B Mazza
Biographic Data
| ID | 33185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Mazza |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Mazza |
| SIGNATURE | MAZZA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3474-4660 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Sex Differences in Bilateral Asymmetry Among Hunter‐Gatherers From the Lower Paraná River Wetlands (Argentina)
Exploring dental macrowear in a Sambaqui population from Encosta da Lagoa (southern Brazil): Variation patterns and an extreme case of molar wear verticalization
Diet and Oral Health in Pre‐Columbian South America: A Comparative Study of Hunter‐Gatherers and Horticulturalists From the Lower Paraná Wetland (Argentina)
The relationship between diet and oral health has long been explored in archaeology, with significant differences observed between populations with distinct subsistence strategies. This study examines the prevalence of dental caries, antemortem tooth loss (AMTL), periapical lesions, dental calculus, and occlusal wear in hunter‐gatherer and horticulturalist populations from the Lower Paraná wetland (southern La Plata Basin, Argentina). Our primary…
Life and Death During Childhood in Late Holocene Hunter-Gatherers from the Lower Paraná Wetlands (Argentina)
Record of carnivorous mammals in pre-Hispanic hunter-gatherer sites in the southern extreme of the La Plata basin (South America): Taphonomic and Cultural Implications
Analyzing entheseal changes in commingled human remains from Mesolithic and Neolithic periods in Portugal
The analysis of entheseal changes requires knowing the biological profile of the sample analyzed, given that, mainly, the sex and age of the individuals influence the prevalence and degrees of the entheseal features. However, the bioarcheological record of several past populations presents isolated and commingled human bone remains, which constrains the estimation of such data. In this work, we propose to analyze the entheseal changes with the Co…
Biological distances between Late Holocene hunter‐gatherers from the lower Paraná wetland (Argentina)
Introduction This study assesses the biological affinity between Late Holocene hunter‐gatherers that inhabited the region of the lower Paraná wetland (Argentina) at the end of the Late Holocene (1800–700 years BP). Methods Cranial nonmetric traits were registered in 159 adult individuals of both sexes. Biodistances were estimated between environmental and archaeological units through Smith's Mean Measure of Divergence, Mahalanobis distance, multi…
Intergenerational transmission of ancestry information in a mid-size city in Argentina
We examined the self-reported family trees of 288 adult Argentines from a mid-size city near Buenos Aires to evaluate how intergenerational transmission of ancestry information matched (or not) anonymized estimates of continental-level genetic ancestry. Intergenerational transmission of ancestry information was inferred from the content of the anonymized family trees, and continental-level ancestries were inferred from genomic information collect…
Crossing at y/our own peril: Biocultural boundary crossing in anthropology
Biocultural approaches in anthropology originated from a desire to dissolve the nature/culture divide that is entrenched in the discipline. Whereas biocultural approaches were born under the umbrella of medical anthropology, by the late 1990s, biology-centered approaches to bioculturalism had been mostly taken up by human biologists in biological anthropology. It was at this point that biology-inclined approaches began to gel into an informal int…
Hunter-gatherer's mortuary practices in artificial mounds of the lower Paraná River basin (Argentina): An approach through funerary taphonomy
Breastfeeding and weaning in Late Holocene hunter‐gatherers of the lower Paraná wetland, South America
Objective In this study, we analyze breastfeeding and weaning practices in pre‐Columbian complex hunter‐gatherers from the lower Paraná River basin (South America). Materials and Methods We carried out bone isotope analyses concerning δ 13 C in collagen and apatite, the spacing between both carbon sources and δ 15 N in a sample of 23 subadult and adult individuals of both sexes recovered from Late Holocene archaeological sites, ranging from 1665 …
Postcranial morphological variation between hunter‐gatherers and horticulturalists from the lower Paraná River Delta, Argentina
INTRODUCTION: Although pre-Hispanic hunter-gatherer and horticulturalist (known as Guaraní) societies from the lower Paraná River Delta (Argentina) presented differences in diet, pottery decoration, mortuary practices, and places of origin, differences in skeletal morphology between such groups have never been systematically explored. This work focuses on variations in humeral and femoral external linear measurements and derived structural proper…
