K Godde
Biographic Data
| ID | 49332 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Godde |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Godde |
| SIGNATURE | GODDE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of La Verne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7888-2945 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Who the Plague Chose: Exploring Intersecting Social Risk in Black Death Mortality
Frailty and Mortality in Historic Americans: The Relationship Between Sex, Social Race, Health, and Survival
The study of human skeletal remains from historic contexts is uniquely positioned to explore inequality over time by linking the underlying sociocultural factors that enforce marginalization with lived experiences and health outcomes. We analyzed mortality rates among historic individuals of low socioeconomic status from a documented human skeletal collection, to examine how culture and identity become biologically embodied. Because pre-existing …
Expanding the Cure: The impact of course-based undergraduate research experiences across natural and social sciences
Introduction Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) are high-impact learning practices that replace the traditional apprenticeship model and can increase learning gains in diverse groups. We examined CUREs across disciplines (including the social and natural sciences) to evaluate performance at a Hispanic-Serving Institution. Methods We administered five instruments, including the CURE Survey of Course Elements, CURE Survey of Op…
Structural Inequity and Socioeconomic Status Link to Osteoporosis Diagnosis in a Population-Based Cohort of Middle-Older-Age Americans
Socioeconomic status (SES) is an important social determinant of health inequities that has been linked to chronic conditions, including osteoporosis, but research tends to focus on socioeconomic disadvantage rather than how socioeconomic advantage may facilitate these inequities. This study accounts for structural inequities and assesses the relationship between early-life and later-life SES, and risk of osteoporosis diagnosis. Data come from th…
The impact of early childhood stressors on later growth in medieval and postmedieval London
This research examined the relationship between linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) and stature in medieval and postmedieval London cemeteries to determine whether individuals with LEH in their permanent dentition also exhibited shorter stature. Pathological and metric data for 87 adult individuals from the medieval East Smithfield Black Death cemetery and 136 adult individuals from the postmedieval St. Bride's Lower Churchyard Cemetery were used in t…
An epidemiological approach to the analysis of cribra orbitalia as an indicator of health status and mortality in medieval and post‐medieval London under a model of parasitic infection
OBJECTIVES: Many individuals living in medieval and post-medieval London suffered issues with sanitation, food insecurity, infectious disease, and widespread exposure to parasites from a multitude of sources, causing increased risk of death for many inhabitants. We examine this stressful environment and its relationship with various demographic and temporal dimensions, using cribra orbitalia (CO) as an indicator of stress, to model an increased r…
A re-evaluation of Kulubnarti: A synthesis of the osteoarchaeological evidence
The medieval Nubian cemeteries at Kulubnarti (R and S) have greatly impacted bioarchaeological knowledge. Recent dating of the cemeteries showed they are contemporaries, contrary to prior conclusions that the R cemetery was later in date. Four lines of evidence used to argue for socio-economic status (SES) differences between the cemeteries in the literature are evaluated: (1 and 2) architecture of houses/churches, (3) age-at-death distributions …
Survival analysis of the Black Death: Social inequality of women and the perils of life and death in Medieval London
OBJECTIVES: Described as an indiscriminate killer by many chroniclers, the Black Death descended on London during the 14th century. To best understand the pattern of transmission among demographic groups, models should include multiple demographic and health covariates concurrently, something rarely done when examining Black Death, but implemented in this study to identify which demographic groups had a higher susceptibility. Female predispositio…
Ancient Egyptian health: The prevalence of anemia at the origins of agriculture and state level society
Ancient Egyptians experienced a vast increase in population size following the Neolithic Revolution. Nomadic hunter-gatherer groups gradually adopted agriculture as their primary food subsistence strategy. Analyses of human societies shifting from foragers to farmers have provided evidence which suggests this transition is linked with an increase in disease and allostatic load. This paper presents an examination of cribra orbitalia and porotic hy…
