Nancy Tayles
Biographic Data
| ID | 109190 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Tayles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Tayles |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLES N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 517 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Skeletal Dysplasia During the Bronze Age in Northeast Thailand (3000–2500 BP)
This study examines a case of skeletal dysplasia in an adult male (B290) from the Bronze Age at the site of Ban Non Wat, Northeast Thailand. Skeletal dysplasia, a group of genetic disorders affecting bone and cartilage growth, presents diagnostic challenges due to overlapping clinical features. B290 exhibited rhizomelia, humeral varus deformity, coxa vara, and block thoracic vertebra. A thorough differential diagnosis comparing 56 skeletal dyspla…
Interpreting osteoarthritis in bioarchaeology: Highlighting the importance of a clinical approach through case studies from prehistoric Thailand
Considering the palaeoepidemiological implications of socioeconomic and environmental change in Southeast Asia
Human health change during prehistory is often assumed to be intimately associated with changes to sociopolitical complexity and subsistence regime. It is only possible to theorise about how, when and why populations may have experienced deteriorations in health, however, by taking into account context-specific mechanisms behind changes. In mainland Southeast Asia, for instance, changes to subsistence at the introduction of agricultural resources…
Supernumerary heads to biceps brachii muscle and Asian population history
Linear and appositional growth in infants and children from the prehistoric settlement of Ban Non Wat, Northeast Thailand: Evaluating biological responses to agricultural intensification in Southeast …
The bioarchaeological model of health change predicts a deterioration in population health with the adoption and intensification of agriculture. However, research in mainland Southeast Asia challenges this model, showing no clear pattern of health deterioration associated with the intensification of rice agriculture. Childhood growth, a sensitive indicator of general population stress, is used in this paper to test the applicability of the bioarc…
The Rima Rau Burial Cave, Atiu, Cook Islands
Despite the interment of the dead in burial caves being a common prehistoric mortuary practice on the makatea (fossilized limestone coral reef) islands of Polynesia, detailed and scientific recording of these burial caves is rare. Te Ana Rima Rau—“The Cave of the Five Hundred”—is a burial cave on the makatea island of Atiu, in the southern Cook Islands, Polynesia. The Rima Rau cave environment represents an ideal, confined area in which spatial a…
Using isotopic evidence to assess the impact of migration and the two‐layer hypothesis in prehistoric Northeast T hailand
OBJECTIVES: The nature of the agricultural transition in Southeast Asia has been a topic of some debate for archaeologists over the past decades. A prominent model, known as the two-layer hypothesis, states that indigenous hunter-gatherers were subsumed by the expansion of exotic Neolithic farmers into the area around 2000 BC. These farmers had ultimate origins in East Asia and brought rice and millet agriculture. Ban Non Wat is one of the few ar…
A prehistoric flexed human burial from Pha Phen, Middle Mekong Valley, Laos: Its context in Southeast Asia
This paper describes a human skeleton from a rock-shelter in northeast Laos, dated to ~7000 BP. It was excavated in 2004 and moved en bloc to the Laos National Museum in Vientiane. Here we report observations made from the in situ skeleton. The burial is the largely complete but slightly damaged remains of a tall, middle-aged, probable male buried on his side in a flexed position. His teeth were heavily worn and one was infected but otherwise the…
Using Enthesis Robusticity to Infer Activity in the Past: A Review
Aspects of health in prehistoric mainland Southeast Asia: Indicators of stress in response to the intensification of rice agriculture
Numerous bioarcheological investigations have suggested that as agriculture intensifies, levels of physiological stress and poor health increase. However, previous research in Southeast Asia suggests that a decline in health was not universal. This study aimed to provide the first investigation of human health during the intensification of rice agriculture in the large skeletal sample from the prehistoric site of Ban Non Wat, Northeast Thailand (…
Economic change after the agricultural revolution in Southeast Asia
Three prehistoric sites in the Upper Mun River Valley of north-eastern Thailand have provided a detailed chronological succession comprising 12 occupation phases. These represent occupation spanning 2300 years, from initial settlement in the Neolithic (seventeenth century BC) through to the Iron Age, ending in the seventh century AD with the foundation of early states. The precise chronology in place in the Upper Mun River Valley makes it possibl…
