K C Nystrom
Biographic Data
| ID | 84317 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K C Nystrom |
| GIVEN NAMES | K C |
| FAMILY NAME | Nystrom |
| SIGNATURE | NYSTROM K C |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY New Paltz |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0125-0944 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Liburnian lunches: New stable isotope data for the Iron Age community of Nadin‐Gradina, Croatia
The Iron Age in Central Europe is defined as a transformative time in local populations' lives including dietary patterns. Stable isotope analysis has become a valuable tool for investigating paleodietary and paleomobility patterns in ancient societies using samples of human and animal skeletal remains from individual burials. This is an isotopic study of collagen and apatite from Iron Age Liburian burials seventh to first century BC from Nadin‐G…
Mummy studies and the bioarchaeology of care
‘Place of Strong Men’
The Bioarchaeology of Structural Violence and Dissection in the 19th-Century United States
Structural violence is harm done to individuals or groups through the normalization of social inequalities in political-economic organization. Researchers working in both modern and prehistoric contexts focus on the lived experiences of individuals and the health disparities that arise from such violence. With this article, I seek to contribute to this literature by considering how skeletal evidence of dissection from the 19th-century United Stat…
Dental Health of Free Blacks in New York State during the Mid-19th Century
The current research will examine the frequency of carious teeth, periapical abscesses and ante-mortem tooth loss in the Newburgh Colored Burial Ground (1830-1870), a free black cemetery in Newburgh, New York. The Newburgh material is compared with skeletal samples from the New York African Burial Ground, New York State almshouses, a free black cemetery from Philadelphia and middle-class/upper-class European cemeteries. Although previous research…
Postmortem examinations and the embodiment of inequality in 19th century United States
Strontium isotopic reconstruction of the composition of an urban free black population from the 19th century United States
Dental evidence of congenital syphilis in a 19th century cemetery from the mid-hudson valley
The purpose of this communication is to provide a description of a pattern of enamel defects that are consistent with a diagnosis of congenital syphilis. While there is an abundance of literature documenting the skeletal manifestations of congenital syphilis, the description, and particularly the depiction, of the dental stigmata associated with this disease are rare in the paleopathological literature. This report describes enamel defects in the…
Chachapoya Mortuary Behavior: A Consideraron of Method and Meaning
The Chachapoya region of northern Perú is characterized by a remarkable range of mortuary customs whose nature is incompletely defined and interpreted.The focus of this paper is to consider a single aspect of Chachapoya mortuary behavior: the presence/ absence and method of mummification.Complex, anthropogenic mummy bundles have been recovered from the Laguna de los Cóndores while less well documented and described "cadavers" and bodies have been…
Trepanation in the Chachapoya region of northern Perú
This paper discusses trepanation frequency data from the Chachapoya region of the northern highlands of Perú. New data from three skeletal samples are presented: Kuelap, Laguna Huayabamba, and Los Pinchudos, as well as isolated crania housed at the Chachapoya Museo Instituto Nacional de Cultura. The vast majority of the trepanations are circular in shape, except for one individual exhibiting as many as three roughly square trepanations. Evidence …
Late Chachapoya population structure prior to Inka conquest
Archaeological and ethnohistorical documents suggest that the Chachapoya region was inhabited by a number of distinct sociopolitical groups that only united in the face of their common enemy, the Inka. The purpose of this research is to quantify the amount of internal genetic differentiation and levels of extraregional gene flow during the Late Chachapoya period, in order to obtain a better understanding of the genetic relationship between these …
The origin of the Juch'uypampa Cave mummies: Strontium isotope analysis of archaeological human remains from Bolivia
Trauma‐induced changes in diaphyseal cross‐sectional geometry in two elites from Copan, Honduras
This research utilized biplanar radiographs to estimate cross‐sectional biomechanical properties for the skeletal remains of two elite individuals from the Early Classic period (ca. AD 400–600) of Copan, Honduras: K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo' (Hunal Burial 95‐2), founder of the Early Classic Dynasty at Copan, and the primary female interment (Burial 37‐8) from the Motmot tomb. Both individuals survived severe blunt‐force insults to the right forearm. Gr…
