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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Osteobiographies"”.
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Forgotten heroes: design and production of a public engagement and display strategy for a historic skeletal collection.
… selecting fifteen out of the sample to construct osteobiographies on the chosen individuals. The chosen individual’s range in age, ancestry, and stature, and some have pathological conditions or traumatic injuries, which was the basis for selecting these individuals. The osteobiographies include …
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Crossroads of Conversion: Intersections of Bodies, Materials, and Histories in Early Medieval Bohemia
… 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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An Analysis of Wall Vault Burials From Cypress Grove Cemetery, New Orleans
… The purpose of this thesis was to present osteobiographies from the remains and mortuary artifacts recovered from two late 19<sup>th</sup> century wall vault that were being taken down due to their crumbling condition. Through this, further information on the lives of those living at the …
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A BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE COURTNEY-ANDERSON CEMETERY
… The purpose of this thesis is to present three osteobiographies created from human remains and material culture recovered from three graves excavated from within the cemetery in 2022 to explore the lifeways of rural Piney Woods families of Mississippi at the turn-of-the-century.</p> <p>Among the …
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Inside the Walls of the Asylum: Exploring the Lives of Individuals in the Mississippi State Asylum (1855-1935)
… and tell a portion of their life story through osteobiographies.</p> <p>The sample, dating to 1855-1899, included five males and two females, with an average age range of 28.5-33.5 for males and 35-40 for females. Most appear to have been African American. Caries were the most common dental …
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AN OSTEOBIOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF THE FOSCUE PLANTATION BURIAL VAULT, POLLOCKSVILLE, JONES COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
… into rural antebellum diets. The detailed osteobiographies presented in this study, along with the historical documents, provide a renewed picture of a cross-section of a rural plantation-owning family in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century eastern North Carolina.
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A Study in Scarlet: A Bioarchaeological Investigation of the Differential Use of Ochre in Burial Practices at Khok Phanom Di, Central Thailand
… and whether these developments coincide with osteobiographies, environmental shift, or material culture. The methods used included bone surface mapping and statistical analysis to identify patterns of pigment use in association with differential burial practices, mobility, palaeopathology, and …
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A multidisciplinary approach to reconstruct the lived-experience of people with ‘leprosy’ and Hansen’s Disease in medieval England
… proxies of health and social status/treatment. Osteobiographies (n=559), palaeopathological descriptions (n=554), δ13C and δ15N isotope data of early (n=56) and late life (n=56), aDNA confirmation of M. leprae infection (n=25) and radiocarbon data (n=15) were collected from nineteen English …
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Finding balance in unequal relations: the burial of humans and animals in the Viking Age world
… animals. This is done through building animal osteobiographies when possible, and integrating contextual information into the analysis, spanning not only the buried humans, grave goods, and the grave itself, but also data from other archaeological contexts and external sources like written …