Sabrina C Agarwal
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 88056 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sabrina C Agarwal |
| NOMBRES | Sabrina C |
| APELLIDO | Agarwal |
| FIRMA | AGARWAL S C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0543-0053 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 177 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Intraskeletal Variation in Cortical Bone Quantity in a Medieval Italian Sample
Bioarcheologists interpret skeletal health by examining variability within and between individuals. Studies of bone loss have generated contradictory and conflicting results regarding the onset and severity of age‐related bone loss on a global and temporal scale, perhaps due to mismatched methodologies. Intraskeletal comparisons of bone tissue prove challenging precisely because of heterogeneous baselines in quantity and remodeling of cortical bo…
The Future of Human Remains Collections
Hundreds of thousands of human remains are housed in collections in institutions across the globe. The histories of these collections vary greatly, from individuals in historic anatomical collections to ancestral remains from archaeological sites. However, these collections were founded in colonial and imperial practices rooted in white supremacy. Acknowledging this history is vital to building a postcolonial bioanthropology. But identifying ethi…
Bioarchaeology, Activism and Social Justice
Conclusions/Afterword
Anthropology cannot remain passive within a world facing intersecting crises of climate change, inequality, pandemics, nationalism, AI-driven misinformation, and threats to human rights and academic freedom. Drawing on the themes of the chapters in this volume, we emphasize anthropology’s capacity to integrate scientific and humanistic perspectives, address ethical dilemmas, and contribute to social transformation. The chapter outlines strategies…
The role of religious faith in dental pathological lesion patterning and approaches to care in a medieval Portuguese assemblage
The European middle ages (c.500–1500 CE) is often seen as a period of poor oral health and hygiene, as evidenced through artistic, textual, or popular media portrayals. Anthropological analyses have the unique potential to illuminate what medieval mouths were actually like through direct examination of dental and skeletal tissues themselves. In doing so, we can not only document the variability of dental diseases, but also how medieval communitie…
Theoretical Origins and Biocultural Approaches to Taphonomy in Bioarchaeology
Taphonomic Trajectories
Behind the veil
Archaeothanatology has helped immensely to better understand complex burial dynamics and funerary treatment. Recently, scholars have employed this approach in attempts to reconstruct possible shrouding of corpses prior to interment, which often degrade entirely. This approach can potentially reveal funerary evidence of burial containers despite their archaeological absence. We employ a similar approach to test the possible employment of burial sh…
Growing Up at Villamagna
This study examines the interplay between sex, gender, and child-rearing using multiple markers of skeletal growthand health in the late-medieval central Italian population of Villamagna. To reflect the complexity of growth and heterogeneity of the skeleton, we used a multi-method approach: vertebral neural canal dimensions (n = 65), cribra orbitalia (n = 66), porotic hyperostosis (n = 73), linear enamel hypoplasia (n = 51), and terminal adult st…
Medieval Mouths in Context
THIS PAPER EXAMINES THE CULTURAL FRAMEWORK and material evidence for teeth and oral health in later medieval Europe, using as a case study the bioarchaeological analysis of an excavated cemetery in central Italy (Villamagna). It proffers an alternative approach to the study of human skeletal material by reframing the questions that bioarchaeologists normally ask about mouths. Instead of stopping at, ‘how much disease?’ or ‘what state of health?’,…
What does pandemic response and recovery look like through the lens of anthropogenic violence and inequality
As the biosocial and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to be tallied, focus has turned toward pandemic response and recovery. With the majority of emerging infections linked to zoonotic origins, responses that aim for outcomes like better disease surveillance, health security, and prevention of future pandemics must begin with a critical examination of global food systems. Anthropologists offer a vital perspective on the history …
Twenty-first century bioarchaeology
This article presents outcomes from a Workshop entitled "Bioarchaeology: Taking Stock and Moving Forward," which was held at Arizona State University (ASU) on March 6-8, 2020. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the School of Human Evolution and Social Change (ASU), and the Center for Bioarchaeological Research (CBR, ASU), the Workshop's overall goal was to explore reasons why research proposals submitted by bioarchaeologists, both g…
From the Foundation to a Vision of the Future
A note from the founding editors of Bioarchaeology International
What is normal bone health? A bioarchaeological perspective on meaningful measures and interpretations of bone strength, loss, and aging
