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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Bioarchaeology"”.
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The long lives of ancestors: decolonizing bioarchaeology in Illinois
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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The bioarchaeology of Early Bronze Age Ireland: health, disease, trauma, and care
… used in this study: population health and the Bioarchaeology of Care. Reassessment of the demographics of the assemblage supported the identification of the Individualised Burial Tradition as a restricted formal burial tradition influenced by both gender and age ideology. However, the …
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Health in the medieval world: Regionality and the bioarchaeology of Ireland and Britain
This study assesses regional health patterns in early medieval Ireland and Britain by analysing and interpreting palaeopathological indicators of stress. This was achieved by incorporating the results of demographic and palaeopathological study into the specific historical contexts. Although …
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The Bioarchaeology of An Sơn and Hòa Diêm: Biosocial Insights into Prehistoric Southern Vietnam
This thesis investigated the lifeways of two prehistoric Vietnamese communities, An Sơn from southern Vietnam and Hòa Diêm from the south central coast of Vietnam, representing two temporally distinct periods. Three themes were employed to assess and situate the health and behaviour of these people …
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The Bioarchaeology of An Sơn and Hòa Diêm: Biosocial Insights into Prehistoric Southern Vietnam
This thesis investigated the lifeways of two prehistoric Vietnamese communities, An Sơn from southern Vietnam and Hòa Diêm from the south central coast of Vietnam, representing two temporally distinct periods. Three themes were employed to assess and situate the health and behaviour of these people …
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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
The prehistory of Sardinia is a complex and dynamic period which goes from the first occupation in the Paleolithic (400000 – 120000 yo) till the early and classical antiquity (900 BC – 456 AC). Essential to understanding both the complexity and dynamicity of Sardinian cultural and biological …
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Crossroads of Conversion: Intersections of Bodies, Materials, and Histories in Early Medieval Bohemia
… and disease experiences. As a microhistorical bioarchaeology, this project is relational and multiscalar with an emphasis on individual osteobiographies that inform how historical processes are experienced and enacted through individual lives.</p>
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From the Mouths of Babes: Using Incremental Enamel Microstructures to Evaluate the Applicability of the Moorrees Method of Dental Formation to the Estimation of Age of Prehistoric Native American Children
… growth. Estimation of age is fundamental to both bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology when documenting unknown skeletons. Specific to bioarchaeology, chronological age is the baseline by which physiological age and delay in physiological growth due to environment-population interaction and …
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Gibeon Revisited: An Integrated Approach to a Bioarchaeological Collection
… that remains highly relevant to the ethics of bioarchaeology and museum practice. The second principal framework lies in the geopolitical context of the excavation at Gibeon and what can a study of the human remains can draw from and contribute to the archaeology of Israel and Palestine. …
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Analyzing the Consistency of Scoring Porotic Hyperostosis From 3D Scans
… is becoming more and more common in the field of bioarchaeology. They alleviate the need to travel, allow for larger sample sizes, and can help preserve bones with pathologies on them which make them more fragile. Though there are major benefits with using 3D scanning of human remains, there is a …
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An Assessment of the use of Photogrammetry in Cranial Metric and Non-Metric Studies
… but have also become more accessible in bioarchaeology. One method, photogrammetry, offers bioarcheologists a unique opportunity to easily collect and process cranial metric and non-metric data that can be used to quantify biological relatedness. While these advances are expected to …
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ACCURACY AND RELIABILITY IN SEX DETERMINATION USING THE OS COXA: A COMPARISON OF METRIC VS. PHENICE METHOD
… of the biological profile in forensics and bioarchaeology. The chances of attaining high levels of accuracy & reliability regarding sex identification are related to the skeletal components analyzed and the ability of techniques utilized to analyze shape and size differences among the sexes. …
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Sacral preauricular extensions and notches and dorsal pubic pitting as indicators of parity
… useful implications for studies of biomechanics, bioarchaeology, and forensics. One limitation of this study is that the skeletal collection was self reported and could have lacked information regarding the number of full-term pregnancies for each individual.
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Identity in the Dark Age. A Biocultural Analysis of Early Medieval Scotland
… and over local beliefs. Many research areas in bioarchaeology have moved away from the more simplistic processual approach after a renewed understanding of the complexities of human existence. However, this newer methodology has not been sufficiently applied to early mediaeval Scottish studies. …
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Skeletal evidence of the social persona. Life, death and society in early medieval Alamannic communities
… anthropology and socio-cultural sciences. A bioarchaeology of identity explores the Alamanni of Pleidelsheim and Neresheim via their funerary and skeletal evidence, allowing for the factor of different environments that influence the interactions of a community. A key theme is the …
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A comparative study of activity-related skeletal changes in 3rd-2nd millennium BC coastal fishers and 1st millenium AD inland agriculturists in Chile, South America
… stress (MOS) that are accepted by many in bioarchaeology as representing the impact of physical activity. To examine their presence, two past populations from northern Chile who practised two contrasting subsistence economies such as marine hunting and gathering with agricultural farmers …
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Disease and De Soto: A Bioarchaeological Approach to the Introduction of Malaria to the Southeast US
… until recently. However, recent advances in bioarchaeology have developed a method to identify and diagnose malaria in skeletal remains. This study investigates the possible introduction of malaria to the Central Mississippi Valley (CMV) and Trans-Mississippi South (TMS) regions by the …
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Conditions of the Oral Cavity in Early Bronze Age Anatolia: Reconstruction of Dietary Behavior, Biological Impact, and Social Structure
… the EBA have followed biocultural approaches in bioarchaeology studies. Moreover, even fewer investigations seek to answer questions with evidence from the oral cavity. This dissertation intends to examine social organization from the EBA site of Karataş-Semayük (Karataş; 2700-2300 BCE) located …
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