From the mouths of babes: Dental caries in infants and children and the intensification of agriculture in mainland Southeast Asia
Many bioarchaeological studies have established a link between increased dental caries prevalence and the intensification of agriculture. However, research in Southeast Asia challenges the global application of this theory. Although often overlooked, dental health of infants and children can provide a sensitive source of information concerning health and subsistence change. This article investigates the prevalence and location of caries in the de…
Cultural Modification of the Dentition in Prehistoric Cambodia
Intentional dental modification, in the form of ablation and filing, is reported for the first time from Cambodia in two late prehistoric sites (Phum Snay and Phum Sophy, c. 2500 to 1500 bp). Bioarchaeological research is relatively new for this region, and this study significantly adds to our reconstruction of past behaviours in mainland Southeast Asia. The skeletal samples combine both excavated material and large looted collections in the form…
Burial containers – A hidden aspect of mortuary practices: Archaeothanatology at Ban Non Wat, Thailand
Moving peoples, changing diets: Isotopic differences highlight migration and subsistence changes in the Upper Mun River Valley, Thailand
Newborn twins from prehistoric mainland Southeast Asia: Birth, Death and Personhood
Double infant burials in unusually high numbers occurred at Khok Phanom Di during a phase associated with immigration and some evidence of early agricultural practices. A study of their stratigraphic context and relative ages led to the interpretation that these were twins. Through an exploration of the medical and anthropological literature of twins, and in conjunction with their mortuary context, the authors conclude that these babies died of n…
Lapita Burials, a New Lapita Cemetery and Post-Lapita Burials from Malakula, Northern Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific
During archaeological excavations investigating Lapita period sites on the islands of Uripiv and Vao off the northeast coast of Malakula, northern Vanuatu, Lapita (8) and Post-Lapita burials (7) were recovered. These are the first prehistoric burials to be reported on in detail from northern Vanuatu and the site on Uripiv Island has since been confirmed as a Lapita cemetery, one of only three identified to date. The Uripiv cemetery is situated in…
Re-examining the chemical evaluation of diagenesis in human bone apatite
The Archaeological Infant in Biological and Social Context: A Response to Mike Lally and Traci Ardren 2008. Little Artefacts: Rethinking the Constitution of the Archaeological Infant. Childhood in the…
This paper responds to the main points put forward in a recent paper by Lally and Ardren (2008) on the social study of the archaeological 'infant'. They criticise the biological terminology used for defining 'infancy' and argue that osteoarchaeology is a form of 'bio-power', in effect disregarding the importance of bioarchaeological and humanist research on past human remains. They describe the treatment of human bones in lowland Mayan civilisati…
Intrinsic or extrinsic population growth in Iron Age northeast Thailand? The evidence from isotopic analysis
Talon cusp in a deciduous lateral incisor from prehistoric Southeast Asia
This paper describes a rare case of talon cusp in an infant from prehistoric Southeast Asia and represents the earliest case of talon cusp recorded. In addition to talon cusp, other aspects of its morphology may indicate a possible double tooth. This case is interpreted in the context of clinical and bioarchaeological research on this dental trait. Issues pertaining to the recognition of talon cusp, including clinical terminology used for this an…
Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia
The People of Wairau Bar: A Re-examination
A new study of macroscopic evidence of health in Wairau Bar human skeletal remains (koiwi tangata), prior to their reburial in April 2009, generally supports the views of Houghton (1975), but reports new evidence of childhood stress, the presence of specific infectious diseases, and revises dental evidence of diet. Assessment of health parameters between spatially separated groups within the cemetery (uruupa) found differences in the demography, …
Community Diversity at Ban Lum Khao, Thailand: Isotopic Evidence from the Skeletons
Isotopes of strontium, carbon, and oxygen were analyzed in human tooth enamel from the Bronze Age site of Ban Lum Khao (c. 1400 B.C. -500 B.C. ) in Thailand. The strontium and oxygen isotopes, which generally reflect place of origin, delimit discrete groups among the individuals. Among the females, different groups determined through isotopic signatures were buried with distinctive pottery types. This suggests that social identity, drawn from vil…
A Preliminary Report on Health and Disease in Early Lapita Skeletons, Vanuatu: Possible Biological Costs of Island Colonization