Entheseal changes among late Holocene hunter-gatherers from the southern extreme of La Plata basin (Argentina)
Cambios entésicos en guaraníes pre-hispánicos del Delta inferior del Paraná
El objetivo de este trabajo es caracterizar los cambios entésicos de la población horticultora (guaraní) del Delta inferior del río Paraná y compararlos con aquellos de los cazadores-recolectores que habitaron la región hacia fines del Holoceno tardío. Para esto se analizó la robusticidad de las entesis de húmeros, fémures y tibias. Los resultados señalan una amplia variabilidad de cambios entésicos entre los guaraníes que pueden corresponderse c…
Enfermedad degenerativa articular en el esqueleto apendicular de cazadores-recolectores del sur de la cuenca del Plata
Degenerative joint disease (DJD) is one of the commonest bone pathologies in past and present societies. It is characterized by fragmentation of the synovial joint cartilage, whose etiology is related to individual ́s intrinsic and extrinsic factors. The objective of this work is to explore DJD prevalence in the appendicular skeleton of late Holocene hunter-gathers from the southern point of La Plata Basin (Argentina). In addition, this work eval…
Anthropogenic modifications to archaeological human bones from the lower Paraná River basin (Argentina)
Auditory Exostoses in Pre-Hispanic Populations of the Lower Paraná Wetlands, Argentina
Auditory exostosis (AE) has been characterised from the medical and anthropological perspectives as an adaptive biological response to repeated immersion in cold water as well as exposure to cold environmental temperatures and wind chill. At the archaeological level, the highest prevalence has been found in societies living in coastal environments in areas located at 30-45° north or south latitude with a subsistence pattern based on fishing and m…
Colecciones antiguas, datos nuevos: Primeros resultados del análisis de las colecciones bioarqueológicas del Humedal del Paraná Inferior
Durante fines del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX tuvieron lugar varias exploraciones y excavaciones en sitios arqueológicos del humedal del Paraná inferior, originando en consecuencia un gran acervo de materiales bioarqueológicos, entre otros, depositados hoy en día en el Museo de la Plata de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata y en el Museo Etnográfico de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Si bien algunos de los resultados derivados de aquello…
Entheseal changes among late Holocene hunter-gatherers from the southern extreme of La Plata basin (Argentina)
Anthropogenic modifications to archaeological human bones from the lower Paraná River basin (Argentina)
Colecciones antiguas, datos nuevos: Primeros resultados del análisis de las colecciones bioarqueológicas del Humedal del Paraná Inferior
Durante fines del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX tuvieron lugar varias exploraciones y excavaciones en sitios arqueológicos del humedal del Paraná inferior, originando en consecuencia un gran acervo de materiales bioarqueológicos, entre otros, depositados hoy en día en el Museo de la Plata de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata y en el Museo Etnográfico de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Si bien algunos de los resultados derivados de aquello…
Crossing at y/our own peril: Biocultural boundary crossing in anthropology
Biocultural approaches in anthropology originated from a desire to dissolve the nature/culture divide that is entrenched in the discipline. Whereas biocultural approaches were born under the umbrella of medical anthropology, by the late 1990s, biology-centered approaches to bioculturalism had been mostly taken up by human biologists in biological anthropology. It was at this point that biology-inclined approaches began to gel into an informal int…
Postcranial morphological variation between hunter‐gatherers and horticulturalists from the lower Paraná River Delta, Argentina
INTRODUCTION: Although pre-Hispanic hunter-gatherer and horticulturalist (known as Guaraní) societies from the lower Paraná River Delta (Argentina) presented differences in diet, pottery decoration, mortuary practices, and places of origin, differences in skeletal morphology between such groups have never been systematically explored. This work focuses on variations in humeral and femoral external linear measurements and derived structural proper…
Auditory Exostoses in Pre-Hispanic Populations of the Lower Paraná Wetlands, Argentina
Auditory exostosis (AE) has been characterised from the medical and anthropological perspectives as an adaptive biological response to repeated immersion in cold water as well as exposure to cold environmental temperatures and wind chill. At the archaeological level, the highest prevalence has been found in societies living in coastal environments in areas located at 30-45° north or south latitude with a subsistence pattern based on fishing and m…
