Tracing Childhood: Bioarchaeological Investigations of Early Lives in Antiquity

List of Contributors

Contributors Marta P. Alfonso-Durruty is assistant professor of anthropology at Kansas State University. She is the author of “Experimental Assessment of Nutrition and Bone Growth’s Velocity Effects on Harris Lines Formation” in American Journal of Physical Anthropology, “Bassiocciput Age Estimation Assessment in Subadults from Punta Teatinos, Chile” with J. L. Thompson in Anthropologie—International Journal of the Science of Man (forthcoming), and “Análisis Bioantropológico de un Enterratorio Humano del Holoceno Tardio en Cabo Nose, Tierra del Fuego, Chile” [Bioanthropological Analysis of a Late Holocene Burial from Cape Nose, Tierra del Fuego, Chile] with F. Morello and E. Calas in Magallania. Bernardo T. Arriaza is the director of the Instituto de Alta Investigación in Chile. He is the author of Beyond Death: The Chinchorro Mummies of Ancient Chile (Smithsonian Institution Press), Cultura Chinchorro: Las Momias Artificiales Más Antiguas del Mundo with Vivien G. Standen (Universidad de Tarapacá), and Cultura Chinchorro: Las Momias Artificiales Más Antiguas del Mundo (Editorial Universitaria). He is also a co-author of “Characterizing the micromorphology of sediments associated with Chinchorro mummifaction in Arica, Chile using SEM and EDS,” published in Archaeometry. Autumn Barrett is a PhD student of anthropology at the College of William and Mary. She is the author of “Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in Colonial New York: A Bioarchaeological Study of the New York African Burial Ground” with M. Blakey in Social Bioarchaeology. Deborah E. Blom is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Vermont . She is the author of “The Complex Relationship between Tiwanaku Mortuary Identity and Geographic Origin in the South Central Andes” with K. J. Knudson in Bioarchaeology and Identity in the Americas, “Embodying Borders: Human Body Modification and Diversity in Tiwanaku Society” in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, and “Making Place: Humans as Objects of Dedication in Tiwanaku Society” with J. W. Janusek in World Archaeology. 260 · Contributors Della C. Cook is professor of anthropology at Indiana University. She is the author of “The Evolution of American Paleopathology” with M. L. Powell in Bioarchaeology : The Contextual Study of Human Remains; The Myth of Syphilis: The Natural History of Treponematosis in North America with M. L. Powell; and “The ‘African Queen,’ a Portuguese Mystery” (with M. L. Powell, Maia M. Langley, Jennifer Raff, Frederika Kaestle, and Susan D. Spencer) in The Bioarchaeology of Individuals. John J. Crandall is a PhD student in anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of “Evidence of Child Sacrifice at La Cueva de los Muertos Chiquitos (660–1430 AD)” with D. L. Martin and J. L. Thompson in Landscapes of Violence and “The Cave of the Dead Children: Evidence of Child Sacrifice in Ancient North Mexico” (forthcoming). Meredith A. B. Ellis is a PhD student in anthropology at Syracuse University. She has published “The Signature of Starvation: A Comparison of Bone Processing at a Chinese Encampment in Montana and the Donner Party Camp in California” with C. W. Merritt, S. A. Novak, and K. J. Dixon in Historical Archaeology and “The Children of Spring Street: Rickets in an Early Nineteenth-Century Urban Congregation” in Northeast Historical Archaeology. Helen F. Gilmore is a PhD student of anthropology at the University of Otago, New Zealand. “‘A Goodly Heritage’: Queen’s Gardens, Dunedin, 1800–1927: An Urban Landscape Biography” is the title of her MA thesis, and she is working with Dr. Siân Halcrow. Siân E. Halcrow is lecturer in biological anthropology at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She has written “Newborn Twins from Prehistoric Mainland Southeast Asia: Birth, Death and Personhood” with N. Tayles, R. Inglis, and C. Higham in Antiquity; “The Bioarchaeological Investigation of Children and Childhood” with N. Tayles in Social Bioarchaeology; and “The Bioarchaeological Investigation of Childhood and Social Age: Problems and Prospects” with N. Tayles in Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. Stacey Hallman is a PhD student in sociology at the University of Western Ontario , Canada. “The Effect of Pandemic Influenza on Infant Mortality in Toronto, Ontario, 1917–1921” is the title of her MA thesis. Sarah Holt is a PhD student in anthropology at Ohio State University. “Individuals and Variation: Stable Isotope Analysis of Weaning Using Dental Serial Sections ” is the title of her MA thesis. Contributors · 261 Kelly J. Knudson is associate professor of anthropology and director of the Archaeological Chemistry Laboratory at Arizona State University. She has published Bioarchaeology and Identity in...