Graciela S Cabana
Biographic Data
| ID | 93804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graciela S Cabana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graciela S |
| FAMILY NAME | Cabana |
| SIGNATURE | CABANA G S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5399-1173 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Ancient mitochondrial genomes from Coastal Patagonia: Population structure and human dispersal in the Southern Cone
Intergenerational transmission of ancestry information in a mid-size city in Argentina
We examined the self-reported family trees of 288 adult Argentines from a mid-size city near Buenos Aires to evaluate how intergenerational transmission of ancestry information matched (or not) anonymized estimates of continental-level genetic ancestry. Intergenerational transmission of ancestry information was inferred from the content of the anonymized family trees, and continental-level ancestries were inferred from genomic information collect…
Crossing at y/our own peril: Biocultural boundary crossing in anthropology
Biocultural approaches in anthropology originated from a desire to dissolve the nature/culture divide that is entrenched in the discipline. Whereas biocultural approaches were born under the umbrella of medical anthropology, by the late 1990s, biology-centered approaches to bioculturalism had been mostly taken up by human biologists in biological anthropology. It was at this point that biology-inclined approaches began to gel into an informal int…
Report from the AAPA President, other reports, and in memoriam
Ancestry, health, and lived experiences of enslaved Africans in 18th century Charleston: An osteobiographical analysis
OBJECTIVES: In 2013, the burials of 36 individuals of putative African ancestry were discovered during renovation of the Gaillard Center in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. The Charleston community facilitated a bioarchaeological and mitogenomic study to gain insights into the lives of these unknown persons, referred to as the Anson Street Ancestors, including their ancestry, health, and lived experiences in the 18th century. METHODS: Metric …
Upholding "good science" in human origins research: A response to Chan et al (2019)
The recent publication by Chan et al (2019) entitled “Human origins in a southern African palaeo-wetland and first migrations” fails to meet scientific standards for publication in two ways. First, it neglects its scientific duty to discuss the entire body of scientific evidence around human origins, which leads to unsupportable claims. Second, it reinforces racialized power dynamics within the science of human origins. We argue that the authors …
Ancient DNA and bioarchaeological perspectives on European and African diversity and relationships on the colonial Delaware frontier
OBJECTIVES: Ancient DNA (aDNA) and standard osteological analyses applied to 11 skeletons at a late 17th to early 18th century farmstead site in Delaware to investigate the biological and social factors of settlement and slavery in colonial America. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Osteological analysis and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequencing were conducted for all individuals and the resulting data contextualized with archaeological and documentary evide…
Ethics in biological anthropology
Ethics is defined as "moral principles or a system of these," or "moral principles, maxims, precepts or observations concerning these" (Ethics, 2017). For a discipline or a profession, these principles are often articulated in a code of ethics or a code of conduct. These codes express a professional society's understanding of the obligations, strictures and responsibilities of the organization and its members. For an individual, the codes set out…
Social Identity in New Mexicans of Spanish-Speaking Descent Highlights Limitations of Using Standardized Ethnic Terminology in Research
In this study, we evaluated the extent to which regional history has shaped the social identity nomenclature in New Mexicans of Spanish-speaking descent (NMSD). We asked 507 NMSD to list the social-identity terms they used to describe themselves and their parents, and we examined the correspondence between these choices and family ties to the region, birthplace, and continental ancestry. NMSD frequently identified using the regional terms "Nuevom…
Beyond Serial Founder Effects: The Impact of Admixture and Localized Gene Flow on Patterns of Regional Genetic Diversity
Geneticists have argued that the linear decay in within-population genetic diversity with increasing geographic distance from East Africa is best explained by a phylogenetic process of repeated founder effects, growth, and isolation. However, this serial founder effect (SFE) process has not yet been adequately vetted against other evolutionary processes that may also affect geospatial patterns of diversity. Additionally, studies of the SFE proces…
The apportionment of human diversity revisited
OBJECTIVES: Studies of the apportionment of human genetic diversity have found that local populations harbor nearly as much diversity as the species as a whole. These studies have been a valuable cornerstone in rejecting race as a biological framework in anthropology. The current study presents new analyses that use updated statistical methods based on bifurcating trees to assess the structure of human genetic diversity and its implications for t…
Population Genetic Structure of Traditional Populations in the Peruvian Central Andes and Implications for South American Population History
Molecular-based characterizations of Andean peoples are traditionally conducted in the service of elucidating continent-level evolutionary processes in South America. Consequently, genetic variation among "western" Andean populations is often represented in relation to variation among "eastern" Amazon and Orinoco River Basin populations. This west-east contrast in patterns of population genetic variation is typically attributed to large-scale phe…