The human colonization of Near Oceania has an antiquity of over 40,000 years but colonization of Remote Oceania, including Vanuatu, did not begin until around 3200–3100 BP. Just before this time a distinctive form of dentate-stamped pottery known as the Lapita style appeared in the Bismarck Archipelago northeast of the island of New Guinea. The only direct evidence of health in these Remote Oceanic settlers is their skeletal remains, but until re…
The Bioarchaeological Investigation of Childhood and Social Age: Problems and Prospects
Agriculture and dental caries? The case of rice in prehistoric Southeast Asia
The agricultural transition has long been recognized to have been a very important period in human prehistory. Its timing and consequences, including the effects on human health, have been intensively researched. In recent decades, this has included the idea that there is a universal positive correlation between the adoption of agriculture based on a carbohydrate staple crop and dental caries prevalence. This is mainly based on evidence from Amer…
Shifting Gender Relations at Khok Phanom Di, Thailand: Isotopic Evidence from the Skeletons
The values for isotopes of strontium, carbon, and oxygen in human tooth enamel from the prehistoric site of Khok Phanom Di (ca. 2100-1500 BC) in Thailand shed light on human mobility and marital residence during a crucial period of subsistence change. Khok Phanom Di was a sedentary coastal community that apparently relied on hunting, gathering, and fishing in the midst of a transition to rice agriculture in the interior. The results of the isotop…
Moving peoples, changing diets: Isotopic differences highlight migration and subsistence changes in the Upper Mun River Valley, Thailand
Re-examining the chemical evaluation of diagenesis in human bone apatite
Infant Death in Late Prehistoric Southeast Asia
Important information on demography, epidemiology, inter-population differences in growth, infant burial practices, and social aspects of the community can be gleaned from the study of perinatal bones. The increasing number of perinates unearthed from prehistoric sites in Southeast Asia provides a rare opportunity to investigate these issues. The high number of full-term infants represented at the site of Khok Phanom Di in Central Thailand (4000-…
Community Diversity at Ban Lum Khao, Thailand: Isotopic Evidence from the Skeletons
Isotopes of strontium, carbon, and oxygen were analyzed in human tooth enamel from the Bronze Age site of Ban Lum Khao (c. 1400 B.C. -500 B.C. ) in Thailand. The strontium and oxygen isotopes, which generally reflect place of origin, delimit discrete groups among the individuals. Among the females, different groups determined through isotopic signatures were buried with distinctive pottery types. This suggests that social identity, drawn from vil…
Intrinsic or extrinsic population growth in Iron Age northeast Thailand? The evidence from isotopic analysis
Patterns of dental wear in the early Maori dentition
The levels of tooth wear were surveyed in 50 pre‐contact Maori skulls (23 of them female) from New Zealand. In addition to a generalized tooth wear index, we evaluated occlusal wear for erosion and abrasion. Occlusal microwear was also investigated using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images and, finally, the occlusal slope was determined at the level of the first molar teeth. The general pattern of wear was one of severe occlusal reduction w…
Stress near the start of life? Localised enamel hypoplasia of the primary canine in late prehistoric mainland Southeast Asia
Field anthropology: Application to burial contexts in prehistoric Southeast Asia
Adult fracture patterns in prehistoric Thailand: A Biocultural Interpretation
The prevalence and distribution patterns of trauma in samples of human skeletal remains can reflect the risks to which the community was exposed in daily activities or as a result of interpersonal violence. This paper describes the patterns of non-vertebral fractures in skeletal samples from four prehistoric Thai sites in terms of long bone fracture rates and individual prevalence rates. The sites range in date from c. 2000 BC (Neolithic) to 400 …
Age estimation of children from prehistoric Southeast Asia: Are the dental formation methods used appropriate
A Preliminary Report on Health and Disease in Early Lapita Skeletons, Vanuatu: Possible Biological Costs of Island Colonization
The human colonization of Near Oceania has an antiquity of over 40,000 years but colonization of Remote Oceania, including Vanuatu, did not begin until around 3200–3100 BP. Just before this time a distinctive form of dentate-stamped pottery known as the Lapita style appeared in the Bismarck Archipelago northeast of the island of New Guinea. The only direct evidence of health in these Remote Oceanic settlers is their skeletal remains, but until re…
Interpreting osteoarthritis in bioarchaeology: Highlighting the importance of a clinical approach through case studies from prehistoric Thailand
Skeletal pathology in a prehistoric Pacific Island sample: Issues in lesion recording, quantification, and interpretation
