Ryan P Harrod
Biographic Data
| ID | 159901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ryan P Harrod |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ryan P |
| FAMILY NAME | Harrod |
| SIGNATURE | HARROD R P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alaska Anchorage |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4247-818X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Land of Opportunity
Taking a bioarchaeological approach that puts human skeletal remains in context with historical records, we reconstruct the experiences of three women who lived in the West during the 1800s and early 1900s. Telling the stories of one woman from a homestead outside the city of Las Vegas, Nevada and two women recovered from a sand dune near Walters Ferry, Idaho, we offer insight into what life was like for those who ventured west in search of new i…
Gendered Violence in Small- Scale Societies in the Past
The Politics of Pain
Analysis of pathology and activity‐related changes to the patellae of individuals from Tell Abraq
The examination of comingled ossuary collections creates unique analytical issues as bones are rarely articulated, requiring that the skeletal elements be examined on an individual basis. A result is that the estimation of crucial demographic information like age at death and sex becomes problematic and attempts to ascertain this information involve a high degree of error. Bearing these issues in mind, however, the focus of this project is to ide…
A track in the Tanana
Subjugated in the San Juan Basin
For over two decades archaeologists and bioarchaeologists have identified evidence to suggest that there was a system of captivity and subjugation in the American Southwest before the arrival of Europeans. However, to understand the practice of taking captives in the region, we must attempt to determine why people are subjugated and who is at risk of being enslaved. The focus of this paper is to understand the signs of captivity in the archaeolog…
Recognizing People in the Prehistoric Southwest
The new edited volume by Jill Neitzel titled Recognizing People: In the Prehistoric Southwest combines archaeological material, iconography, bioarchaeological data from human skeletal remains, ling
The Bioarchaeology of Social Control
The Bioarchaeology of Pain and Suffering
Ancient human remains can be analyzed with an eye toward clarifying the limits of human adaptation to many of life's hardships. Data collected from the remnants of skeletonized bodies provides information on the costs of living under trying times and the pain, suffering, and disability experienced. Focusing on the survivors of stressful conditions such as colonization, endemic warfare, climate change, or slavery provides a way to examine the expe…
Rails Built of the Ancestors’ Bones
Bioarchaeological contributions to the study of violence
The bioarchaeological record has an abundance of scientific evidence based on skeletal indicators of trauma to argue for a long history of internal and external group conflict. However, the findings also suggest variability, nuance, and unevenness in the type, use, and meaning of violence across time and space and therefore defy generalizations or easy quantification. Documenting violence‐related behaviors provides an overview of the often unique…
Ghostly Gunslingers
In October 1900, Edwin and William Kiel were killed outside of Nevada's oldest standing structure in North Las Vegas. Since their death, the Kiel brothers have been analysed by bioarchaeologists and forensic experts. Their ranch, now a historic site, remains the property of the city of North Las Vegas and is a contested space which has seen little development. In this article, we discuss the post-mortem social lives of the brothers within the con…
Centers of control
The use of violence as a means of social control among higher status members of the Ancestral Pueblo is explored by using data derived from the burials and the burial context of several sites between AD 850 and 1300. High-status burials, while relatively rare in the archeological record, are of interest because of the role the individuals are assumed to have played in the culture. It has been suggested that there were "elites" among the Ancestral…
Battered and abused
The Bioarchaeology Of Violence
"Human violence is an inescapable aspect of our society and culture. As the archaeological record clearly shows, this has always been true. What is its origin? What role does it play in shaping our behavior? How do ritual acts and cultural sanctions make violence acceptable? These and other questions are addressed by the contributors to The Bioarchaeology of Violence. Organized thematically, the volume opens by laying the groundwork for new theor…
Hard Labor and Hostile Encounters
Phylogeny of the southern Plateau—An osteometric evaluation of inter-tribal relations
Looting, Collecting and Selling Ancient Artifacts
Bioarchaeological contributions to the study of violence
The bioarchaeological record has an abundance of scientific evidence based on skeletal indicators of trauma to argue for a long history of internal and external group conflict. However, the findings also suggest variability, nuance, and unevenness in the type, use, and meaning of violence across time and space and therefore defy generalizations or easy quantification. Documenting violence‐related behaviors provides an overview of the often unique…
Hard Labor and Hostile Encounters
Subjugated in the San Juan Basin
For over two decades archaeologists and bioarchaeologists have identified evidence to suggest that there was a system of captivity and subjugation in the American Southwest before the arrival of Europeans. However, to understand the practice of taking captives in the region, we must attempt to determine why people are subjugated and who is at risk of being enslaved. The focus of this paper is to understand the signs of captivity in the archaeolog…
The Bioarchaeology of Social Control
The Bioarchaeology of Pain and Suffering