A new analysis interpreting Nilotic relationships and peopling of the Nile Valley
Sex estimation from cranial morphological traits: Use of the methods across American Indians, modern North Americans, and ancient Egyptians
A multifaceted analysis of social stressors and chronic inflammation
Chronic stress has been linked to negative health outcomes, including increased inflammation, which can be measured by high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (CRP). Prior research has focused almost exclusively on relationships between individual social and demographic stressors and CRP. The objective of this study is to assess the role of multiple potential stressors simultaneously to determine which key stressors are related to risk of high CRP, g…
Entheseal changes and demographic/health indicators in the upper extremity of modern Americans: Associations with age and physical activity
The purpose of this study is to further the understanding of the relationship between age and entheseal changes by using trends in living Americans compared to skeletal remains of modern Americans, and applying the knowledge to the bioarchaeological record. Documentation of age, activity level, body mass index, stature, and body mass was combined with entheseal change scores gathered from the upper extremity to statistically test the relationship…
Evaluating Nubian Population Structure from Cranial Nonmetric Traits: Gene Flow, Genetic Drift, and Population History of the Nubian Nile Valley
Paleolithic archaeological and skeletal remains from the Nile Valley have yielded a complex picture of life along the river. Sociocultural and sociopolitical events during this time frame shaped population structure, while gene flow and genetic drift further developed it. In this study, we took a population genetics approach to modeling Nubian biological relationships in an effort to describe how an accumulation of events formed Nubian population…
Modeling senescence changes of the pubic symphysis in historic I talian populations: A comparison of the R ostock and forensic approaches to aging using transition analysis
Age‐related anatomical changes to the surface of the pubic symphysis are well‐documented in the literature. However, aligning these morphological changes with chronological age has proven problematic, often resulting in biased age estimates. Statistical modeling provides an avenue for forensic anthropologists and bioarchaeologists to increase the accuracy of traditional aging methods. Locating appropriate samples to use as a basis for modeling ag…
Secular trends in cranial morphological traits: A socioeconomic perspective of change and sexual dimorphism in North Americans 1849–1960
The patterns in the data here reflect those found in other areas of the skeleton, namely height, as regards to secular trends. These findings can be extended to stature and cranial changes that parallel socioeconomic trends during the Industrial Revolution, antebellum period and after
Comparability of multiple data types from the bering strait region: Cranial and dental metrics and nonmetrics, mtDNA, and Y‐chromosome DNA
Different data types have previously been shown to have the same microevolutionary patterns in worldwide data sets. However, peopling of the New World studies have shown a difference in migration paths and timings using multiple types of data, spurring research to understand why this is the case. This study was designed to test the degree of similarity in evolutionary patterns by using cranial and dental metric and nonmetric data, along with Y‐ch…
An Examination of the Spatial–Temporal Isolation Model in a Nilotic Population: Variation across Space and Time in Nubians Using Cranial Discrete Traits
Nubian biological evolution has come under much scrutiny in preceding years with strong opinions dividing scholars' beliefs as to how it occurred. A new approach is necessary to elucidate subtleties of their population structure in order to shed light on the complex subject. This study employs a spatial–temporal model in an effort to test if in situ biological evolution was the mechanism for biological change. Biological distance was calculated f…
Age‐at‐death estimation in an Italian historical sample: A test of the Suchey‐Brooks and transition analysis methods
A growing body of research is demonstrating increased accuracy in aging from a relatively new method, transition analysis. Although transition analysis was developed for paleodemographic research, a majority of subsequent studies have been in the forensic arena, with very little work in bioarchaeological contexts. Using the Suchey‐Brooks pubic symphysis phases, scored on a target sample of historic Italians from the island of Sardinia, we compare…
An examination of Nubian and Egyptian biological distances: Support for biological diffusion or in situ development?
