J Marla Toyne
Biographic Data
| ID | 93615 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Marla Toyne |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Marla |
| FAMILY NAME | Toyne |
| SIGNATURE | TOYNE J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Central Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8017-737X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Multi-tissue stable isotopic investigation of social elite diet at Túcume, Peru
Estimating the Stature of an Ancient North Andean Population From Articular Breadths and Diaphyseal Diameters: An Extension of Anzellini and Toyne (2020)
Stature estimation of skeletal remains is mostly dependent on the lengths of long bones, but these are often unavailable in fragmented or commingled assemblages. To overcome this obstacle, we present an extension of the unisex stature estimation models for high‐altitude Andean populations presented by Anzellini and Toyne (2020) using femoral and tibial articular breadths and diaphyseal diameters. We estimated the anatomical statures of 28 adults,…
Extended Reality on Chachapoya Cliffside Necropolises: From Digital Documentation to Public Engagement
Chacha XR is an interactive project developed between 2021 and 2023 that explores contemporary forms of documentation and digital dissemination of cultural heritage in the context of Chachapoya archaeology. Through a web portal and a multiplatform app, users can explore seven pre-Columbian archaeological sites located in the northeastern Andes of Peru. Most of these are necropolises perched on inaccessible vertical cliffs in remote locations. The…
Transformation of Coca to Cocaine: An Overview of Traditional Drug Use and Modern Drug Abuse
This research paper briefly reviews the complex relationship between traditional use of coca and the consumption of the recreational drug, cocaine. A review of the history of coca production and utilization in the Andean region of South American illustrates the bio-social evolution of this plant. Coca leaves also have long played a significant role in the local economy and ritual practice. Alternatively, cocaine’s history and modern position as a…
The bottom line: Exploring analytical methods for assessing bioapatite preservation in archaeological bone using FTIR-ATR
Twenty-first century bioarchaeology: Taking stock and moving forward
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…
Two (Missing) Left Feet: Caring for Foot Amputees in Late Pre-Hispanic Túcume, Lambayeque Peru
Understanding pre-Hispanic Andean medical practices through skeletal evidence of surgery has been the focus of a number of bioarchaeological investigations in recent years. Amputation is an especially interesting topic of research due to the variety of social contexts in which it might have occurred. Interpretations for amputation found on the north coast of Peru have included therapeutic intervention, punitive measures, and ritualistic dismember…
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…
Examining variation in skeletal tuberculosis in a late pre-contact population from the eastern mountains of Peru
Examining pre-Hispanic human and animal isotopic variation at Kuelap in the eastern montane of Peru
An introduction to advances in Andean South American paleopathology
Something Old, Something New: (Re)analysis and Interpretation of Three Bronze Age Trepanations From Croatia
In this paper we present three prehistoric cases (two previously reported and one recently discovered) of trepanation from Croatia: Rudine, Bezdanjaca and Jagodnjak, all dated to the Bronze Age. By using a detailed macroscopic analysis as well as radiographic imaging (x-ray and CT scanning) of the skulls, we provide a new assessment and interpretation for this type of surgical intervention during the Bronze Age. The first case was that of an adul…
Estimating sex using isolated appendicular skeletal elements from Chachapoyas, Peru
The estimation of sex from human skeletal remains is one of the primary steps in the creation of a bioarchaeological demography. Conventionally, sex has been estimated from the crania or os coxae, but commingled contexts pose challenges when associating these key elements with the rest of the remains becomes impossible or if the sample is mostly represented by postcranial appendicular elements. Following successful applications of logistic regres…
Going Vertical: Using Vertical Progression Techniques to Explore a Cliff Necropolis in Late Precolumbian Chachapoyas, Peru
Most archaeological practice involves horizontal excavations of ancient occupations and cemeteries, but the Chachapoya of Peru's eastern montane built tombs along narrow cliff ledges, which require innovative methods of investigation. Many of these sites are becoming exposed and threatened due to increased deforestation. The La Petaca mortuary complex includes 125 constructed platforms, modified ledges, mausoleums, and caves containing human rema…