Ancient human remains can be analyzed with an eye toward clarifying the limits of human adaptation to many of life's hardships. Data collected from the remnants of skeletonized bodies provides information on the costs of living under trying times and the pain, suffering, and disability experienced. Focusing on the survivors of stressful conditions such as colonization, endemic warfare, climate change, or slavery provides a way to examine the expe…
Rails Built of the Ancestors’ Bones
Ghostly Gunslingers
In October 1900, Edwin and William Kiel were killed outside of Nevada's oldest standing structure in North Las Vegas. Since their death, the Kiel brothers have been analysed by bioarchaeologists and forensic experts. Their ranch, now a historic site, remains the property of the city of North Las Vegas and is a contested space which has seen little development. In this article, we discuss the post-mortem social lives of the brothers within the con…
Analysis of pathology and activity‐related changes to the patellae of individuals from Tell Abraq
The examination of comingled ossuary collections creates unique analytical issues as bones are rarely articulated, requiring that the skeletal elements be examined on an individual basis. A result is that the estimation of crucial demographic information like age at death and sex becomes problematic and attempts to ascertain this information involve a high degree of error. Bearing these issues in mind, however, the focus of this project is to ide…
A track in the Tanana
Looting, Collecting and Selling Ancient Artifacts
Phylogeny of the southern Plateau—An osteometric evaluation of inter-tribal relations
Centers of control
The use of violence as a means of social control among higher status members of the Ancestral Pueblo is explored by using data derived from the burials and the burial context of several sites between AD 850 and 1300. High-status burials, while relatively rare in the archeological record, are of interest because of the role the individuals are assumed to have played in the culture. It has been suggested that there were "elites" among the Ancestral…
Battered and abused
The Bioarchaeology Of Violence
"Human violence is an inescapable aspect of our society and culture. As the archaeological record clearly shows, this has always been true. What is its origin? What role does it play in shaping our behavior? How do ritual acts and cultural sanctions make violence acceptable? These and other questions are addressed by the contributors to The Bioarchaeology of Violence. Organized thematically, the volume opens by laying the groundwork for new theor…
Hard Labor and Hostile Encounters
Ghostly Gunslingers
In October 1900, Edwin and William Kiel were killed outside of Nevada's oldest standing structure in North Las Vegas. Since their death, the Kiel brothers have been analysed by bioarchaeologists and forensic experts. Their ranch, now a historic site, remains the property of the city of North Las Vegas and is a contested space which has seen little development. In this article, we discuss the post-mortem social lives of the brothers within the con…
Rails Built of the Ancestors’ Bones
Bioarchaeological contributions to the study of violence
The bioarchaeological record has an abundance of scientific evidence based on skeletal indicators of trauma to argue for a long history of internal and external group conflict. However, the findings also suggest variability, nuance, and unevenness in the type, use, and meaning of violence across time and space and therefore defy generalizations or easy quantification. Documenting violence‐related behaviors provides an overview of the often unique…
The Bioarchaeology of Pain and Suffering
Ancient human remains can be analyzed with an eye toward clarifying the limits of human adaptation to many of life's hardships. Data collected from the remnants of skeletonized bodies provides information on the costs of living under trying times and the pain, suffering, and disability experienced. Focusing on the survivors of stressful conditions such as colonization, endemic warfare, climate change, or slavery provides a way to examine the expe…
The Bioarchaeology of Social Control
Subjugated in the San Juan Basin
For over two decades archaeologists and bioarchaeologists have identified evidence to suggest that there was a system of captivity and subjugation in the American Southwest before the arrival of Europeans. However, to understand the practice of taking captives in the region, we must attempt to determine why people are subjugated and who is at risk of being enslaved. The focus of this paper is to understand the signs of captivity in the archaeolog…
Recognizing People in the Prehistoric Southwest
The new edited volume by Jill Neitzel titled Recognizing People: In the Prehistoric Southwest combines archaeological material, iconography, bioarchaeological data from human skeletal remains, ling
Analysis of pathology and activity‐related changes to the patellae of individuals from Tell Abraq
The examination of comingled ossuary collections creates unique analytical issues as bones are rarely articulated, requiring that the skeletal elements be examined on an individual basis. A result is that the estimation of crucial demographic information like age at death and sex becomes problematic and attempts to ascertain this information involve a high degree of error. Bearing these issues in mind, however, the focus of this project is to ide…
A track in the Tanana
Gendered Violence in Small- Scale Societies in the Past
The Politics of Pain
The Land of Opportunity
Taking a bioarchaeological approach that puts human skeletal remains in context with historical records, we reconstruct the experiences of three women who lived in the West during the 1800s and early 1900s. Telling the stories of one woman from a homestead outside the city of Las Vegas, Nevada and two women recovered from a sand dune near Walters Ferry, Idaho, we offer insight into what life was like for those who ventured west in search of new i…
Geography (11 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · History (8 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Bioarchaeology (5 works) · Demography (5 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works)