Mortuary behaviour reconstruction through palaeoentomology: A case study from Chachapoya, Perú
This paper explores the contribution that applied forensic entomology can make to our understanding of prehistoric mortuary behaviour. Samples of insect remains were recovered from a mummy bundle that has been attributed to the Chachapoya people who occupied the northern highlands of Perú from ca. AD 800 to ca. AD 1532. The insects were identified to the family level and used to create a hypothetical timeline of post-mortem interval before the co…
Radiographic evaluation of two Early Classic elites from Copan, Honduras
The paper describes the results of a radiographic evaluation of two elite individuals from the Early Classic period of Copan, Honduras; K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo', founder of the Early Classic Dynasty at Copan; and the principal individual recovered from the Motmot tomb. There were two primary goals: (1) the description of previously undocumented pathological processes; and (2) the evaluation of individual-specific forms of pathology and activity-rela…
Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology in the American Anthropologist Rare but Exquisite Gems
This article explores forensic anthropological and bioarchaeological publishing patterns in the American Anthropologist (n.s.). Early contributions by Harris Hawthorne Wilder on both subjects are considered in detail, including previously unrecognized discussions of taphonomic variables. Articles on forensic anthropology in the American Anthropologist appear only during the first four decades of publication. While relatively well represented in e…
The Bioarchaeology of Structural Violence and Dissection in the 19th-Century United States
Structural violence is harm done to individuals or groups through the normalization of social inequalities in political-economic organization. Researchers working in both modern and prehistoric contexts focus on the lived experiences of individuals and the health disparities that arise from such violence. With this article, I seek to contribute to this literature by considering how skeletal evidence of dissection from the 19th-century United Stat…
The origin of the Juch'uypampa Cave mummies: Strontium isotope analysis of archaeological human remains from Bolivia
Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology in the American Anthropologist Rare but Exquisite Gems
This article explores forensic anthropological and bioarchaeological publishing patterns in the American Anthropologist (n.s.). Early contributions by Harris Hawthorne Wilder on both subjects are considered in detail, including previously unrecognized discussions of taphonomic variables. Articles on forensic anthropology in the American Anthropologist appear only during the first four decades of publication. While relatively well represented in e…
Strontium isotopic reconstruction of the composition of an urban free black population from the 19th century United States
Chachapoya Mortuary Behavior: A Consideraron of Method and Meaning
The Chachapoya region of northern Perú is characterized by a remarkable range of mortuary customs whose nature is incompletely defined and interpreted.The focus of this paper is to consider a single aspect of Chachapoya mortuary behavior: the presence/ absence and method of mummification.Complex, anthropogenic mummy bundles have been recovered from the Laguna de los Cóndores while less well documented and described "cadavers" and bodies have been…
Dental evidence of congenital syphilis in a 19th century cemetery from the mid-hudson valley
The purpose of this communication is to provide a description of a pattern of enamel defects that are consistent with a diagnosis of congenital syphilis. While there is an abundance of literature documenting the skeletal manifestations of congenital syphilis, the description, and particularly the depiction, of the dental stigmata associated with this disease are rare in the paleopathological literature. This report describes enamel defects in the…
Dental Health of Free Blacks in New York State during the Mid-19th Century
The current research will examine the frequency of carious teeth, periapical abscesses and ante-mortem tooth loss in the Newburgh Colored Burial Ground (1830-1870), a free black cemetery in Newburgh, New York. The Newburgh material is compared with skeletal samples from the New York African Burial Ground, New York State almshouses, a free black cemetery from Philadelphia and middle-class/upper-class European cemeteries. Although previous research…