This paper presents a profile of evidence of disease in a skeletal sample from Taumako Island, Southeast Solomon Islands, Melanesia, and aims to increase awareness of the prehistoric Pacific Island disease environment. It also addresses issues of lesion recording, quantification, and interpretation. Two methodologies for the determination of lesion prevalence were applied, one based on prevalence in observable individuals and one in skeletal elem…
From the mouths of babes: Dental caries in infants and children and the intensification of agriculture in mainland Southeast Asia
Many bioarchaeological studies have established a link between increased dental caries prevalence and the intensification of agriculture. However, research in Southeast Asia challenges the global application of this theory. Although often overlooked, dental health of infants and children can provide a sensitive source of information concerning health and subsistence change. This article investigates the prevalence and location of caries in the de…
The functional cost of tertiary yaws (Treponema pertenue) in a prehistoric Pacific Island skeletal sample
Cultural Modification of the Dentition in Prehistoric Cambodia
Intentional dental modification, in the form of ablation and filing, is reported for the first time from Cambodia in two late prehistoric sites (Phum Snay and Phum Sophy, c. 2500 to 1500 bp). Bioarchaeological research is relatively new for this region, and this study significantly adds to our reconstruction of past behaviours in mainland Southeast Asia. The skeletal samples combine both excavated material and large looted collections in the form…
Leprosy and tuberculosis in Iron Age Southeast Asia
The recent excavation of a sample of 120 human skeletons from an Iron Age site in the valley of the Mun River, a tributary of the Mekong River on the Khorat Plateau in northeast Thailand, has provided the largest sample from this period in the region to date. This paper reviews three individuals from the sample with pathological changes for which the differential diagnosis includes systemic infectious disease. In two of these, both males with les…
Linear and appositional growth in infants and children from the prehistoric settlement of Ban Non Wat, Northeast Thailand: Evaluating biological responses to agricultural intensification in Southeast …
The bioarchaeological model of health change predicts a deterioration in population health with the adoption and intensification of agriculture. However, research in mainland Southeast Asia challenges this model, showing no clear pattern of health deterioration associated with the intensification of rice agriculture. Childhood growth, a sensitive indicator of general population stress, is used in this paper to test the applicability of the bioarc…
Using isotopic evidence to assess the impact of migration and the two‐layer hypothesis in prehistoric Northeast T hailand
OBJECTIVES: The nature of the agricultural transition in Southeast Asia has been a topic of some debate for archaeologists over the past decades. A prominent model, known as the two-layer hypothesis, states that indigenous hunter-gatherers were subsumed by the expansion of exotic Neolithic farmers into the area around 2000 BC. These farmers had ultimate origins in East Asia and brought rice and millet agriculture. Ban Non Wat is one of the few ar…
Aspects of health in prehistoric mainland Southeast Asia: Indicators of stress in response to the intensification of rice agriculture
Numerous bioarcheological investigations have suggested that as agriculture intensifies, levels of physiological stress and poor health increase. However, previous research in Southeast Asia suggests that a decline in health was not universal. This study aimed to provide the first investigation of human health during the intensification of rice agriculture in the large skeletal sample from the prehistoric site of Ban Non Wat, Northeast Thailand (…
Considering the palaeoepidemiological implications of socioeconomic and environmental change in Southeast Asia
Human health change during prehistory is often assumed to be intimately associated with changes to sociopolitical complexity and subsistence regime. It is only possible to theorise about how, when and why populations may have experienced deteriorations in health, however, by taking into account context-specific mechanisms behind changes. In mainland Southeast Asia, for instance, changes to subsistence at the introduction of agricultural resources…
Human biology, environment and ritual at Khok Phanom Di
Khok Phanom Di is located in Central Thailand, and was occupied between 2000 and 1500 BC. A cemetery spanning 17–20 generations was encountered, in which members of the same family were interred alongside and over each other within collective burial areas. At first settlement, the site commanded a major estuary, one of the world's richest habitats in terms of self‐replenishing food. The diet comprised marine species and rice. Access was possible …
