River in Decatur County, Tennessee. Skeletal indicators used to …
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Constructing community and cosmos : a bioarchaeological analysis of Wisconsin Effigy Mound mortuary practices and mound construction
ABSTRACTCONSTRUCTING COMMUNITY AND COSMOS: A BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF WISCONSIN EFFIGY MOUND MORTUARY PRACTICES AND MOUND CONSTRUCTIONByWendy Lee Lackey-CornelisonThis dissertation presents an analysis of the mounds, human skeletal remains, grave goods, and ritual paraphernalia interred within …
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Health and Cultural Interaction in the Illinois Country: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Three Historic Native American Populations
… emphasizes the important contributions that bioarchaeological research provides to a more complete understanding of the historical consequences of cultural contact between Europeans and Native American communities.
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War Trophies and Ancestor Veneration, A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Maya Secondary Interments at Formative Cuello and K'axob in Northern Belize
… trophies, and 19 were identified as ancestors. Analysis of secondary interments’ skeletal assemblages revealed partibility was practiced at both sites, with the skull, teeth, legs, and arms being most frequently interred, while hands and feet were the least commonly interred. The patterns within …
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HISTORICAL CEMETERY RESIDENTS UNEARTHED: REANALYSIS OF UMFC64 AND UMFC65
… a mystery for 35 years is reexamined using bioarchaeological analysis. Methods for estimating sex, age at death, ancestry, stature, and pathology/trauma methods are applied in an effort to glean more information about the remains. A facial reconstruction is presented with a step-by-step …
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HISTORICAL CEMETERY RESIDENTS UNEARTHED: REANALYSIS OF UMFC64 AND UMFC65
… a mystery for 35 years is reexamined using bioarchaeological analysis. Methods for estimating sex, age at death, ancestry, stature, and pathology/trauma methods are applied in an effort to glean more information about the remains. A facial reconstruction is presented with a step-by-step …
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The bioarchaeology of Early Bronze Age Ireland: health, disease, trauma, and care
… remains recovered from these graves and what analysis has been completed is found almost exclusively in site reports and demographic tables. This study addressed this underuse of a key recourse by undertaking the first integrated bioarchaeological analysis of the entire corpus of curated …
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Microscopic Sampling of Dentine and Bone Collagen: Development of Sampling Methods for Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis
… technology for isotope ratio mass spectrometry analysis improves, the sampling methods should improve as well. This research focused on developing a new incremental dentine collagen sampling method and bone collagen microsampling method for stable isotope analysis. This research aimed to …
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Microscopic Sampling of Dentine and Bone Collagen: Development of Sampling Methods for Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis
… technology for isotope ratio mass spectrometry analysis improves, the sampling methods should improve as well. This research focused on developing a new incremental dentine collagen sampling method and bone collagen microsampling method for stable isotope analysis. This research aimed to …
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A Spatial Analysis of Chachapoya Mortuary Practices at La Petaca, Chachapoyas, Peru
… approaches to facilitate and improve the bioarchaeological study of commingled skeletal remains in an open, disturbed communal funerary context. Research focused on SUP CF-01, a natural cave context utilized as a group burial. The sample of human remains retrieved from SUP CF-01 (n= 8182) …
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A new lease on life: using advanced analytical techniques in bioarchaeology to maximise a new understanding of past populations of Sardinia
… on the island of Sardinia through a thorough analysis of health, funerary behaviour, and culture considering the natural and cultural environment in which people lived. The thesis investigates the lifeways of two sites, one from the Middle Neolithic (4900-4500 BC) and one from the Punic Era …