Who were the Meroites? A biological investigation into the Nubian post-hiatus group
Scholars have identified a hiatus in the archaeological record of Lower Nubia that spans approximately 1000 years. This interval may represent a desertion of Lower Nubia by its inhabitants. Evidence of occupation did not reappear in the area until the Meroitic time period. However, the identity of the returning people has been the subject of speculation. In order to determine who the Meroites of Lower Nubia were, 20 cranial non-metric traits were…
An examination of proposed causes of auditory exostoses
Auditory exostoses are a discrete trait, the presence of which may be a product of environmental factors. Water exposure is believed to be associated with the trait's appearance, which has allowed anthropologists to hypothesise about past population subsistence strategies. However, some scholars still contend that water exposure is not necessarily the precipitating factor for its development. This study examined 744 Nubians for exostoses from the…
Brief communication: Skeletal biology past and present: Are we moving in the right direction
In 1982, Spencer's edited volume A History of American Physical Anthropology: 1930–1980 allowed numerous authors to document the state of our science, including a critical examination of skeletal biology. Some authors argued that the first 50 years of skeletal biology were characterized by the descriptive‐historical approach with little regard for processual problems and that technological and statistical analyses were not rooted in theory. In an…
Comparability of multiple data types from the bering strait region: Cranial and dental metrics and nonmetrics, mtDNA, and Y‐chromosome DNA
Different data types have previously been shown to have the same microevolutionary patterns in worldwide data sets. However, peopling of the New World studies have shown a difference in migration paths and timings using multiple types of data, spurring research to understand why this is the case. This study was designed to test the degree of similarity in evolutionary patterns by using cranial and dental metric and nonmetric data, along with Y‐ch…
Age‐at‐death estimation in an Italian historical sample: A test of the Suchey‐Brooks and transition analysis methods
A growing body of research is demonstrating increased accuracy in aging from a relatively new method, transition analysis. Although transition analysis was developed for paleodemographic research, a majority of subsequent studies have been in the forensic arena, with very little work in bioarchaeological contexts. Using the Suchey‐Brooks pubic symphysis phases, scored on a target sample of historic Italians from the island of Sardinia, we compare…
Survival analysis of the Black Death: Social inequality of women and the perils of life and death in Medieval London
OBJECTIVES: Described as an indiscriminate killer by many chroniclers, the Black Death descended on London during the 14th century. To best understand the pattern of transmission among demographic groups, models should include multiple demographic and health covariates concurrently, something rarely done when examining Black Death, but implemented in this study to identify which demographic groups had a higher susceptibility. Female predispositio…
An epidemiological approach to the analysis of cribra orbitalia as an indicator of health status and mortality in medieval and post‐medieval London under a model of parasitic infection
OBJECTIVES: Many individuals living in medieval and post-medieval London suffered issues with sanitation, food insecurity, infectious disease, and widespread exposure to parasites from a multitude of sources, causing increased risk of death for many inhabitants. We examine this stressful environment and its relationship with various demographic and temporal dimensions, using cribra orbitalia (CO) as an indicator of stress, to model an increased r…
Modeling senescence changes of the pubic symphysis in historic I talian populations: A comparison of the R ostock and forensic approaches to aging using transition analysis
Age‐related anatomical changes to the surface of the pubic symphysis are well‐documented in the literature. However, aligning these morphological changes with chronological age has proven problematic, often resulting in biased age estimates. Statistical modeling provides an avenue for forensic anthropologists and bioarchaeologists to increase the accuracy of traditional aging methods. Locating appropriate samples to use as a basis for modeling ag…
An examination of proposed causes of auditory exostoses
Auditory exostoses are a discrete trait, the presence of which may be a product of environmental factors. Water exposure is believed to be associated with the trait's appearance, which has allowed anthropologists to hypothesise about past population subsistence strategies. However, some scholars still contend that water exposure is not necessarily the precipitating factor for its development. This study examined 744 Nubians for exostoses from the…