Sociedad, identidad y variedad de los mausoleos de La Petaca, Chachapoyas
Los chachapoya de la sierra nororiental de Perú utilizaron varios métodos para enterrar a sus muertos, pero casi todos estos se dieron en espacios sumamente visibles. Mientras que existe variación regional entre diferentes espacios mortuorios chachapoya, hay evidencia de una cohesión estilística dentro de cada sitio. Desafortunadamente, pocos complejos mortuorios han sido excavados, pero el complejo de La Petaca en el distrito de Leymebamba, nos …
Un análisis bioarqueológico de los entierros en Kuélap, un acercamiento a los patrones de morfología y vida
Mediante el análisis bioarqueológico y biométrico de los restos óseos de Kuélap podemos probar los modelos de la naturaleza física atribuidos a los chachapoya, un grupo indígena mitificado por los inka en los documentos históricos.Fueron descritos como fuertes y feroces, pero también blancos y hermosos. Esta investigación explora los conceptos inka que distinguen de modo particular a la población chachapoya. Utilizando datos esqueléticos de una a…
When Space Is Limited: A Spatial Exploration of Pre-Hispanic Chachapoya Mortuary and Ritual Microlandscape
Ritual violence in the ancient Andes: Reconstructing sacrifice on the north coast of Peru
Traditions of sacrifice exist in almost every human culture and often embody a society's most meaningful religious and symbolic acts. Ritual violence was particularly varied and enduring in the prehistoric South American Andes, where human lives, animals, and material objects were sacrificed in secular rites or as offerings to the divine. Spectacular discoveries of sacrificial sites containing the victims of violent rituals have drawn ever-increa…
Exploring imperial expansion using an isotopic analysis of paleodietary and paleomobility indicators in Chachapoyas, Peru
Objectives Inca imperial strategies of political and territorial expansion varied across conquered regions depending on local ecology and cultural resistance, and Chachapoya peoples in Peru's forested northeastern Andes were renowned for their rebellions against the invaders. The cliff tombs of Los Pinchudos (AD 1470-1535) present opportunities to use stable isotopes to: (1) explore dietary and mobility patterns from a mortuary community interred…
The Body Sacrificed: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Ritual Violence in Ancient Túcume, Peru
Variation in large ectocranial lesions from pre-Columbian Kuelap, Peru
Tibial surgery in ancient Peru
Residential histories of elites and sacrificial victims at Huacas de Moche, Peru, as reconstructed from oxygen isotopes
The Transformation of Coca to Cocaine: An Overview of Traditional Drug Use and Modern Drug Use
Possible cases of scalping from pre-hispanic highland Peru
For years, the pre-Hispanic Chachapoya of Northern Peru have been described as the 'Warriors of the Clouds'. A more detailed look at newly excavated osteological samples from the highland site of Kuelap allows us to better examine the types of traumatic injuries among the Chachapoya. This paper describes an individual with evidence of a recent scalp removal including cut marks encircling the vault and a large area of active inflammatory response …
Twenty-first century bioarchaeology: Taking stock and moving forward
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…
Residential histories of elites and sacrificial victims at Huacas de Moche, Peru, as reconstructed from oxygen isotopes
Exploring imperial expansion using an isotopic analysis of paleodietary and paleomobility indicators in Chachapoyas, Peru
Objectives Inca imperial strategies of political and territorial expansion varied across conquered regions depending on local ecology and cultural resistance, and Chachapoya peoples in Peru's forested northeastern Andes were renowned for their rebellions against the invaders. The cliff tombs of Los Pinchudos (AD 1470-1535) present opportunities to use stable isotopes to: (1) explore dietary and mobility patterns from a mortuary community interred…
Interpretations of Pre-Hispanic Ritual Violence at Tucume, Peru, from Cut Mark Analysis
Archaeological residues of ritual are often ephemeral, and reconstructing the dynamics of performed actions that create deposits can be difficult. Rituals associated with the dead are common across many cultures since all human groups have specific means of disposing of corpses. Evidence of peri- and postmortem manipulation of human remains, such as cutting, dismemberment, or disarticulation can provide details of the sequence of actions performe…
Sociedad, identidad y variedad de los mausoleos de La Petaca, Chachapoyas
