The Bioarchaeology of Individuals

List of Contributors

Contributors Brenda J. Baker is associate professor of anthropology at the Center for Bioarchaeological Research in Arizona State University’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change. Her research concerns bioarchaeology, paleopathology, subadult osteology, and culture contact in the Nile Valley, Cyprus, and North America. Alexis T. Boutin is assistant professor of anthropology at Sonoma State University. Her research and publications focus on the bioarchaeology of personhood in the ancient Near East, Arabian Gulf, and eastern Mediterranean. Jane E. Buikstra is Regents Professor of Bioarchaeology at Arizona State University. She has conducted research on funerary archaeology, paleodemography, paleopathology , and biodistance in the Americas and portions of the Old World. Jesse Byock is professor of archaeology and medieval Scandinavia in the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and the Scandinavian Section at the University of California , Los Angeles. He is the director of the Mosfell Archaeological Project and has published numerous books and articles on Viking Age Iceland, feud, and the Icelandic Sagas. Della Collins Cook is professor of anthropology at Indiana University, Bloomington . Her research interests center on paleopathology, growth and development, and mortuary practices in ancient peoples of North America, Belize, Brazil, and the Mediterranean. Vincent P. Diego is a staff scientist at the Department of Genetics at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute. His doctorate is in biological anthropology, which was initiated through the mentorship of Gary M. Heathcote when he was at the University of Guam, and he maintains an interest in the anthropology of Pacific Island populations, especially of the Chamorro people. Michele Toomay Douglas is a consultant in bioarchaeology and affiliate graduate faculty at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Her research interests include paleopathology and skeletal biology in archaeological populations from the Pacific and Southeast Asia. 271 Jacqueline T. Eng is assistant professor of anthropology at Western Michigan University . She has conducted bioarchaeological and paleopathological research on archaeological human skeletal remains in China, Mongolia, Nepal, Iceland, Romania , and the United States. Jon M. Erlandson is an archaeologist, professor of anthropology, and executive director of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History at the University of Oregon. He has written or edited 17 books and published over 200 scholarly articles, most of them focused on the deep history of maritime peoples around the world. Pamela L. Geller is visiting assistant professor at the University of Miami, where she teaches in the Department of Anthropology and the Program in Women’s and Gender Studies. Her research interests include anthropological bioarchaeology, feminist archaeology, the materiality of identity, the sociopolitics of archaeology, and the applicability of social theories to investigations of the past. She has conducted fieldwork in Israel, Hawai’i, Belize, Honduras, and Peru. Rex C. Haydon is associate professor of surgery at the University of Chicago with an interest in orthopedic paleopathology. Gary M. Heathcote an adjunct associate professor of anthropology at Ball State University. His research interests and publications include works on geographic patterning and multiple meanings of metric and nonmetric craniofacial variation, paleopathology, and chronic activity markers in archaeological skeletal series from the western Pacific and circumpolar regions, and on the health-related and evolutionary aspects of body composition in living Pacific Islander populations. Per Holck is professor of anatomy at the Institute of Basic Medical Science, University of Oslo, Norway. His specialties are biological anthropology, forensic anthropology , and paleopathology. Hajime Ishida is professor of human biology and anatomy at University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan. He has conducted research on skeletal biology and paleopathology in prehistoric skeletal series from northeastern and western Asia, and research on human genetics of East Asians. Frederika Kaestle is associate professor of anthropology and fellow of the Institute of Molecular Biology at Indiana University, Bloomington. She has conducted research on population movement and contact, mortuary practices, and molecular evolution using ancient and modern DNA techniques on populations from around the world, with a particular focus on the Americas. 272 · Contributors M. Anne Katzenberg is professor of physical anthropology in the Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Her research interests focus on past dietary adaptations and health among prehistoric people from Canada, the United States, and Eurasia. Kelly J. Knudson is associate professor at the Center for Bioarchaeological Research in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. She focuses on bioarchaeological and biogeochemical research in the Andes. Maia M. Langley is a doctoral student at the University of Lisbon in Portugal and...