| Age-at-death-estimation in pathological individuals. A complementary approach using teeth cementum annulations |
2016 |
150 |
Bioarchaeologists rely on accurate estimations of age-at-death. Clearly, some pathological conditions are associated with gross morphological changes in the skeleton that could impact the effectiveness of age-at-death estimation (i.e. methods based o... |
| Ancient skeletal evidence for Leprosy in India (2000 B.C.) |
2009 |
857 |
Background: Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae that affects almost 250,000 people worldwide. The timing of first infection, geographic origin, and pattern of transmission of the disease are still under investigatio... |
| Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use |
2019 |
142 |
Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, but the extent, trajectory, and implications of these early changes are not well understood. An empirical global assessment of land use from 10,000 years ... |
| Begotten of Corruption? Bioarchaeology and “othering” of leprosy in South Asia |
2016 |
957 |
Leprosy is strongly stigmatized in South Asia, being regarded as a manifestation of extreme levels of spiritual pollution going back through one or more incarnations of the self. Stigma has significant social consequences, including surveillance, exc... |
| A bioarchaeology of climate and environmental change |
2020 |
851 |
Climate change is already having an impact on global public health, human security (including food and water security), and migration flows (IPCC, 2014). Governments and non-governmental organizations are considering potential future impacts and crea... |
| Birth is but our death begun: A bioarchaeological assessment of skeletal emaciation in immature human skeletons in the context of environmental, social, and subsistence transition |
2014 |
1433 |
The second millennium BC was a period of significant social and environmental changes in prehistoric India. After the disintegration of the Indus civilization, in a phase known as the Early Jorwe (1400–1000 BC), hundreds of agrarian villages flourish... |
| Changing the climate: Bioarchaeology responds to deterministic thinking about human–environmental interactions in the past |
2018 |
1054 |
As members of the global public become increasingly concerned about climate change, popular presses promote “scientific” narratives about the success or failure of past societies (e.g., Diamond, Collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed. New ... |
| Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater: estimating fertility from subadult skeletons |
2011 |
940 |
Recent research interest has focused on the bioarchaeology of children. Although paleodemography is essential for accurate reconstructions of lifestyle and health in past populations, currently there is no published technique for estimating fertility... |
| Estimating body mass in subadult human skeletons |
2010 |
1340 |
Methods for estimating body mass from the human skeleton are often required for research in biological or forensic anthropology. There are currently only two methods for estimating body mass in subadults: the width of the distal femur metaphysis is u... |
| Infection, disease, and biosocial process at the end of the Indus civilization |
2013 |
202 |
In the third millennium B.C., the Indus Civilization flourished in northwest India and Pakistan. The late mature phase (2200-1900 B.C.) was characterized by long-distance exchange networks, planned urban settlements, sanitation facilities, standardiz... |
| Men, women, and children are starving: Archaeology of the Donner family camp |
2010 |
530 |
In spring of 1846, the George and Jacob Donner families and some 80 traveling companions began their overland trek to California. When the party ascended the Sierra Nevada in late October, a snowstorm forced the group to bivouac. At this point, the t... |
| On engagement with Anthropology: A critical evaluation of skeletal and developmental abnormalities in the Atacama preterm baby and issues of forensic and bioarchaeological research ethics. Response to Bhattacharya et al. “Whole-genome sequencing of Atacama skeleton shows novel mutations linked with dysplasia” in Genome Research |
2018 |
152 |
Here we evaluate Bhattacharya et al.’s (2018) recent paper “Whole-genome sequencing of Atacama skeleton shows novel mutations linked with dysplasia” published in Genome Research. In this short report, we examine the hypothesis that the so-called “Ata... |
| Panel regression formulas for stature and body mass estimation in immature human skeletons |
2013 |
202 |
Anthropologists require methods for accurately estimating stature and body mass from the human skeleton. Age-structured, generalized Least Squares (LS) regression formulas have been developed to predict stature from femoral length and to predict body... |
| A peaceful realm? Trauma and social differentiation at Harappa |
2012 |
5397 |
Thousands of settlements stippled the third millennium B.C. landscape of Pakistan and northwest India. These communities maintained an extensive exchange network that spanned West and South Asia. They shared remarkably consistent symbolic and ideolog... |
| Ritual, urbanism, and the everyday: Mortuary behavior in the Indus civilization |
2020 |
1046 |
Human skeletal material from archaeological sites is the most important source of evidence about embodied experience, habitual behaviors, and aspects of health in past people. Within bioarchaeology’s broad area of inquiry, analysis of mortuary behavi... |
| Touching the surface: Biological, behavioural, and emotional aspects of plagiocephaly at Harappa |
2019 |
727 |
In biology, the maternal–fetal interface refers specifically to the hemochorial, immunological, and hormonal relations between mother and offspring in placental mammals. Anthropologists broaden the definition to include sociocultural and behavioral a... |