Breastfeeding and weaning in Late Holocene hunter‐gatherers of the lower Paraná wetland, South America
Objective In this study, we analyze breastfeeding and weaning practices in pre‐Columbian complex hunter‐gatherers from the lower Paraná River basin (South America). Materials and Methods We carried out bone isotope analyses concerning δ 13 C in collagen and apatite, the spacing between both carbon sources and δ 15 N in a sample of 23 subadult and adult individuals of both sexes recovered from Late Holocene archaeological sites, ranging from 1665 …
Cambios entésicos en guaraníes pre-hispánicos del Delta inferior del Paraná
El objetivo de este trabajo es caracterizar los cambios entésicos de la población horticultora (guaraní) del Delta inferior del río Paraná y compararlos con aquellos de los cazadores-recolectores que habitaron la región hacia fines del Holoceno tardío. Para esto se analizó la robusticidad de las entesis de húmeros, fémures y tibias. Los resultados señalan una amplia variabilidad de cambios entésicos entre los guaraníes que pueden corresponderse c…
Enfermedad degenerativa articular en el esqueleto apendicular de cazadores-recolectores del sur de la cuenca del Plata
Degenerative joint disease (DJD) is one of the commonest bone pathologies in past and present societies. It is characterized by fragmentation of the synovial joint cartilage, whose etiology is related to individual ́s intrinsic and extrinsic factors. The objective of this work is to explore DJD prevalence in the appendicular skeleton of late Holocene hunter-gathers from the southern point of La Plata Basin (Argentina). In addition, this work eval…
Hunter-gatherer's mortuary practices in artificial mounds of the lower Paraná River basin (Argentina): An approach through funerary taphonomy
Analyzing entheseal changes in commingled human remains from Mesolithic and Neolithic periods in Portugal
The analysis of entheseal changes requires knowing the biological profile of the sample analyzed, given that, mainly, the sex and age of the individuals influence the prevalence and degrees of the entheseal features. However, the bioarcheological record of several past populations presents isolated and commingled human bone remains, which constrains the estimation of such data. In this work, we propose to analyze the entheseal changes with the Co…
Colecciones antiguas, datos nuevos: Primeros resultados del análisis de las colecciones bioarqueológicas del Humedal del Paraná Inferior
Durante fines del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX tuvieron lugar varias exploraciones y excavaciones en sitios arqueológicos del humedal del Paraná inferior, originando en consecuencia un gran acervo de materiales bioarqueológicos, entre otros, depositados hoy en día en el Museo de la Plata de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata y en el Museo Etnográfico de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Si bien algunos de los resultados derivados de aquello…
Auditory Exostoses in Pre-Hispanic Populations of the Lower Paraná Wetlands, Argentina
Auditory exostosis (AE) has been characterised from the medical and anthropological perspectives as an adaptive biological response to repeated immersion in cold water as well as exposure to cold environmental temperatures and wind chill. At the archaeological level, the highest prevalence has been found in societies living in coastal environments in areas located at 30-45° north or south latitude with a subsistence pattern based on fishing and m…
Anthropogenic modifications to archaeological human bones from the lower Paraná River basin (Argentina)
Postcranial morphological variation between hunter‐gatherers and horticulturalists from the lower Paraná River Delta, Argentina
INTRODUCTION: Although pre-Hispanic hunter-gatherer and horticulturalist (known as Guaraní) societies from the lower Paraná River Delta (Argentina) presented differences in diet, pottery decoration, mortuary practices, and places of origin, differences in skeletal morphology between such groups have never been systematically explored. This work focuses on variations in humeral and femoral external linear measurements and derived structural proper…
Entheseal changes among late Holocene hunter-gatherers from the southern extreme of La Plata basin (Argentina)
Cambios entésicos en guaraníes pre-hispánicos del Delta inferior del Paraná
El objetivo de este trabajo es caracterizar los cambios entésicos de la población horticultora (guaraní) del Delta inferior del río Paraná y compararlos con aquellos de los cazadores-recolectores que habitaron la región hacia fines del Holoceno tardío. Para esto se analizó la robusticidad de las entesis de húmeros, fémures y tibias. Los resultados señalan una amplia variabilidad de cambios entésicos entre los guaraníes que pueden corresponderse c…