The Problematic Relationship between Migration and Culture Change
Rethinking anthropological perspectives on migration
Inferring Population Continuity Versus Replacement with aDNA: A Cautionary Tale from the Aleutian Islands
In The Aleutian and Commander Islands and Their Inhabitants (Philadelphia: Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1945), Hrdlička proposed a population replacement event in the Aleutian Islands approximately 1,000 years ago based on a perceived temporal shift in cranial morphology. However, the archaeological record indicates cultural, and presumed population, continuity for more than 4,000 years. We use mtDNA haplogroup data in the series of p…
Population continuity or replacement? A novel computer simulation approach and its application to the numic expansion (Western Great Basin, USA)
In a previous study, Kaestle and Smith [Am J Phys Anthropol 115 ( 2001 ) 1–12] supported a recent (A.D. 1000) Numic expansion into the Great Basin region based on a molecular and statistical analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of ancient and modern native inhabitants of the region. Their statistical methodology could not rule out the possibility that observed differences in haplogroup frequencies are instead the result of long‐term microevoluti…
A formal test of linguistic and genetic coevolution in native Central and South America
This paper investigates a mechanism of linguistic and genetic coevolution in Native Central and South America. This mechanism proposes that a process of population fissions, expansions into new territories, and isolation of ancestral and descendant groups will produce congruent language and gene trees. To evaluate this population fissions mechanism, we collected published mtDNA sequences for 1,381 individuals from 17 Native Central and South Amer…
Is the genetic structure of Gran Chaco populations unique? Interregional perspectives on native South American mitochondrial DNA variation
This study reevaluates the hypothesis in Demarchi et al. (2001 Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 115:199-203) that Gran Chaco peoples demonstrate a unique pattern of genetic diversity due to a distinct regional population history. Specifically, they found populations in the central part of the Gran Chaco, or Central Chaco, to have higher within- and lower between-population mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup frequency variation compared to populations in…
An Australasian test of the recent African origin theory using the WLH-50 calvarium
Ethics in biological anthropology
Ethics is defined as "moral principles or a system of these," or "moral principles, maxims, precepts or observations concerning these" (Ethics, 2017). For a discipline or a profession, these principles are often articulated in a code of ethics or a code of conduct. These codes express a professional society's understanding of the obligations, strictures and responsibilities of the organization and its members. For an individual, the codes set out…
An Australasian test of the recent African origin theory using the WLH-50 calvarium
Inferring Population Continuity Versus Replacement with aDNA: A Cautionary Tale from the Aleutian Islands
In The Aleutian and Commander Islands and Their Inhabitants (Philadelphia: Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1945), Hrdlička proposed a population replacement event in the Aleutian Islands approximately 1,000 years ago based on a perceived temporal shift in cranial morphology. However, the archaeological record indicates cultural, and presumed population, continuity for more than 4,000 years. We use mtDNA haplogroup data in the series of p…
Is the genetic structure of Gran Chaco populations unique? Interregional perspectives on native South American mitochondrial DNA variation
This study reevaluates the hypothesis in Demarchi et al. (2001 Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 115:199-203) that Gran Chaco peoples demonstrate a unique pattern of genetic diversity due to a distinct regional population history. Specifically, they found populations in the central part of the Gran Chaco, or Central Chaco, to have higher within- and lower between-population mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup frequency variation compared to populations in…
Ancestry, health, and lived experiences of enslaved Africans in 18th century Charleston: An osteobiographical analysis
OBJECTIVES: In 2013, the burials of 36 individuals of putative African ancestry were discovered during renovation of the Gaillard Center in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. The Charleston community facilitated a bioarchaeological and mitogenomic study to gain insights into the lives of these unknown persons, referred to as the Anson Street Ancestors, including their ancestry, health, and lived experiences in the 18th century. METHODS: Metric …
Population Genetic Structure of Traditional Populations in the Peruvian Central Andes and Implications for South American Population History
Molecular-based characterizations of Andean peoples are traditionally conducted in the service of elucidating continent-level evolutionary processes in South America. Consequently, genetic variation among "western" Andean populations is often represented in relation to variation among "eastern" Amazon and Orinoco River Basin populations. This west-east contrast in patterns of population genetic variation is typically attributed to large-scale phe…
A formal test of linguistic and genetic coevolution in native Central and South America
This paper investigates a mechanism of linguistic and genetic coevolution in Native Central and South America. This mechanism proposes that a process of population fissions, expansions into new territories, and isolation of ancestral and descendant groups will produce congruent language and gene trees. To evaluate this population fissions mechanism, we collected published mtDNA sequences for 1,381 individuals from 17 Native Central and South Amer…