Trepanation in the Chachapoya region of northern Perú
This paper discusses trepanation frequency data from the Chachapoya region of the northern highlands of Perú. New data from three skeletal samples are presented: Kuelap, Laguna Huayabamba, and Los Pinchudos, as well as isolated crania housed at the Chachapoya Museo Instituto Nacional de Cultura. The vast majority of the trepanations are circular in shape, except for one individual exhibiting as many as three roughly square trepanations. Evidence …
Late Chachapoya population structure prior to Inka conquest
Archaeological and ethnohistorical documents suggest that the Chachapoya region was inhabited by a number of distinct sociopolitical groups that only united in the face of their common enemy, the Inka. The purpose of this research is to quantify the amount of internal genetic differentiation and levels of extraregional gene flow during the Late Chachapoya period, in order to obtain a better understanding of the genetic relationship between these …
Mortuary behaviour reconstruction through palaeoentomology: A case study from Chachapoya, Perú
This paper explores the contribution that applied forensic entomology can make to our understanding of prehistoric mortuary behaviour. Samples of insect remains were recovered from a mummy bundle that has been attributed to the Chachapoya people who occupied the northern highlands of Perú from ca. AD 800 to ca. AD 1532. The insects were identified to the family level and used to create a hypothetical timeline of post-mortem interval before the co…
Liburnian lunches: New stable isotope data for the Iron Age community of Nadin‐Gradina, Croatia
The Iron Age in Central Europe is defined as a transformative time in local populations' lives including dietary patterns. Stable isotope analysis has become a valuable tool for investigating paleodietary and paleomobility patterns in ancient societies using samples of human and animal skeletal remains from individual burials. This is an isotopic study of collagen and apatite from Iron Age Liburian burials seventh to first century BC from Nadin‐G…
Trauma‐induced changes in diaphyseal cross‐sectional geometry in two elites from Copan, Honduras
This research utilized biplanar radiographs to estimate cross‐sectional biomechanical properties for the skeletal remains of two elite individuals from the Early Classic period (ca. AD 400–600) of Copan, Honduras: K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo' (Hunal Burial 95‐2), founder of the Early Classic Dynasty at Copan, and the primary female interment (Burial 37‐8) from the Motmot tomb. Both individuals survived severe blunt‐force insults to the right forearm. Gr…
Radiographic evaluation of two Early Classic elites from Copan, Honduras
The paper describes the results of a radiographic evaluation of two elite individuals from the Early Classic period of Copan, Honduras; K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo', founder of the Early Classic Dynasty at Copan; and the principal individual recovered from the Motmot tomb. There were two primary goals: (1) the description of previously undocumented pathological processes; and (2) the evaluation of individual-specific forms of pathology and activity-rela…
Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology in the American Anthropologist Rare but Exquisite Gems
This article explores forensic anthropological and bioarchaeological publishing patterns in the American Anthropologist (n.s.). Early contributions by Harris Hawthorne Wilder on both subjects are considered in detail, including previously unrecognized discussions of taphonomic variables. Articles on forensic anthropology in the American Anthropologist appear only during the first four decades of publication. While relatively well represented in e…
The origin of the Juch'uypampa Cave mummies: Strontium isotope analysis of archaeological human remains from Bolivia
Trauma‐induced changes in diaphyseal cross‐sectional geometry in two elites from Copan, Honduras
This research utilized biplanar radiographs to estimate cross‐sectional biomechanical properties for the skeletal remains of two elite individuals from the Early Classic period (ca. AD 400–600) of Copan, Honduras: K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo' (Hunal Burial 95‐2), founder of the Early Classic Dynasty at Copan, and the primary female interment (Burial 37‐8) from the Motmot tomb. Both individuals survived severe blunt‐force insults to the right forearm. Gr…
Mortuary behaviour reconstruction through palaeoentomology: A case study from Chachapoya, Perú