Entheseal changes and demographic/health indicators in the upper extremity of modern Americans: Associations with age and physical activity
The purpose of this study is to further the understanding of the relationship between age and entheseal changes by using trends in living Americans compared to skeletal remains of modern Americans, and applying the knowledge to the bioarchaeological record. Documentation of age, activity level, body mass index, stature, and body mass was combined with entheseal change scores gathered from the upper extremity to statistically test the relationship…
Evaluating Nubian Population Structure from Cranial Nonmetric Traits: Gene Flow, Genetic Drift, and Population History of the Nubian Nile Valley
Paleolithic archaeological and skeletal remains from the Nile Valley have yielded a complex picture of life along the river. Sociocultural and sociopolitical events during this time frame shaped population structure, while gene flow and genetic drift further developed it. In this study, we took a population genetics approach to modeling Nubian biological relationships in an effort to describe how an accumulation of events formed Nubian population…
Who were the Meroites? A biological investigation into the Nubian post-hiatus group
Scholars have identified a hiatus in the archaeological record of Lower Nubia that spans approximately 1000 years. This interval may represent a desertion of Lower Nubia by its inhabitants. Evidence of occupation did not reappear in the area until the Meroitic time period. However, the identity of the returning people has been the subject of speculation. In order to determine who the Meroites of Lower Nubia were, 20 cranial non-metric traits were…
An Examination of the Spatial–Temporal Isolation Model in a Nilotic Population: Variation across Space and Time in Nubians Using Cranial Discrete Traits
Nubian biological evolution has come under much scrutiny in preceding years with strong opinions dividing scholars' beliefs as to how it occurred. A new approach is necessary to elucidate subtleties of their population structure in order to shed light on the complex subject. This study employs a spatial–temporal model in an effort to test if in situ biological evolution was the mechanism for biological change. Biological distance was calculated f…
Brief communication: Skeletal biology past and present: Are we moving in the right direction
In 1982, Spencer's edited volume A History of American Physical Anthropology: 1930–1980 allowed numerous authors to document the state of our science, including a critical examination of skeletal biology. Some authors argued that the first 50 years of skeletal biology were characterized by the descriptive‐historical approach with little regard for processual problems and that technological and statistical analyses were not rooted in theory. In an…
The impact of early childhood stressors on later growth in medieval and postmedieval London
This research examined the relationship between linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) and stature in medieval and postmedieval London cemeteries to determine whether individuals with LEH in their permanent dentition also exhibited shorter stature. Pathological and metric data for 87 adult individuals from the medieval East Smithfield Black Death cemetery and 136 adult individuals from the postmedieval St. Bride's Lower Churchyard Cemetery were used in t…
A re-evaluation of Kulubnarti: A synthesis of the osteoarchaeological evidence
The medieval Nubian cemeteries at Kulubnarti (R and S) have greatly impacted bioarchaeological knowledge. Recent dating of the cemeteries showed they are contemporaries, contrary to prior conclusions that the R cemetery was later in date. Four lines of evidence used to argue for socio-economic status (SES) differences between the cemeteries in the literature are evaluated: (1 and 2) architecture of houses/churches, (3) age-at-death distributions …
Brief communication: Skeletal biology past and present: Are we moving in the right direction
In 1982, Spencer's edited volume A History of American Physical Anthropology: 1930–1980 allowed numerous authors to document the state of our science, including a critical examination of skeletal biology. Some authors argued that the first 50 years of skeletal biology were characterized by the descriptive‐historical approach with little regard for processual problems and that technological and statistical analyses were not rooted in theory. In an…
An examination of Nubian and Egyptian biological distances: Support for biological diffusion or in situ development?