Bioarchaeological (the study of archeological human remains together with contextual and documentary evidence) offers a unique vantage point to examine variation in skeletal morphology related to influences such as activity, disease, and nutrition. The human skeleton is composed of a dynamic tissue that is forged by biocultural factors over the entire life course, providing a record of individual, and community history. Various aspects of adult b…
Economic access influences degenerative spine disease outcomes at rural Late Medieval Villamagna (Lazio, IT )
OBJECTIVES: Degenerative joint disease in the spine is heavily influenced by genetic, environmental, and epigenetic factors, as well as exacerbated by physical activity and injury. The objective of this study was to investigate the multivariate relationship between known predictors of degenerative joint disease in the spine, such as age and sex, with mortuary indicators of economic access such as grave inclusions, burial location, and burial type…
Interpreting mortuary treatment from histological bone diagenesis
This study examines the evidence for differential mortuary practices at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, in Anatolia, Turkey, using the histological examination of bacterial microbioerosion in archaeological human bone. In order to analyse bacterial microbioerosion, thin sections were prepared from the midshaft of thoracic ribs 6-8, of n = 162 individuals (adults and juveniles) and analysed using qualitative analysis of microscopic focal destruc…
Making sense of medieval mouths
OBJECTIVES: Bioarchaeological investigations of sex-based differences in the prevalence of dental pathological lesions, particularly caries, have drawn considerable attention, and out of this work, two dominant models have emerged. Traditionally, the first model interprets sex-related patterns in caries as a product of gendered differences in diet. A more recent model interprets a generally higher propensity for caries prevalence in females in li…
The daily grind
Objectives Daily activities involve biomechanical strains acting on skeletal structures. This study identifies differences in activity patterns between males and females, and between young, middle, and older aged individuals within an excavated Muisca skeletal sample from the Eastern Andes region of Northern South America. Materials and methods The Tibanica archaeological site (AD 1000‐1400) is located at 2600 masl on the Sabana de Bogotá, Colomb…
Stronger Together
Bioarchaeology is a relatively young field that aims to improve our understanding of life, death, and interrelationships among past humans around the globe. The discipline grew out of 1960s American processual archaeology and biological anthropology and emerged as human osteoarchaeology in the UK. Today, bioarchaeology is a vibrant, interdisciplinary field of study that cross-cuts biological anthropology, archaeology, and social theory to situate…
A multi‐method assessment of bone maintenance and loss in an I mperial R oman population
OBJECTIVES: One of the hallmarks of contemporary osteoporosis and bone loss is dramatically higher prevalence of loss and fragility in females post-menopause. In contrast, bioarchaeological studies of bone loss have found a greater diversity of age- and sex-related patterns of bone loss in past populations. We argue that the differing findings may relate to the fact that most studies use only a single methodology to quantify bone loss and do not …
Nutrition and Bone Loss in Antiquity
Human diet and nutrition have been the focus of decades of archaeological research, with studies increasingly investigating the multiple variables affecting bone maintenance - diet, genetics, sex, age, physical activity, pregnancy and lactation. Patterns of severe bone loss in modern populations have prompted scholars to investigate how skeletal systems may have responded under different biocultural contexts in the past. Here we review literature…
Bone morphologies and histories
The duality of the skeleton as both a biological and cultural entity has formed the theoretical basis of bioarchaeology. In recent years bioarchaeological studies have stretched the early biocultural concept with the adoption of life course approaches in their study design and analyses, making a significant contribution to how we think about the role of postnatal plasticity. Life course theory is a conceptual framework used in several scientific …
Bioarchaeology of Neolithic Çatalhöyük
Age-Related Cortical Bone Maintenance and Loss in an Imperial Roman Population
This article explores age- and sex-related patterns of cortical bone loss, assessed by radiogrammetry of the second metacarpal, from a skeletal sample excavated from the Imperial Roman port city of Velia (1st and 2nd century ad), to contribute to our understanding of health and disease during the Imperial period. Patterns of age- and sex-related bone loss and health at Velia are also compared with other historical samples and to modern clinical d…
The Past of Sex, Gender, and Health
Empirical studies of bone maintenance in archaeological populations show that patterns of bone loss do not constitute predictable consequences of aging, either on age or sex. Our understanding of aging and gender identity in the past usually is structured by determining the category of biological sex, which is almost always the first step of bioarchaeological analysis. But this categorization can obscure our analyses and limit the questions that …