Los chachapoya de la sierra nororiental de Perú utilizaron varios métodos para enterrar a sus muertos, pero casi todos estos se dieron en espacios sumamente visibles. Mientras que existe variación regional entre diferentes espacios mortuorios chachapoya, hay evidencia de una cohesión estilística dentro de cada sitio. Desafortunadamente, pocos complejos mortuorios han sido excavados, pero el complejo de La Petaca en el distrito de Leymebamba, nos …
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…
An introduction to advances in Andean South American paleopathology
Un análisis bioarqueológico de los entierros en Kuélap, un acercamiento a los patrones de morfología y vida
Mediante el análisis bioarqueológico y biométrico de los restos óseos de Kuélap podemos probar los modelos de la naturaleza física atribuidos a los chachapoya, un grupo indígena mitificado por los inka en los documentos históricos.Fueron descritos como fuertes y feroces, pero también blancos y hermosos. Esta investigación explora los conceptos inka que distinguen de modo particular a la población chachapoya. Utilizando datos esqueléticos de una a…
Possible cases of scalping from pre-hispanic highland Peru
For years, the pre-Hispanic Chachapoya of Northern Peru have been described as the 'Warriors of the Clouds'. A more detailed look at newly excavated osteological samples from the highland site of Kuelap allows us to better examine the types of traumatic injuries among the Chachapoya. This paper describes an individual with evidence of a recent scalp removal including cut marks encircling the vault and a large area of active inflammatory response …
The Transformation of Coca to Cocaine: An Overview of Traditional Drug Use and Modern Drug Use
Possible cases of scalping from pre-hispanic highland Peru
For years, the pre-Hispanic Chachapoya of Northern Peru have been described as the 'Warriors of the Clouds'. A more detailed look at newly excavated osteological samples from the highland site of Kuelap allows us to better examine the types of traumatic injuries among the Chachapoya. This paper describes an individual with evidence of a recent scalp removal including cut marks encircling the vault and a large area of active inflammatory response …
Interpretations of Pre-Hispanic Ritual Violence at Tucume, Peru, from Cut Mark Analysis
Archaeological residues of ritual are often ephemeral, and reconstructing the dynamics of performed actions that create deposits can be difficult. Rituals associated with the dead are common across many cultures since all human groups have specific means of disposing of corpses. Evidence of peri- and postmortem manipulation of human remains, such as cutting, dismemberment, or disarticulation can provide details of the sequence of actions performe…
Residential histories of elites and sacrificial victims at Huacas de Moche, Peru, as reconstructed from oxygen isotopes
The Body Sacrificed: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Ritual Violence in Ancient Túcume, Peru
Variation in large ectocranial lesions from pre-Columbian Kuelap, Peru
Tibial surgery in ancient Peru
When Space Is Limited: A Spatial Exploration of Pre-Hispanic Chachapoya Mortuary and Ritual Microlandscape
Ritual violence in the ancient Andes: Reconstructing sacrifice on the north coast of Peru
Traditions of sacrifice exist in almost every human culture and often embody a society's most meaningful religious and symbolic acts. Ritual violence was particularly varied and enduring in the prehistoric South American Andes, where human lives, animals, and material objects were sacrificed in secular rites or as offerings to the divine. Spectacular discoveries of sacrificial sites containing the victims of violent rituals have drawn ever-increa…
Exploring imperial expansion using an isotopic analysis of paleodietary and paleomobility indicators in Chachapoyas, Peru
Objectives Inca imperial strategies of political and territorial expansion varied across conquered regions depending on local ecology and cultural resistance, and Chachapoya peoples in Peru's forested northeastern Andes were renowned for their rebellions against the invaders. The cliff tombs of Los Pinchudos (AD 1470-1535) present opportunities to use stable isotopes to: (1) explore dietary and mobility patterns from a mortuary community interred…
Sociedad, identidad y variedad de los mausoleos de La Petaca, Chachapoyas
Los chachapoya de la sierra nororiental de Perú utilizaron varios métodos para enterrar a sus muertos, pero casi todos estos se dieron en espacios sumamente visibles. Mientras que existe variación regional entre diferentes espacios mortuorios chachapoya, hay evidencia de una cohesión estilística dentro de cada sitio. Desafortunadamente, pocos complejos mortuorios han sido excavados, pero el complejo de La Petaca en el distrito de Leymebamba, nos …
