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The Bioarchaeology of Colonialism

open access: yes, 2017
Stojanowski assumes the monumental responsibility of integrating the chapters with the themes of Colonized Bodies, Worlds Transformed and proposing some visions and prospects for a postcolonial bioarchaeology and for bioarchaeologists in general. He calls on practitioners to engage with bigger questions and a larger theoretical framework, a bold and ...
Christopher M. Stojanowski
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Is bioarchaeology a handmaiden to history? Developing a historical bioarchaeology

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2007
Abstract Bioarchaeologists researching historic period populations recognize that textual sources provide abundant information on ancient political, social, and economic contexts of the individuals they are investigating. These researchers however often treat these documents and inscriptions as truthful, legitimate historical narratives simply used ...
exaly   +2 more sources

Biomechanics in Bioarchaeology

open access: yesAnnual Review of Anthropology
Biomechanical investigations in bioarchaeology have yielded key details about the physical behaviors undertaken by past populations. Interpretations rely on connecting morphology to loading patterns often based on observations in living participants.
Michelle E. Cameron
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Theorizing Bioarchaeology

open access: yes, 2021
Bioarchaeology has relied on Darwinian perspectives and biocultural models to communicate information about the lives of past peoples. This book demonstrates how further theoretical expansion—a thoughtful engagement with critical social theorizing—can ...
Geller, Pamela L   +1 more
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The Bioarchaeology of Childhood

2018
Over the past two decades, there has been a rapid increase of research in the study of children and childhood in the past from anthropological, archaeological, and bioarchaeological perspectives. Despite recent research and theoretical developments, the advancement of research into childhood in the past continues to be somewhat hampered by the ...
RAELENE M. INGLIS, SIÂN E. HALCROW
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The ethics of excavating: bioarchaeology and the case for rehabilitating legacy human skeletal collections in the Near East

Levant, 2023
Excavation is considered by many to be an inextricable part of bioarchaeology, generating assemblages of human skeletons that bioarchaeologists rely on to reconstruct the past. However, in the Near East and beyond, little reflexivity has been given as to
Lesley A. Gregoricka
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Helping to shine light on the Dark Ages: Applying the bioarchaeology of care approach to remains from the early Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Worthy Park.

International Journal of Paleopathology, 2023
OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that a bioarchaeological focus on health-related care provision can contribute to the currently limited understanding of social practice in Early Anglo-Saxon England (mid5th-early7th centuries AD).
L. Tilley, Christine M. Cave
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