This paper explores the contribution that applied forensic entomology can make to our understanding of prehistoric mortuary behaviour. Samples of insect remains were recovered from a mummy bundle that has been attributed to the Chachapoya people who occupied the northern highlands of Perú from ca. AD 800 to ca. AD 1532. The insects were identified to the family level and used to create a hypothetical timeline of post-mortem interval before the co…
Radiographic evaluation of two Early Classic elites from Copan, Honduras
The paper describes the results of a radiographic evaluation of two elite individuals from the Early Classic period of Copan, Honduras; K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo', founder of the Early Classic Dynasty at Copan; and the principal individual recovered from the Motmot tomb. There were two primary goals: (1) the description of previously undocumented pathological processes; and (2) the evaluation of individual-specific forms of pathology and activity-rela…
Late Chachapoya population structure prior to Inka conquest
Archaeological and ethnohistorical documents suggest that the Chachapoya region was inhabited by a number of distinct sociopolitical groups that only united in the face of their common enemy, the Inka. The purpose of this research is to quantify the amount of internal genetic differentiation and levels of extraregional gene flow during the Late Chachapoya period, in order to obtain a better understanding of the genetic relationship between these …
Trepanation in the Chachapoya region of northern Perú
This paper discusses trepanation frequency data from the Chachapoya region of the northern highlands of Perú. New data from three skeletal samples are presented: Kuelap, Laguna Huayabamba, and Los Pinchudos, as well as isolated crania housed at the Chachapoya Museo Instituto Nacional de Cultura. The vast majority of the trepanations are circular in shape, except for one individual exhibiting as many as three roughly square trepanations. Evidence …
Chachapoya Mortuary Behavior: A Consideraron of Method and Meaning
The Chachapoya region of northern Perú is characterized by a remarkable range of mortuary customs whose nature is incompletely defined and interpreted.The focus of this paper is to consider a single aspect of Chachapoya mortuary behavior: the presence/ absence and method of mummification.Complex, anthropogenic mummy bundles have been recovered from the Laguna de los Cóndores while less well documented and described "cadavers" and bodies have been…
Postmortem examinations and the embodiment of inequality in 19th century United States
Strontium isotopic reconstruction of the composition of an urban free black population from the 19th century United States
Dental evidence of congenital syphilis in a 19th century cemetery from the mid-hudson valley
The purpose of this communication is to provide a description of a pattern of enamel defects that are consistent with a diagnosis of congenital syphilis. While there is an abundance of literature documenting the skeletal manifestations of congenital syphilis, the description, and particularly the depiction, of the dental stigmata associated with this disease are rare in the paleopathological literature. This report describes enamel defects in the…
Dental Health of Free Blacks in New York State during the Mid-19th Century
The current research will examine the frequency of carious teeth, periapical abscesses and ante-mortem tooth loss in the Newburgh Colored Burial Ground (1830-1870), a free black cemetery in Newburgh, New York. The Newburgh material is compared with skeletal samples from the New York African Burial Ground, New York State almshouses, a free black cemetery from Philadelphia and middle-class/upper-class European cemeteries. Although previous research…
The Bioarchaeology of Structural Violence and Dissection in the 19th-Century United States
Structural violence is harm done to individuals or groups through the normalization of social inequalities in political-economic organization. Researchers working in both modern and prehistoric contexts focus on the lived experiences of individuals and the health disparities that arise from such violence. With this article, I seek to contribute to this literature by considering how skeletal evidence of dissection from the 19th-century United Stat…
‘Place of Strong Men’
Mummy studies and the bioarchaeology of care
Liburnian lunches: New stable isotope data for the Iron Age community of Nadin‐Gradina, Croatia
The Iron Age in Central Europe is defined as a transformative time in local populations' lives including dietary patterns. Stable isotope analysis has become a valuable tool for investigating paleodietary and paleomobility patterns in ancient societies using samples of human and animal skeletal remains from individual burials. This is an isotopic study of collagen and apatite from Iron Age Liburian burials seventh to first century BC from Nadin‐G…
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