Bone morphologies and histories
The duality of the skeleton as both a biological and cultural entity has formed the theoretical basis of bioarchaeology. In recent years bioarchaeological studies have stretched the early biocultural concept with the adoption of life course approaches in their study design and analyses, making a significant contribution to how we think about the role of postnatal plasticity. Life course theory is a conceptual framework used in several scientific …
Bioarchaeology of Neolithic Çatalhöyük
The Past of Sex, Gender, and Health
Empirical studies of bone maintenance in archaeological populations show that patterns of bone loss do not constitute predictable consequences of aging, either on age or sex. Our understanding of aging and gender identity in the past usually is structured by determining the category of biological sex, which is almost always the first step of bioarchaeological analysis. But this categorization can obscure our analyses and limit the questions that …
Medieval trabecular bone architecture
Osteoporosis has become a growing health concern in developed countries and an extensive area of research in skeletal biology. Despite numerous paleopathological studies of bone mass, few studies have measured bone quality in past populations. In order to examine age‐ and sex‐related changes in one aspect of bone quality in the past, a study was made of trabecular bone architecture in a British medieval skeletal sample. X‐ray images of 5‐mm‐thick…
Twenty-first century bioarchaeology
This article presents outcomes from a Workshop entitled "Bioarchaeology: Taking Stock and Moving Forward," which was held at Arizona State University (ASU) on March 6-8, 2020. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the School of Human Evolution and Social Change (ASU), and the Center for Bioarchaeological Research (CBR, ASU), the Workshop's overall goal was to explore reasons why research proposals submitted by bioarchaeologists, both g…
An investigation of cortical bone loss and fracture patterns in the neolithic community of Çatalhöyük, Turkey using metacarpal radiogrammetry
Measuring and interpreting age‐related loss of vertebral bone mineral density in a medieval population
This study investigates the age‐ and sex‐related patterns in vertebral bone mineral density (BMD) and the relationship between BMD and vertebral osteophytosis (VO), using a specialized peripheral densitometer in a skeletal sample excavated from the British medieval village Wharram Percy. A total of 58 individuals were divided by sex into three broad age categories (18–29, 30–49, 50+ years.). Each fourth intact vertebral centra was scored for VO a…
A multi‐method assessment of bone maintenance and loss in an I mperial R oman population
OBJECTIVES: One of the hallmarks of contemporary osteoporosis and bone loss is dramatically higher prevalence of loss and fragility in females post-menopause. In contrast, bioarchaeological studies of bone loss have found a greater diversity of age- and sex-related patterns of bone loss in past populations. We argue that the differing findings may relate to the fact that most studies use only a single methodology to quantify bone loss and do not …
Age-Related Cortical Bone Maintenance and Loss in an Imperial Roman Population
This article explores age- and sex-related patterns of cortical bone loss, assessed by radiogrammetry of the second metacarpal, from a skeletal sample excavated from the Imperial Roman port city of Velia (1st and 2nd century ad), to contribute to our understanding of health and disease during the Imperial period. Patterns of age- and sex-related bone loss and health at Velia are also compared with other historical samples and to modern clinical d…
Making sense of medieval mouths
OBJECTIVES: Bioarchaeological investigations of sex-based differences in the prevalence of dental pathological lesions, particularly caries, have drawn considerable attention, and out of this work, two dominant models have emerged. Traditionally, the first model interprets sex-related patterns in caries as a product of gendered differences in diet. A more recent model interprets a generally higher propensity for caries prevalence in females in li…
The daily grind
Objectives Daily activities involve biomechanical strains acting on skeletal structures. This study identifies differences in activity patterns between males and females, and between young, middle, and older aged individuals within an excavated Muisca skeletal sample from the Eastern Andes region of Northern South America. Materials and methods The Tibanica archaeological site (AD 1000‐1400) is located at 2600 masl on the Sabana de Bogotá, Colomb…
Taphonomic Trajectories
Medieval Mouths in Context
THIS PAPER EXAMINES THE CULTURAL FRAMEWORK and material evidence for teeth and oral health in later medieval Europe, using as a case study the bioarchaeological analysis of an excavated cemetery in central Italy (Villamagna). It proffers an alternative approach to the study of human skeletal material by reframing the questions that bioarchaeologists normally ask about mouths. Instead of stopping at, ‘how much disease?’ or ‘what state of health?’,…