The apportionment of human diversity revisited
OBJECTIVES: Studies of the apportionment of human genetic diversity have found that local populations harbor nearly as much diversity as the species as a whole. These studies have been a valuable cornerstone in rejecting race as a biological framework in anthropology. The current study presents new analyses that use updated statistical methods based on bifurcating trees to assess the structure of human genetic diversity and its implications for t…
Crossing at y/our own peril: Biocultural boundary crossing in anthropology
Biocultural approaches in anthropology originated from a desire to dissolve the nature/culture divide that is entrenched in the discipline. Whereas biocultural approaches were born under the umbrella of medical anthropology, by the late 1990s, biology-centered approaches to bioculturalism had been mostly taken up by human biologists in biological anthropology. It was at this point that biology-inclined approaches began to gel into an informal int…
Ancient DNA and bioarchaeological perspectives on European and African diversity and relationships on the colonial Delaware frontier
OBJECTIVES: Ancient DNA (aDNA) and standard osteological analyses applied to 11 skeletons at a late 17th to early 18th century farmstead site in Delaware to investigate the biological and social factors of settlement and slavery in colonial America. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Osteological analysis and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequencing were conducted for all individuals and the resulting data contextualized with archaeological and documentary evide…
Beyond Serial Founder Effects: The Impact of Admixture and Localized Gene Flow on Patterns of Regional Genetic Diversity
Geneticists have argued that the linear decay in within-population genetic diversity with increasing geographic distance from East Africa is best explained by a phylogenetic process of repeated founder effects, growth, and isolation. However, this serial founder effect (SFE) process has not yet been adequately vetted against other evolutionary processes that may also affect geospatial patterns of diversity. Additionally, studies of the SFE proces…
Population continuity or replacement? A novel computer simulation approach and its application to the numic expansion (Western Great Basin, USA)
In a previous study, Kaestle and Smith [Am J Phys Anthropol 115 ( 2001 ) 1–12] supported a recent (A.D. 1000) Numic expansion into the Great Basin region based on a molecular and statistical analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of ancient and modern native inhabitants of the region. Their statistical methodology could not rule out the possibility that observed differences in haplogroup frequencies are instead the result of long‐term microevoluti…
Upholding "good science" in human origins research: A response to Chan et al (2019)
The recent publication by Chan et al (2019) entitled “Human origins in a southern African palaeo-wetland and first migrations” fails to meet scientific standards for publication in two ways. First, it neglects its scientific duty to discuss the entire body of scientific evidence around human origins, which leads to unsupportable claims. Second, it reinforces racialized power dynamics within the science of human origins. We argue that the authors …
An Australasian test of the recent African origin theory using the WLH-50 calvarium
Is the genetic structure of Gran Chaco populations unique? Interregional perspectives on native South American mitochondrial DNA variation
This study reevaluates the hypothesis in Demarchi et al. (2001 Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 115:199-203) that Gran Chaco peoples demonstrate a unique pattern of genetic diversity due to a distinct regional population history. Specifically, they found populations in the central part of the Gran Chaco, or Central Chaco, to have higher within- and lower between-population mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup frequency variation compared to populations in…
A formal test of linguistic and genetic coevolution in native Central and South America
This paper investigates a mechanism of linguistic and genetic coevolution in Native Central and South America. This mechanism proposes that a process of population fissions, expansions into new territories, and isolation of ancestral and descendant groups will produce congruent language and gene trees. To evaluate this population fissions mechanism, we collected published mtDNA sequences for 1,381 individuals from 17 Native Central and South Amer…
Population continuity or replacement? A novel computer simulation approach and its application to the numic expansion (Western Great Basin, USA)
In a previous study, Kaestle and Smith [Am J Phys Anthropol 115 ( 2001 ) 1–12] supported a recent (A.D. 1000) Numic expansion into the Great Basin region based on a molecular and statistical analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of ancient and modern native inhabitants of the region. Their statistical methodology could not rule out the possibility that observed differences in haplogroup frequencies are instead the result of long‐term microevoluti…
Inferring Population Continuity Versus Replacement with aDNA: A Cautionary Tale from the Aleutian Islands
In The Aleutian and Commander Islands and Their Inhabitants (Philadelphia: Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1945), Hrdlička proposed a population replacement event in the Aleutian Islands approximately 1,000 years ago based on a perceived temporal shift in cranial morphology. However, the archaeological record indicates cultural, and presumed population, continuity for more than 4,000 years. We use mtDNA haplogroup data in the series of p…
The Problematic Relationship between Migration and Culture Change
Rethinking anthropological perspectives on migration