Who were the Meroites? A biological investigation into the Nubian post-hiatus group
Scholars have identified a hiatus in the archaeological record of Lower Nubia that spans approximately 1000 years. This interval may represent a desertion of Lower Nubia by its inhabitants. Evidence of occupation did not reappear in the area until the Meroitic time period. However, the identity of the returning people has been the subject of speculation. In order to determine who the Meroites of Lower Nubia were, 20 cranial non-metric traits were…
An examination of proposed causes of auditory exostoses
Auditory exostoses are a discrete trait, the presence of which may be a product of environmental factors. Water exposure is believed to be associated with the trait's appearance, which has allowed anthropologists to hypothesise about past population subsistence strategies. However, some scholars still contend that water exposure is not necessarily the precipitating factor for its development. This study examined 744 Nubians for exostoses from the…
Age‐at‐death estimation in an Italian historical sample: A test of the Suchey‐Brooks and transition analysis methods
A growing body of research is demonstrating increased accuracy in aging from a relatively new method, transition analysis. Although transition analysis was developed for paleodemographic research, a majority of subsequent studies have been in the forensic arena, with very little work in bioarchaeological contexts. Using the Suchey‐Brooks pubic symphysis phases, scored on a target sample of historic Italians from the island of Sardinia, we compare…
An Examination of the Spatial–Temporal Isolation Model in a Nilotic Population: Variation across Space and Time in Nubians Using Cranial Discrete Traits
Nubian biological evolution has come under much scrutiny in preceding years with strong opinions dividing scholars' beliefs as to how it occurred. A new approach is necessary to elucidate subtleties of their population structure in order to shed light on the complex subject. This study employs a spatial–temporal model in an effort to test if in situ biological evolution was the mechanism for biological change. Biological distance was calculated f…
Secular trends in cranial morphological traits: A socioeconomic perspective of change and sexual dimorphism in North Americans 1849–1960
The patterns in the data here reflect those found in other areas of the skeleton, namely height, as regards to secular trends. These findings can be extended to stature and cranial changes that parallel socioeconomic trends during the Industrial Revolution, antebellum period and after
Comparability of multiple data types from the bering strait region: Cranial and dental metrics and nonmetrics, mtDNA, and Y‐chromosome DNA
Different data types have previously been shown to have the same microevolutionary patterns in worldwide data sets. However, peopling of the New World studies have shown a difference in migration paths and timings using multiple types of data, spurring research to understand why this is the case. This study was designed to test the degree of similarity in evolutionary patterns by using cranial and dental metric and nonmetric data, along with Y‐ch…
Modeling senescence changes of the pubic symphysis in historic I talian populations: A comparison of the R ostock and forensic approaches to aging using transition analysis
Age‐related anatomical changes to the surface of the pubic symphysis are well‐documented in the literature. However, aligning these morphological changes with chronological age has proven problematic, often resulting in biased age estimates. Statistical modeling provides an avenue for forensic anthropologists and bioarchaeologists to increase the accuracy of traditional aging methods. Locating appropriate samples to use as a basis for modeling ag…
Evaluating Nubian Population Structure from Cranial Nonmetric Traits: Gene Flow, Genetic Drift, and Population History of the Nubian Nile Valley
Paleolithic archaeological and skeletal remains from the Nile Valley have yielded a complex picture of life along the river. Sociocultural and sociopolitical events during this time frame shaped population structure, while gene flow and genetic drift further developed it. In this study, we took a population genetics approach to modeling Nubian biological relationships in an effort to describe how an accumulation of events formed Nubian population…
A new analysis interpreting Nilotic relationships and peopling of the Nile Valley
Sex estimation from cranial morphological traits: Use of the methods across American Indians, modern North Americans, and ancient Egyptians
A multifaceted analysis of social stressors and chronic inflammation
Chronic stress has been linked to negative health outcomes, including increased inflammation, which can be measured by high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (CRP). Prior research has focused almost exclusively on relationships between individual social and demographic stressors and CRP. The objective of this study is to assess the role of multiple potential stressors simultaneously to determine which key stressors are related to risk of high CRP, g…
Entheseal changes and demographic/health indicators in the upper extremity of modern Americans: Associations with age and physical activity
