J D Bengtson
Biographic Data
| ID | 25238 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J D Bengtson |
| GIVEN NAMES | J D |
| FAMILY NAME | Bengtson |
| SIGNATURE | BENGTSON J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southeast Missouri State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9648-5804 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Identifying “Ina Jane Doe”
The 1992 cold case homicide of “Ina Jane Doe” illustrates how an interdisciplinary team worked to identify the decedent using a combined approach of skeletal re-analysis, updated forensic art informed by anthropologists’ input, archival research, and forensic investigative genetic genealogy. The original forensic art for “Ina Jane Doe” showed an over-pathologization of skeletal features and an inaccurate hairstyle; however, the case gained notori…
Death at distance
Drawing on literatures on mobility and memory, I present a theoretical and interpretive reframing of skeletal taphonomy and mortuary process previously reported for a precontact Oneota cemetery in the North American midcontinent. Most burials here were single inhumations, with individuals apparently interred promptly after death. Others were placed in graves containing multiple individuals who died violently and whose bones bore taphonomic signat…
Ancient history and new beginnings
Creation of deathscapes is integral to human place-making and the construction of our past, present, and future. As people practice mortuary rituals and related behaviours, space and time are conflated as they engage with spatial, temporal, and ideological aspects of the landscape, existing deathscapes, and ritual objects. Migration episodes offer an important spatio-temporal context for examining the construction of deathscape, and at the same t…
Infants, Mothers, and Gendered Space in a Mississippian Village
This paper discusses a unique structure known as House 1 from the Hunze-Evans village site (23CG8) in Southeast Missouri as a small step toward addressing a dearth of infant-focused research in pre-Columbian North America in general, and within the Mississippian cultural tradition in particular. House 1 has previously been considered as a women’s special-use structure, and a review of archaeological and ethnohistoric sources regarding Mississippi…
Women's Participation in Prehistoric Warfare
Considerations of Native American warriorhood are likely to conjure images of male-bodied, masculine individuals. While the majority of formally recognized warriors may have indeed fit this mould, it is also true that female-bodied/feminine warriors have been historically documented in many places, including North America. Further, even in cases where women were not formally recognized as such, it seems likely that they played offensive and defen…
Children, Migration and Mortuary Representation in the Late Prehistoric Central Illinois River Valley
Morton Village and the associated Norris Farms #36 cemetery site in Fulton County, Illinois, provide an opportunity to synthesise community and mortuary perspectives on life among Mississippian and Oneota inhabitants of the late prehistoric Central Illinois River Valley. Among research directions to develop from new Michigan State University-Dickson Mounds Museum excavations are questions regarding the role that the 143 subadults interred in the …
Ancient history and new beginnings
Creation of deathscapes is integral to human place-making and the construction of our past, present, and future. As people practice mortuary rituals and related behaviours, space and time are conflated as they engage with spatial, temporal, and ideological aspects of the landscape, existing deathscapes, and ritual objects. Migration episodes offer an important spatio-temporal context for examining the construction of deathscape, and at the same t…
Women's Participation in Prehistoric Warfare
Considerations of Native American warriorhood are likely to conjure images of male-bodied, masculine individuals. While the majority of formally recognized warriors may have indeed fit this mould, it is also true that female-bodied/feminine warriors have been historically documented in many places, including North America. Further, even in cases where women were not formally recognized as such, it seems likely that they played offensive and defen…
Children, Migration and Mortuary Representation in the Late Prehistoric Central Illinois River Valley
Morton Village and the associated Norris Farms #36 cemetery site in Fulton County, Illinois, provide an opportunity to synthesise community and mortuary perspectives on life among Mississippian and Oneota inhabitants of the late prehistoric Central Illinois River Valley. Among research directions to develop from new Michigan State University-Dickson Mounds Museum excavations are questions regarding the role that the 143 subadults interred in the …
Infants, Mothers, and Gendered Space in a Mississippian Village
This paper discusses a unique structure known as House 1 from the Hunze-Evans village site (23CG8) in Southeast Missouri as a small step toward addressing a dearth of infant-focused research in pre-Columbian North America in general, and within the Mississippian cultural tradition in particular. House 1 has previously been considered as a women’s special-use structure, and a review of archaeological and ethnohistoric sources regarding Mississippi…
Women's Participation in Prehistoric Warfare
Considerations of Native American warriorhood are likely to conjure images of male-bodied, masculine individuals. While the majority of formally recognized warriors may have indeed fit this mould, it is also true that female-bodied/feminine warriors have been historically documented in many places, including North America. Further, even in cases where women were not formally recognized as such, it seems likely that they played offensive and defen…
Ancient history and new beginnings
Creation of deathscapes is integral to human place-making and the construction of our past, present, and future. As people practice mortuary rituals and related behaviours, space and time are conflated as they engage with spatial, temporal, and ideological aspects of the landscape, existing deathscapes, and ritual objects. Migration episodes offer an important spatio-temporal context for examining the construction of deathscape, and at the same t…
Death at distance
Drawing on literatures on mobility and memory, I present a theoretical and interpretive reframing of skeletal taphonomy and mortuary process previously reported for a precontact Oneota cemetery in the North American midcontinent. Most burials here were single inhumations, with individuals apparently interred promptly after death. Others were placed in graves containing multiple individuals who died violently and whose bones bore taphonomic signat…
Identifying “Ina Jane Doe”
The 1992 cold case homicide of “Ina Jane Doe” illustrates how an interdisciplinary team worked to identify the decedent using a combined approach of skeletal re-analysis, updated forensic art informed by anthropologists’ input, archival research, and forensic investigative genetic genealogy. The original forensic art for “Ina Jane Doe” showed an over-pathologization of skeletal features and an inaccurate hairstyle; however, the case gained notori…
Archaeology (4 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (2 works) · Art (2 works)