Tracy K Betsinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 124041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tracy K Betsinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tracy K |
| FAMILY NAME | Betsinger |
| SIGNATURE | BETSINGER T K |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY Oneonta |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2936-5081 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Trauma and Violence in Medieval Poland
The concept of intersectionality was developed by Black feminist scholars to explore how multiple identities of an individual interact with and impact a variety of outcomes, both biological and social. Intersectional analysis of trauma has been demonstrated to be an effective method for bioarchaeologists to gain a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of violence in the past. The study presented here examines the patterns of trauma, includ…
A Colony without a Cough? A Bioarchaeological Exploration of Tuberculosis at the Eighteenth-Century Fortress of Louisbourg, Canada
Toward a bioarchaeology of urbanization
Urbanization is one of the most important settlement shifts in human history and has been the focus of research within bioarchaeology for decades. However, there have been limited attempts to synthesize the results of these studies in order to gain a broader perspective on whether or how urbanization affects the biology, demography, and behavior of humans, and how these potential effects are embodied in the human skeleton. This paper outlines how…
Patterns of Antemortem Tooth Loss in Late Prehistoric West-central Tennessee
The later prehistoric subsistence-settlement pattern in the Kentucky Lake Reservoir (KLR) of northern west-central Tennessee is of interest as human occupation inexplicably terminates by AD 1450 as part of a larger regional depopulation. Antemortem tooth loss (ATL) collectively and by tooth type was identified in four site samples from the KLR. These are a Late Woodland (AD 600-900) sample (Hobbs) and three Middle Mississippian period (AD 1100- 1…
The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange
While death and dying are universal, the treatment of the dead is culturally and temporally specific, highlighting the influence of both the deceased individual and the living community within the mortuary process. This volume focuses specifically on non-normative or atypical mortuary practices situated within a contextually driven understanding of social and cultural norms surrounding the process of interment. Each chapter compares and contrasts…
Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange Bioarchaeological Explorations of Atypical Burials
This volume focuses specifically on non-normative or atypical mortuary practices situated within a contextually-driven understanding of social and cultural norms surrounding the process of interment. Drawing on examples from North and South America, Europe, and Asia, this comprehensive volume stresses the commonality between non-normative or atypical treatments spanning millennia. Additionally, this volume strives to employ a holistic understandi…
A singular case of advanced caries sicca in a pre-Columbian skull from East Tennessee
Caries as an archaeological problem-solving tool
The dentition from two Middle Mississippian period (~AD 1100-1350) site samples (Gray Farm [~AD 1150-1400], Link/Slayden [~AD 1200-1400]) from the Kentucky Lake Reservoir of west-central Tennessee area are examined for the presence of caries to assess whether a maize-intensive subsistence economy is evident or the retention of the cultivation of domesticated native seeds (i.e., the Eastern Agricultural Complex). Given the absence of archaeologica…
The Anthropology of the Fetus
Trends in mortality and biological stress in a medieval polish urban population
Anthropology of the Fetus
Excavating Identity
Endemic treponemal disease in late pre-Columbian prehistory
Deviant burials and social identity in a postmedieval Polish cemetery
Objectives Deviant burials can reveal important information about both social and individual identity, particularly when the mortuary record is supplemented by an examination of skeletal remains. At the postmedieval (17th to 18th c. AD) cemetery of Drawsko (Site 1), Poland, six individuals (of n = 285) received deviant, anti‐vampiristic mortuary treatment. A previous study using radiogenic strontium isotope ratios ( = 0.7112 ± 0.0006, 1 σ , n = 6…
Subsistence and Settlement Correlates of Treponemal Disease
After ca 1000 BC, coinciding with the transition to sedentism, tertiary stage treponemal disease apparently becomes osteologically pervasive in pre-Columbian North America. However, varying interobserver treponemal disease diagnostic thresholds, sampling error and the possibly ecosensitive nature of the pre-Columbian nonvenereal treponemal disease variants (i.e. yaws and treponarid) prevents subsistence-settlement pattern from becoming a reliable…
Governing from the Grave
Mortuary treatments are ways in which archaeologists can learn about the culture and lifestyle of past societies, in terms of how they view the dead. The dead, however, can continue to play a role in the lives of the living, which may also be reflected in funerary rites and burial treatments. This article explores the social agency of the dead, focusing on the ‘vampire burials’ of the post-medieval Polish site of Drawsko 1. These burials, identif…
Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (Dish) in pre-Columbian North America
Differential visibility of treponemal disease in pre‐Columbian stratified societies
Treponemal disease is known to be associated with the compromised community health of permanent village settlement. This association explains its high visibility in the village‐based, arguably chiefdom level, agriculturalist societies of late prehistoric (AD 1300–1600) North America. Within chiefdom‐level societies, health differences have often been demonstrated between mortuary‐defined “elite” and “nonelite” individuals. This theoretically shou…
Dental crown size and sex hormone concentrations
Previous researchers hypothesized that tooth types forming during early childhood should be less sexually dimorphic than those forming during later childhood, if sex hormone concentration differences between males and females increase progressively throughout childhood and can affect tooth size. Descriptive tooth size data have recently been cited in support of this hypothesis, particularly with respect to differences in sexual dimorphism among t…
The biological consequences of urbanization in medieval Poland
Dental crown size and sex hormone concentrations
Previous researchers hypothesized that tooth types forming during early childhood should be less sexually dimorphic than those forming during later childhood, if sex hormone concentration differences between males and females increase progressively throughout childhood and can affect tooth size. Descriptive tooth size data have recently been cited in support of this hypothesis, particularly with respect to differences in sexual dimorphism among t…
Toward a bioarchaeology of urbanization
Urbanization is one of the most important settlement shifts in human history and has been the focus of research within bioarchaeology for decades. However, there have been limited attempts to synthesize the results of these studies in order to gain a broader perspective on whether or how urbanization affects the biology, demography, and behavior of humans, and how these potential effects are embodied in the human skeleton. This paper outlines how…
Governing from the Grave
Mortuary treatments are ways in which archaeologists can learn about the culture and lifestyle of past societies, in terms of how they view the dead. The dead, however, can continue to play a role in the lives of the living, which may also be reflected in funerary rites and burial treatments. This article explores the social agency of the dead, focusing on the ‘vampire burials’ of the post-medieval Polish site of Drawsko 1. These burials, identif…
A Colony without a Cough? A Bioarchaeological Exploration of Tuberculosis at the Eighteenth-Century Fortress of Louisbourg, Canada
Caries as an archaeological problem-solving tool
The dentition from two Middle Mississippian period (~AD 1100-1350) site samples (Gray Farm [~AD 1150-1400], Link/Slayden [~AD 1200-1400]) from the Kentucky Lake Reservoir of west-central Tennessee area are examined for the presence of caries to assess whether a maize-intensive subsistence economy is evident or the retention of the cultivation of domesticated native seeds (i.e., the Eastern Agricultural Complex). Given the absence of archaeologica…
Endemic treponemal disease in late pre-Columbian prehistory
Subsistence and Settlement Correlates of Treponemal Disease
After ca 1000 BC, coinciding with the transition to sedentism, tertiary stage treponemal disease apparently becomes osteologically pervasive in pre-Columbian North America. However, varying interobserver treponemal disease diagnostic thresholds, sampling error and the possibly ecosensitive nature of the pre-Columbian nonvenereal treponemal disease variants (i.e. yaws and treponarid) prevents subsistence-settlement pattern from becoming a reliable…
Differential visibility of treponemal disease in pre‐Columbian stratified societies
Treponemal disease is known to be associated with the compromised community health of permanent village settlement. This association explains its high visibility in the village‐based, arguably chiefdom level, agriculturalist societies of late prehistoric (AD 1300–1600) North America. Within chiefdom‐level societies, health differences have often been demonstrated between mortuary‐defined “elite” and “nonelite” individuals. This theoretically shou…
Dental crown size and sex hormone concentrations
Previous researchers hypothesized that tooth types forming during early childhood should be less sexually dimorphic than those forming during later childhood, if sex hormone concentration differences between males and females increase progressively throughout childhood and can affect tooth size. Descriptive tooth size data have recently been cited in support of this hypothesis, particularly with respect to differences in sexual dimorphism among t…
Differential visibility of treponemal disease in pre‐Columbian stratified societies
Treponemal disease is known to be associated with the compromised community health of permanent village settlement. This association explains its high visibility in the village‐based, arguably chiefdom level, agriculturalist societies of late prehistoric (AD 1300–1600) North America. Within chiefdom‐level societies, health differences have often been demonstrated between mortuary‐defined “elite” and “nonelite” individuals. This theoretically shou…
Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (Dish) in pre-Columbian North America
Governing from the Grave
Mortuary treatments are ways in which archaeologists can learn about the culture and lifestyle of past societies, in terms of how they view the dead. The dead, however, can continue to play a role in the lives of the living, which may also be reflected in funerary rites and burial treatments. This article explores the social agency of the dead, focusing on the ‘vampire burials’ of the post-medieval Polish site of Drawsko 1. These burials, identif…
Subsistence and Settlement Correlates of Treponemal Disease
After ca 1000 BC, coinciding with the transition to sedentism, tertiary stage treponemal disease apparently becomes osteologically pervasive in pre-Columbian North America. However, varying interobserver treponemal disease diagnostic thresholds, sampling error and the possibly ecosensitive nature of the pre-Columbian nonvenereal treponemal disease variants (i.e. yaws and treponarid) prevents subsistence-settlement pattern from becoming a reliable…
The Anthropology of the Fetus
Trends in mortality and biological stress in a medieval polish urban population
Anthropology of the Fetus
Excavating Identity
Endemic treponemal disease in late pre-Columbian prehistory
Deviant burials and social identity in a postmedieval Polish cemetery
Objectives Deviant burials can reveal important information about both social and individual identity, particularly when the mortuary record is supplemented by an examination of skeletal remains. At the postmedieval (17th to 18th c. AD) cemetery of Drawsko (Site 1), Poland, six individuals (of n = 285) received deviant, anti‐vampiristic mortuary treatment. A previous study using radiogenic strontium isotope ratios ( = 0.7112 ± 0.0006, 1 σ , n = 6…
A singular case of advanced caries sicca in a pre-Columbian skull from East Tennessee
Caries as an archaeological problem-solving tool
The dentition from two Middle Mississippian period (~AD 1100-1350) site samples (Gray Farm [~AD 1150-1400], Link/Slayden [~AD 1200-1400]) from the Kentucky Lake Reservoir of west-central Tennessee area are examined for the presence of caries to assess whether a maize-intensive subsistence economy is evident or the retention of the cultivation of domesticated native seeds (i.e., the Eastern Agricultural Complex). Given the absence of archaeologica…
The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange
While death and dying are universal, the treatment of the dead is culturally and temporally specific, highlighting the influence of both the deceased individual and the living community within the mortuary process. This volume focuses specifically on non-normative or atypical mortuary practices situated within a contextually driven understanding of social and cultural norms surrounding the process of interment. Each chapter compares and contrasts…
Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange Bioarchaeological Explorations of Atypical Burials
This volume focuses specifically on non-normative or atypical mortuary practices situated within a contextually-driven understanding of social and cultural norms surrounding the process of interment. Drawing on examples from North and South America, Europe, and Asia, this comprehensive volume stresses the commonality between non-normative or atypical treatments spanning millennia. Additionally, this volume strives to employ a holistic understandi…
Toward a bioarchaeology of urbanization
Urbanization is one of the most important settlement shifts in human history and has been the focus of research within bioarchaeology for decades. However, there have been limited attempts to synthesize the results of these studies in order to gain a broader perspective on whether or how urbanization affects the biology, demography, and behavior of humans, and how these potential effects are embodied in the human skeleton. This paper outlines how…
Patterns of Antemortem Tooth Loss in Late Prehistoric West-central Tennessee
The later prehistoric subsistence-settlement pattern in the Kentucky Lake Reservoir (KLR) of northern west-central Tennessee is of interest as human occupation inexplicably terminates by AD 1450 as part of a larger regional depopulation. Antemortem tooth loss (ATL) collectively and by tooth type was identified in four site samples from the KLR. These are a Late Woodland (AD 600-900) sample (Hobbs) and three Middle Mississippian period (AD 1100- 1…
Trauma and Violence in Medieval Poland
The concept of intersectionality was developed by Black feminist scholars to explore how multiple identities of an individual interact with and impact a variety of outcomes, both biological and social. Intersectional analysis of trauma has been demonstrated to be an effective method for bioarchaeologists to gain a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of violence in the past. The study presented here examines the patterns of trauma, includ…
A Colony without a Cough? A Bioarchaeological Exploration of Tuberculosis at the Eighteenth-Century Fortress of Louisbourg, Canada
The biological consequences of urbanization in medieval Poland
Geography (13 works) · Archaeology (11 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Demography (9 works) · Biology (7 works) · Population (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Prehistory (6 works) · Ecology (5 works)