Population Genetic Structure of Traditional Populations in the Peruvian Central Andes and Implications for South American Population History
Molecular-based characterizations of Andean peoples are traditionally conducted in the service of elucidating continent-level evolutionary processes in South America. Consequently, genetic variation among "western" Andean populations is often represented in relation to variation among "eastern" Amazon and Orinoco River Basin populations. This west-east contrast in patterns of population genetic variation is typically attributed to large-scale phe…
Beyond Serial Founder Effects: The Impact of Admixture and Localized Gene Flow on Patterns of Regional Genetic Diversity
Geneticists have argued that the linear decay in within-population genetic diversity with increasing geographic distance from East Africa is best explained by a phylogenetic process of repeated founder effects, growth, and isolation. However, this serial founder effect (SFE) process has not yet been adequately vetted against other evolutionary processes that may also affect geospatial patterns of diversity. Additionally, studies of the SFE proces…
The apportionment of human diversity revisited
OBJECTIVES: Studies of the apportionment of human genetic diversity have found that local populations harbor nearly as much diversity as the species as a whole. These studies have been a valuable cornerstone in rejecting race as a biological framework in anthropology. The current study presents new analyses that use updated statistical methods based on bifurcating trees to assess the structure of human genetic diversity and its implications for t…
Social Identity in New Mexicans of Spanish-Speaking Descent Highlights Limitations of Using Standardized Ethnic Terminology in Research
In this study, we evaluated the extent to which regional history has shaped the social identity nomenclature in New Mexicans of Spanish-speaking descent (NMSD). We asked 507 NMSD to list the social-identity terms they used to describe themselves and their parents, and we examined the correspondence between these choices and family ties to the region, birthplace, and continental ancestry. NMSD frequently identified using the regional terms "Nuevom…
Ethics in biological anthropology
Ethics is defined as "moral principles or a system of these," or "moral principles, maxims, precepts or observations concerning these" (Ethics, 2017). For a discipline or a profession, these principles are often articulated in a code of ethics or a code of conduct. These codes express a professional society's understanding of the obligations, strictures and responsibilities of the organization and its members. For an individual, the codes set out…
Upholding "good science" in human origins research: A response to Chan et al (2019)
The recent publication by Chan et al (2019) entitled “Human origins in a southern African palaeo-wetland and first migrations” fails to meet scientific standards for publication in two ways. First, it neglects its scientific duty to discuss the entire body of scientific evidence around human origins, which leads to unsupportable claims. Second, it reinforces racialized power dynamics within the science of human origins. We argue that the authors …
Ancient DNA and bioarchaeological perspectives on European and African diversity and relationships on the colonial Delaware frontier
OBJECTIVES: Ancient DNA (aDNA) and standard osteological analyses applied to 11 skeletons at a late 17th to early 18th century farmstead site in Delaware to investigate the biological and social factors of settlement and slavery in colonial America. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Osteological analysis and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequencing were conducted for all individuals and the resulting data contextualized with archaeological and documentary evide…
Report from the AAPA President, other reports, and in memoriam
Ancestry, health, and lived experiences of enslaved Africans in 18th century Charleston: An osteobiographical analysis
OBJECTIVES: In 2013, the burials of 36 individuals of putative African ancestry were discovered during renovation of the Gaillard Center in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. The Charleston community facilitated a bioarchaeological and mitogenomic study to gain insights into the lives of these unknown persons, referred to as the Anson Street Ancestors, including their ancestry, health, and lived experiences in the 18th century. METHODS: Metric …
Crossing at y/our own peril: Biocultural boundary crossing in anthropology
Biocultural approaches in anthropology originated from a desire to dissolve the nature/culture divide that is entrenched in the discipline. Whereas biocultural approaches were born under the umbrella of medical anthropology, by the late 1990s, biology-centered approaches to bioculturalism had been mostly taken up by human biologists in biological anthropology. It was at this point that biology-inclined approaches began to gel into an informal int…
Intergenerational transmission of ancestry information in a mid-size city in Argentina
We examined the self-reported family trees of 288 adult Argentines from a mid-size city near Buenos Aires to evaluate how intergenerational transmission of ancestry information matched (or not) anonymized estimates of continental-level genetic ancestry. Intergenerational transmission of ancestry information was inferred from the content of the anonymized family trees, and continental-level ancestries were inferred from genomic information collect…
Ancient mitochondrial genomes from Coastal Patagonia: Population structure and human dispersal in the Southern Cone
Forensic and Genetic Research (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · Demography (10 works) · Population (10 works) · Biology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Genetics (8 works) · Genetics (8 works) · Race, Genetics, and Society (8 works) · Evolutionary biology (7 works)