Human biology, environment and ritual at Khok Phanom Di
Khok Phanom Di is located in Central Thailand, and was occupied between 2000 and 1500 BC. A cemetery spanning 17–20 generations was encountered, in which members of the same family were interred alongside and over each other within collective burial areas. At first settlement, the site commanded a major estuary, one of the world's richest habitats in terms of self‐replenishing food. The diet comprised marine species and rice. Access was possible …
Tooth Ablation in Prehistoric Southeast Asia
A sample of skeletons excavated from an undisturbed prehistoric (4000–3500 years BP) burial site in Thailand included a high proportion of individuals with anterior teeth missing in distinctive, mostly symmetrical, patterns. The patterns, types and numbers of teeth missing have been compared between males and females, with age at death, with depth of burial and among spatially distinct groups within the cemetery. The patterns of missing teeth cha…
Tooth Ablation in Prehistoric Southeast Asia
A sample of skeletons excavated from an undisturbed prehistoric (4000–3500 years BP) burial site in Thailand included a high proportion of individuals with anterior teeth missing in distinctive, mostly symmetrical, patterns. The patterns, types and numbers of teeth missing have been compared between males and females, with age at death, with depth of burial and among spatially distinct groups within the cemetery. The patterns of missing teeth cha…
Anemia, genetic diseases, and malaria in prehistoric mainland southeast Asia
The analysis of a sample of skeletons from the 4,000-year-old site of Khok Phanom Di on the coast of central Thailand has identified a number of individuals with skeletal evidence suggestive of severe anemia. The differential diagnosis of the lesions is discussed and the presence of one of the thalassemia syndromes is proposed. The implications of this for southeast Asian prehistory are discussed. The presence of these conditions has been suggest…
Abscess cavity’—a misnomer
Agriculture and dental caries? The case of rice in prehistoric Southeast Asia
The agricultural transition has long been recognized to have been a very important period in human prehistory. Its timing and consequences, including the effects on human health, have been intensively researched. In recent decades, this has included the idea that there is a universal positive correlation between the adoption of agriculture based on a carbohydrate staple crop and dental caries prevalence. This is mainly based on evidence from Amer…
Patterns of dental wear in the early Maori dentition
The levels of tooth wear were surveyed in 50 pre‐contact Maori skulls (23 of them female) from New Zealand. In addition to a generalized tooth wear index, we evaluated occlusal wear for erosion and abrasion. Occlusal microwear was also investigated using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images and, finally, the occlusal slope was determined at the level of the first molar teeth. The general pattern of wear was one of severe occlusal reduction w…
Bronze Age Myanmar (Burma): A report on the people from the cemetery of Nyaunggan, Upper Myanmar
Rare information is presented on Bronze Age burials from Burma. Skeletal remains of 43 individuals are placed in a broader southeast Asian context
The functional cost of tertiary yaws (Treponema pertenue) in a prehistoric Pacific Island skeletal sample
Skeletal pathology in a prehistoric Pacific Island sample: Issues in lesion recording, quantification, and interpretation
This paper presents a profile of evidence of disease in a skeletal sample from Taumako Island, Southeast Solomon Islands, Melanesia, and aims to increase awareness of the prehistoric Pacific Island disease environment. It also addresses issues of lesion recording, quantification, and interpretation. Two methodologies for the determination of lesion prevalence were applied, one based on prevalence in observable individuals and one in skeletal elem…
Murder or mortuary behaviour? An Iron Age enigma from Northeast Thailand
During the excavation of the Iron Age site of Noen U-Loke, in the Mun River Valley, northeast Thailand, in 1998 an unusual case of possible fatal cranial trauma in an elderly woman was recovered. Her skull was cleaved across the centre from side to side. The woman was buried with her head inside a ceramic pot, which is unusual for the site, but with jewellery similar to that in other burials. She was interred in a large cluster of graves, with a …
Leprosy and tuberculosis in Iron Age Southeast Asia
The recent excavation of a sample of 120 human skeletons from an Iron Age site in the valley of the Mun River, a tributary of the Mekong River on the Khorat Plateau in northeast Thailand, has provided the largest sample from this period in the region to date. This paper reviews three individuals from the sample with pathological changes for which the differential diagnosis includes systemic infectious disease. In two of these, both males with les…