Interpreting mortuary treatment from histological bone diagenesis
This study examines the evidence for differential mortuary practices at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, in Anatolia, Turkey, using the histological examination of bacterial microbioerosion in archaeological human bone. In order to analyse bacterial microbioerosion, thin sections were prepared from the midshaft of thoracic ribs 6-8, of n = 162 individuals (adults and juveniles) and analysed using qualitative analysis of microscopic focal destruc…
Medieval trabecular bone architecture
Osteoporosis has become a growing health concern in developed countries and an extensive area of research in skeletal biology. Despite numerous paleopathological studies of bone mass, few studies have measured bone quality in past populations. In order to examine age‐ and sex‐related changes in one aspect of bone quality in the past, a study was made of trabecular bone architecture in a British medieval skeletal sample. X‐ray images of 5‐mm‐thick…
Measuring and interpreting age‐related loss of vertebral bone mineral density in a medieval population
This study investigates the age‐ and sex‐related patterns in vertebral bone mineral density (BMD) and the relationship between BMD and vertebral osteophytosis (VO), using a specialized peripheral densitometer in a skeletal sample excavated from the British medieval village Wharram Percy. A total of 58 individuals were divided by sex into three broad age categories (18–29, 30–49, 50+ years.). Each fourth intact vertebral centra was scored for VO a…
An investigation of cortical bone loss and fracture patterns in the neolithic community of Çatalhöyük, Turkey using metacarpal radiogrammetry
Social Bioarchaeology
The Past of Sex, Gender, and Health
Empirical studies of bone maintenance in archaeological populations show that patterns of bone loss do not constitute predictable consequences of aging, either on age or sex. Our understanding of aging and gender identity in the past usually is structured by determining the category of biological sex, which is almost always the first step of bioarchaeological analysis. But this categorization can obscure our analyses and limit the questions that …
Age-Related Cortical Bone Maintenance and Loss in an Imperial Roman Population
This article explores age- and sex-related patterns of cortical bone loss, assessed by radiogrammetry of the second metacarpal, from a skeletal sample excavated from the Imperial Roman port city of Velia (1st and 2nd century ad), to contribute to our understanding of health and disease during the Imperial period. Patterns of age- and sex-related bone loss and health at Velia are also compared with other historical samples and to modern clinical d…
Bioarchaeology of Neolithic Çatalhöyük
Nutrition and Bone Loss in Antiquity
Human diet and nutrition have been the focus of decades of archaeological research, with studies increasingly investigating the multiple variables affecting bone maintenance - diet, genetics, sex, age, physical activity, pregnancy and lactation. Patterns of severe bone loss in modern populations have prompted scholars to investigate how skeletal systems may have responded under different biocultural contexts in the past. Here we review literature…
Bone morphologies and histories
The duality of the skeleton as both a biological and cultural entity has formed the theoretical basis of bioarchaeology. In recent years bioarchaeological studies have stretched the early biocultural concept with the adoption of life course approaches in their study design and analyses, making a significant contribution to how we think about the role of postnatal plasticity. Life course theory is a conceptual framework used in several scientific …
Stronger Together
Bioarchaeology is a relatively young field that aims to improve our understanding of life, death, and interrelationships among past humans around the globe. The discipline grew out of 1960s American processual archaeology and biological anthropology and emerged as human osteoarchaeology in the UK. Today, bioarchaeology is a vibrant, interdisciplinary field of study that cross-cuts biological anthropology, archaeology, and social theory to situate…
A multi‐method assessment of bone maintenance and loss in an I mperial R oman population
OBJECTIVES: One of the hallmarks of contemporary osteoporosis and bone loss is dramatically higher prevalence of loss and fragility in females post-menopause. In contrast, bioarchaeological studies of bone loss have found a greater diversity of age- and sex-related patterns of bone loss in past populations. We argue that the differing findings may relate to the fact that most studies use only a single methodology to quantify bone loss and do not …
The daily grind
Objectives Daily activities involve biomechanical strains acting on skeletal structures. This study identifies differences in activity patterns between males and females, and between young, middle, and older aged individuals within an excavated Muisca skeletal sample from the Eastern Andes region of Northern South America. Materials and methods The Tibanica archaeological site (AD 1000‐1400) is located at 2600 masl on the Sabana de Bogotá, Colomb…
Making sense of medieval mouths