The purpose of this study is to further the understanding of the relationship between age and entheseal changes by using trends in living Americans compared to skeletal remains of modern Americans, and applying the knowledge to the bioarchaeological record. Documentation of age, activity level, body mass index, stature, and body mass was combined with entheseal change scores gathered from the upper extremity to statistically test the relationship…
Ancient Egyptian health: The prevalence of anemia at the origins of agriculture and state level society
Ancient Egyptians experienced a vast increase in population size following the Neolithic Revolution. Nomadic hunter-gatherer groups gradually adopted agriculture as their primary food subsistence strategy. Analyses of human societies shifting from foragers to farmers have provided evidence which suggests this transition is linked with an increase in disease and allostatic load. This paper presents an examination of cribra orbitalia and porotic hy…
Survival analysis of the Black Death: Social inequality of women and the perils of life and death in Medieval London
OBJECTIVES: Described as an indiscriminate killer by many chroniclers, the Black Death descended on London during the 14th century. To best understand the pattern of transmission among demographic groups, models should include multiple demographic and health covariates concurrently, something rarely done when examining Black Death, but implemented in this study to identify which demographic groups had a higher susceptibility. Female predispositio…
An epidemiological approach to the analysis of cribra orbitalia as an indicator of health status and mortality in medieval and post‐medieval London under a model of parasitic infection
OBJECTIVES: Many individuals living in medieval and post-medieval London suffered issues with sanitation, food insecurity, infectious disease, and widespread exposure to parasites from a multitude of sources, causing increased risk of death for many inhabitants. We examine this stressful environment and its relationship with various demographic and temporal dimensions, using cribra orbitalia (CO) as an indicator of stress, to model an increased r…
A re-evaluation of Kulubnarti: A synthesis of the osteoarchaeological evidence
The medieval Nubian cemeteries at Kulubnarti (R and S) have greatly impacted bioarchaeological knowledge. Recent dating of the cemeteries showed they are contemporaries, contrary to prior conclusions that the R cemetery was later in date. Four lines of evidence used to argue for socio-economic status (SES) differences between the cemeteries in the literature are evaluated: (1 and 2) architecture of houses/churches, (3) age-at-death distributions …
The impact of early childhood stressors on later growth in medieval and postmedieval London
This research examined the relationship between linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) and stature in medieval and postmedieval London cemeteries to determine whether individuals with LEH in their permanent dentition also exhibited shorter stature. Pathological and metric data for 87 adult individuals from the medieval East Smithfield Black Death cemetery and 136 adult individuals from the postmedieval St. Bride's Lower Churchyard Cemetery were used in t…
Structural Inequity and Socioeconomic Status Link to Osteoporosis Diagnosis in a Population-Based Cohort of Middle-Older-Age Americans
Socioeconomic status (SES) is an important social determinant of health inequities that has been linked to chronic conditions, including osteoporosis, but research tends to focus on socioeconomic disadvantage rather than how socioeconomic advantage may facilitate these inequities. This study accounts for structural inequities and assesses the relationship between early-life and later-life SES, and risk of osteoporosis diagnosis. Data come from th…
Expanding the Cure: The impact of course-based undergraduate research experiences across natural and social sciences
Introduction Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) are high-impact learning practices that replace the traditional apprenticeship model and can increase learning gains in diverse groups. We examined CUREs across disciplines (including the social and natural sciences) to evaluate performance at a Hispanic-Serving Institution. Methods We administered five instruments, including the CURE Survey of Course Elements, CURE Survey of Op…
Who the Plague Chose: Exploring Intersecting Social Risk in Black Death Mortality
Frailty and Mortality in Historic Americans: The Relationship Between Sex, Social Race, Health, and Survival
The study of human skeletal remains from historic contexts is uniquely positioned to explore inequality over time by linking the underlying sociocultural factors that enforce marginalization with lived experiences and health outcomes. We analyzed mortality rates among historic individuals of low socioeconomic status from a documented human skeletal collection, to examine how culture and identity become biologically embodied. Because pre-existing …
Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (19 works) · Demography (16 works) · Forensic and Genetic Research (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · Biology (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Population (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Paleopathology and ancient diseases (7 works)