Un análisis bioarqueológico de los entierros en Kuélap, un acercamiento a los patrones de morfología y vida
Mediante el análisis bioarqueológico y biométrico de los restos óseos de Kuélap podemos probar los modelos de la naturaleza física atribuidos a los chachapoya, un grupo indígena mitificado por los inka en los documentos históricos.Fueron descritos como fuertes y feroces, pero también blancos y hermosos. Esta investigación explora los conceptos inka que distinguen de modo particular a la población chachapoya. Utilizando datos esqueléticos de una a…
Going Vertical: Using Vertical Progression Techniques to Explore a Cliff Necropolis in Late Precolumbian Chachapoyas, Peru
Most archaeological practice involves horizontal excavations of ancient occupations and cemeteries, but the Chachapoya of Peru's eastern montane built tombs along narrow cliff ledges, which require innovative methods of investigation. Many of these sites are becoming exposed and threatened due to increased deforestation. The La Petaca mortuary complex includes 125 constructed platforms, modified ledges, mausoleums, and caves containing human rema…
Estimating sex using isolated appendicular skeletal elements from Chachapoyas, Peru
The estimation of sex from human skeletal remains is one of the primary steps in the creation of a bioarchaeological demography. Conventionally, sex has been estimated from the crania or os coxae, but commingled contexts pose challenges when associating these key elements with the rest of the remains becomes impossible or if the sample is mostly represented by postcranial appendicular elements. Following successful applications of logistic regres…
Examining variation in skeletal tuberculosis in a late pre-contact population from the eastern mountains of Peru
Examining pre-Hispanic human and animal isotopic variation at Kuelap in the eastern montane of Peru
An introduction to advances in Andean South American paleopathology
Something Old, Something New: (Re)analysis and Interpretation of Three Bronze Age Trepanations From Croatia
In this paper we present three prehistoric cases (two previously reported and one recently discovered) of trepanation from Croatia: Rudine, Bezdanjaca and Jagodnjak, all dated to the Bronze Age. By using a detailed macroscopic analysis as well as radiographic imaging (x-ray and CT scanning) of the skulls, we provide a new assessment and interpretation for this type of surgical intervention during the Bronze Age. The first case was that of an adul…
Two (Missing) Left Feet: Caring for Foot Amputees in Late Pre-Hispanic Túcume, Lambayeque Peru
Understanding pre-Hispanic Andean medical practices through skeletal evidence of surgery has been the focus of a number of bioarchaeological investigations in recent years. Amputation is an especially interesting topic of research due to the variety of social contexts in which it might have occurred. Interpretations for amputation found on the north coast of Peru have included therapeutic intervention, punitive measures, and ritualistic dismember…
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…
Twenty-first century bioarchaeology: Taking stock and moving forward
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…
Transformation of Coca to Cocaine: An Overview of Traditional Drug Use and Modern Drug Abuse
This research paper briefly reviews the complex relationship between traditional use of coca and the consumption of the recreational drug, cocaine. A review of the history of coca production and utilization in the Andean region of South American illustrates the bio-social evolution of this plant. Coca leaves also have long played a significant role in the local economy and ritual practice. Alternatively, cocaine’s history and modern position as a…
The bottom line: Exploring analytical methods for assessing bioapatite preservation in archaeological bone using FTIR-ATR
Multi-tissue stable isotopic investigation of social elite diet at Túcume, Peru
Estimating the Stature of an Ancient North Andean Population From Articular Breadths and Diaphyseal Diameters: An Extension of Anzellini and Toyne (2020)
Stature estimation of skeletal remains is mostly dependent on the lengths of long bones, but these are often unavailable in fragmented or commingled assemblages. To overcome this obstacle, we present an extension of the unisex stature estimation models for high‐altitude Andean populations presented by Anzellini and Toyne (2020) using femoral and tibial articular breadths and diaphyseal diameters. We estimated the anatomical statures of 28 adults,…
Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (15 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Paleopathology and ancient diseases (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Biology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (5 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (5 works)