OBJECTIVES: Bioarchaeological investigations of sex-based differences in the prevalence of dental pathological lesions, particularly caries, have drawn considerable attention, and out of this work, two dominant models have emerged. Traditionally, the first model interprets sex-related patterns in caries as a product of gendered differences in diet. A more recent model interprets a generally higher propensity for caries prevalence in females in li…
From the Foundation to a Vision of the Future
A note from the founding editors of Bioarchaeology International
What is normal bone health? A bioarchaeological perspective on meaningful measures and interpretations of bone strength, loss, and aging
Bioarchaeological (the study of archeological human remains together with contextual and documentary evidence) offers a unique vantage point to examine variation in skeletal morphology related to influences such as activity, disease, and nutrition. The human skeleton is composed of a dynamic tissue that is forged by biocultural factors over the entire life course, providing a record of individual, and community history. Various aspects of adult b…
Economic access influences degenerative spine disease outcomes at rural Late Medieval Villamagna (Lazio, IT )
OBJECTIVES: Degenerative joint disease in the spine is heavily influenced by genetic, environmental, and epigenetic factors, as well as exacerbated by physical activity and injury. The objective of this study was to investigate the multivariate relationship between known predictors of degenerative joint disease in the spine, such as age and sex, with mortuary indicators of economic access such as grave inclusions, burial location, and burial type…
Interpreting mortuary treatment from histological bone diagenesis
This study examines the evidence for differential mortuary practices at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, in Anatolia, Turkey, using the histological examination of bacterial microbioerosion in archaeological human bone. In order to analyse bacterial microbioerosion, thin sections were prepared from the midshaft of thoracic ribs 6-8, of n = 162 individuals (adults and juveniles) and analysed using qualitative analysis of microscopic focal destruc…
What does pandemic response and recovery look like through the lens of anthropogenic violence and inequality
As the biosocial and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to be tallied, focus has turned toward pandemic response and recovery. With the majority of emerging infections linked to zoonotic origins, responses that aim for outcomes like better disease surveillance, health security, and prevention of future pandemics must begin with a critical examination of global food systems. Anthropologists offer a vital perspective on the history …
Twenty-first century bioarchaeology
This article presents outcomes from a Workshop entitled "Bioarchaeology: Taking Stock and Moving Forward," which was held at Arizona State University (ASU) on March 6-8, 2020. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the School of Human Evolution and Social Change (ASU), and the Center for Bioarchaeological Research (CBR, ASU), the Workshop's overall goal was to explore reasons why research proposals submitted by bioarchaeologists, both g…
Growing Up at Villamagna
This study examines the interplay between sex, gender, and child-rearing using multiple markers of skeletal growthand health in the late-medieval central Italian population of Villamagna. To reflect the complexity of growth and heterogeneity of the skeleton, we used a multi-method approach: vertebral neural canal dimensions (n = 65), cribra orbitalia (n = 66), porotic hyperostosis (n = 73), linear enamel hypoplasia (n = 51), and terminal adult st…
Medieval Mouths in Context
THIS PAPER EXAMINES THE CULTURAL FRAMEWORK and material evidence for teeth and oral health in later medieval Europe, using as a case study the bioarchaeological analysis of an excavated cemetery in central Italy (Villamagna). It proffers an alternative approach to the study of human skeletal material by reframing the questions that bioarchaeologists normally ask about mouths. Instead of stopping at, ‘how much disease?’ or ‘what state of health?’,…
Taphonomic Trajectories
Behind the veil
Archaeothanatology has helped immensely to better understand complex burial dynamics and funerary treatment. Recently, scholars have employed this approach in attempts to reconstruct possible shrouding of corpses prior to interment, which often degrade entirely. This approach can potentially reveal funerary evidence of burial containers despite their archaeological absence. We employ a similar approach to test the possible employment of burial sh…
Theoretical Origins and Biocultural Approaches to Taphonomy in Bioarchaeology
Intraskeletal Variation in Cortical Bone Quantity in a Medieval Italian Sample
Bioarcheologists interpret skeletal health by examining variability within and between individuals. Studies of bone loss have generated contradictory and conflicting results regarding the onset and severity of age‐related bone loss on a global and temporal scale, perhaps due to mismatched methodologies. Intraskeletal comparisons of bone tissue prove challenging precisely because of heterogeneous baselines in quantity and remodeling of cortical bo…
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