Age estimation of children from prehistoric Southeast Asia: Are the dental formation methods used appropriate
Adult fracture patterns in prehistoric Thailand: A Biocultural Interpretation
The prevalence and distribution patterns of trauma in samples of human skeletal remains can reflect the risks to which the community was exposed in daily activities or as a result of interpersonal violence. This paper describes the patterns of non-vertebral fractures in skeletal samples from four prehistoric Thai sites in terms of long bone fracture rates and individual prevalence rates. The sites range in date from c. 2000 BC (Neolithic) to 400 …
"Forensic Identification of "Race: The Issues in New Zealand
The identification of the race of human remains by forensic anthropologists in New Zealand provides Maori with a service that is both helpful and contentious. In estimating race anthropologists acknowledge the Maori view that physical remains are important because they retain the spirit of the deceased after death. Doing so is ethically paradoxical because the estimation of race implies that races exist, a concept that has been questioned and rej…
Shifting Gender Relations at Khok Phanom Di, Thailand: Isotopic Evidence from the Skeletons
The values for isotopes of strontium, carbon, and oxygen in human tooth enamel from the prehistoric site of Khok Phanom Di (ca. 2100-1500 BC) in Thailand shed light on human mobility and marital residence during a crucial period of subsistence change. Khok Phanom Di was a sedentary coastal community that apparently relied on hunting, gathering, and fishing in the midst of a transition to rice agriculture in the interior. The results of the isotop…
A Preliminary Report on Health and Disease in Early Lapita Skeletons, Vanuatu: Possible Biological Costs of Island Colonization
The human colonization of Near Oceania has an antiquity of over 40,000 years but colonization of Remote Oceania, including Vanuatu, did not begin until around 3200–3100 BP. Just before this time a distinctive form of dentate-stamped pottery known as the Lapita style appeared in the Bismarck Archipelago northeast of the island of New Guinea. The only direct evidence of health in these Remote Oceanic settlers is their skeletal remains, but until re…
Field anthropology: Application to burial contexts in prehistoric Southeast Asia
Stress near the start of life? Localised enamel hypoplasia of the primary canine in late prehistoric mainland Southeast Asia
The Bioarchaeological Investigation of Childhood and Social Age: Problems and Prospects
Infant Death in Late Prehistoric Southeast Asia
Important information on demography, epidemiology, inter-population differences in growth, infant burial practices, and social aspects of the community can be gleaned from the study of perinatal bones. The increasing number of perinates unearthed from prehistoric sites in Southeast Asia provides a rare opportunity to investigate these issues. The high number of full-term infants represented at the site of Khok Phanom Di in Central Thailand (4000-…
Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia
The People of Wairau Bar: A Re-examination
A new study of macroscopic evidence of health in Wairau Bar human skeletal remains (koiwi tangata), prior to their reburial in April 2009, generally supports the views of Houghton (1975), but reports new evidence of childhood stress, the presence of specific infectious diseases, and revises dental evidence of diet. Assessment of health parameters between spatially separated groups within the cemetery (uruupa) found differences in the demography, …
Community Diversity at Ban Lum Khao, Thailand: Isotopic Evidence from the Skeletons
Isotopes of strontium, carbon, and oxygen were analyzed in human tooth enamel from the Bronze Age site of Ban Lum Khao (c. 1400 B.C. -500 B.C. ) in Thailand. The strontium and oxygen isotopes, which generally reflect place of origin, delimit discrete groups among the individuals. Among the females, different groups determined through isotopic signatures were buried with distinctive pottery types. This suggests that social identity, drawn from vil…
The Archaeological Infant in Biological and Social Context: A Response to Mike Lally and Traci Ardren 2008. Little Artefacts: Rethinking the Constitution of the Archaeological Infant. Childhood in the…
This paper responds to the main points put forward in a recent paper by Lally and Ardren (2008) on the social study of the archaeological 'infant'. They criticise the biological terminology used for defining 'infancy' and argue that osteoarchaeology is a form of 'bio-power', in effect disregarding the importance of bioarchaeological and humanist research on past human remains. They describe the treatment of human bones in lowland Mayan civilisati…
Archaeology (34 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (34 works) · Geography (34 works) · Prehistory (28 works) · Medicine (19 works) · History (17 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (16 works) · Biology (15 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (14 works) · Demography (14 works)