Enfermedad degenerativa articular en el esqueleto apendicular de cazadores-recolectores del sur de la cuenca del Plata
Degenerative joint disease (DJD) is one of the commonest bone pathologies in past and present societies. It is characterized by fragmentation of the synovial joint cartilage, whose etiology is related to individual ́s intrinsic and extrinsic factors. The objective of this work is to explore DJD prevalence in the appendicular skeleton of late Holocene hunter-gathers from the southern point of La Plata Basin (Argentina). In addition, this work eval…
Hunter-gatherer's mortuary practices in artificial mounds of the lower Paraná River basin (Argentina): An approach through funerary taphonomy
Breastfeeding and weaning in Late Holocene hunter‐gatherers of the lower Paraná wetland, South America
Objective In this study, we analyze breastfeeding and weaning practices in pre‐Columbian complex hunter‐gatherers from the lower Paraná River basin (South America). Materials and Methods We carried out bone isotope analyses concerning δ 13 C in collagen and apatite, the spacing between both carbon sources and δ 15 N in a sample of 23 subadult and adult individuals of both sexes recovered from Late Holocene archaeological sites, ranging from 1665 …
Crossing at y/our own peril: Biocultural boundary crossing in anthropology
Biocultural approaches in anthropology originated from a desire to dissolve the nature/culture divide that is entrenched in the discipline. Whereas biocultural approaches were born under the umbrella of medical anthropology, by the late 1990s, biology-centered approaches to bioculturalism had been mostly taken up by human biologists in biological anthropology. It was at this point that biology-inclined approaches began to gel into an informal int…
Biological distances between Late Holocene hunter‐gatherers from the lower Paraná wetland (Argentina)
Introduction This study assesses the biological affinity between Late Holocene hunter‐gatherers that inhabited the region of the lower Paraná wetland (Argentina) at the end of the Late Holocene (1800–700 years BP). Methods Cranial nonmetric traits were registered in 159 adult individuals of both sexes. Biodistances were estimated between environmental and archaeological units through Smith's Mean Measure of Divergence, Mahalanobis distance, multi…
Intergenerational transmission of ancestry information in a mid-size city in Argentina
We examined the self-reported family trees of 288 adult Argentines from a mid-size city near Buenos Aires to evaluate how intergenerational transmission of ancestry information matched (or not) anonymized estimates of continental-level genetic ancestry. Intergenerational transmission of ancestry information was inferred from the content of the anonymized family trees, and continental-level ancestries were inferred from genomic information collect…
Analyzing entheseal changes in commingled human remains from Mesolithic and Neolithic periods in Portugal
The analysis of entheseal changes requires knowing the biological profile of the sample analyzed, given that, mainly, the sex and age of the individuals influence the prevalence and degrees of the entheseal features. However, the bioarcheological record of several past populations presents isolated and commingled human bone remains, which constrains the estimation of such data. In this work, we propose to analyze the entheseal changes with the Co…
Diet and Oral Health in Pre‐Columbian South America: A Comparative Study of Hunter‐Gatherers and Horticulturalists From the Lower Paraná Wetland (Argentina)
The relationship between diet and oral health has long been explored in archaeology, with significant differences observed between populations with distinct subsistence strategies. This study examines the prevalence of dental caries, antemortem tooth loss (AMTL), periapical lesions, dental calculus, and occlusal wear in hunter‐gatherer and horticulturalist populations from the Lower Paraná wetland (southern La Plata Basin, Argentina). Our primary…
Life and Death During Childhood in Late Holocene Hunter-Gatherers from the Lower Paraná Wetlands (Argentina)
Record of carnivorous mammals in pre-Hispanic hunter-gatherer sites in the southern extreme of the La Plata basin (South America): Taphonomic and Cultural Implications
Sex Differences in Bilateral Asymmetry Among Hunter‐Gatherers From the Lower Paraná River Wetlands (Argentina)
Exploring dental macrowear in a Sambaqui population from Encosta da Lagoa (southern Brazil): Variation patterns and an extreme case of molar wear verticalization
Geography (13 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (11 works) · Archaeology (10 works) · Biology (8 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (8 works) · Holocene (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Hunter-gatherer (5 works) · Wetland (5 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works)