Mark Hubbe
Biographic Data
| ID | 94716 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Hubbe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Hubbe |
| SIGNATURE | HUBBE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Católica del Norte |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4433-3942 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 71 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 454 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 70 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
A Review of Research Aims for Historical Anatomical Skeletal Collections in the United States
Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes
The latest steps of human evolution: What the hard evidence has to say about it
The latest periods of human evolution are a heated topic of debate and have been at the center of paleoanthropological discussions since the beginning of the field. In the last twenty years, new excavations increased the geographic range of paleoanthropological data, new fossil hominins of the last third of the Pleistocene were found, and old key fossils were redated by modern and more accurate methods. The new picture emerging from this research…
Revisiting the cranial variability of the Dmanisi hominins
The Dmanisi specimens represent the most diverse contemporaneous hominin fossils found at one single site and are key in understanding the first out -of- Africa dispersal and the origins of Homo erectus. Due to these reasons, they have]e been the focus of many studies in paleoanthropology in the last 30 years. However, there has not been any consensus on how to classify these fossils, nor has it been clarified how many species were co-living at t…
Craniofacial morphological diversity of North, Central, and South America: Implications for discussions about oral biology and health
Craniofacial morphology plays an important role in many aspects of the masticatory function and the oral health of individuals, and as such should be considered a baseline for studies that aim to integrate anthropological and dentistry practices that can improve oral health, dental hygiene, and care practices in populations from different biological and cultural backgrounds. This article presents a synthesis of our current understanding of the cr…
Reliability of reconstructed population survivorship from transition analysis age estimation
Skeletal age markers are often used to estimate age-at-death to reconstruct population survivorship in the past, which is essential to draw conclusions about population health, fertility, and mortality. Transition Analysis age estimation was developed to address common issues facing traditional age estimation methods such as age mimicry and broad ranges for middle and older aged adults. However, some studies have shown Transition Analysis' limita…
Emerging inequality in the San Pedro de Atacama oases (Chile): An investigation of entheseal patterns using Ancova and factorial Anova
Bioarcheologists have focused extensively over the past few decades on how to best investigate past activity, often concentrating on data collection protocols and more recently focusing on statistical approaches. Here, we complement ongoing studies focusing on emerging inequality during the Middle Period (AD 400-1000) in the San Pedro de Atacama oases (Chile) by investigating entheseal patterns among individuals (n = 210) interred in four cemeter…
The decade under review: Recent trends and challenges in the use of macroscopic age‐at‐death estimation methods in bioarchaeology
Accurate and precise age‐at‐death estimation methods are critical when studying past lifeways. However, adult age‐at‐death estimation is often difficult because of diverse physiologies, preservation, and timing of biological processes in target and reference populations. These challenges can complicate the comparison of results between studies, which can also be impacted by the training and method preference of each bioarchaeologist. In this pape…
Biological affinities of Brazilian pre-colonial coastal communities explored through bootstrapped biodistances of dental non-metric traits
Towards an interdisciplinary perspective for the study of human expansions and biocultural diversity in the Americas
Bounding Middle Period Cemetery Use in San Pedro De Atacama, Chile
The San Pedro de Atacama oases, located in northern Chile’s hyperarid Atacama Desert, have been occupied for at least 3000 years. Here, we examine cemetery use in the oases, with emphasis on the Middle Period (ca. AD 400–1000). By modeling of a large corpus (n=243) of radiocarbon dates, over 90% of which are direct AMS assays of human bone collagen, we attempt to establish a temporal framework by which to explore the establishment of formalized s…
Population history of Brazilian south and southeast shellmound builders inferred through dental morphology
OBJECTIVE: The Southeast and South Coast of Brazil was inhabited during most of the Holocene by shellmound builders. Although there are cultural differences in the archaeological record between regions, it is still debatable how these differences may relate to different population histories. Here, we contribute to this discussion by exploring dental morphological affinities between several regional series. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Dental morphology…
The accuracy of age estimation using transition analysis in the Hamann‐Todd collection
OBJECTIVES: Reconstructing demography of past populations using skeletal data is challenging when analyzing adults because the process of biological aging does not always reflect the individual's chronological age. A proposed solution to address the limitations of traditional age estimation methods is transition analysis (TA), a multifactorial method of age estimation. However, despite its methodological refinement, TA has varying degrees of accu…
The visible advances of Latin American biological anthropology
The Impact of dental wear on the analysis of morphological affinities based on dental non-metric traits
Dental wear is described as a limitation to dental morphological studies, as it obscures important crown trait features, resulting in significant differences on trait frequencies, an essential component for estimating biodistances. However, the actual impact of dental wear on biological distances still requires further characterization. We explore the impact of dental wear on morphological affinities for Brazilian pre-colonial series in the conte…
Beyond the Biocultural Approach: A Quantitative Assessment of the Use of Theory in Bioarchaeological Assessment of the Use of Theory in Bioarchaeological Literature from 2007 to 2018
A primary goal of bioarchaeology is to reconstruct the biocultural context of past societies, which is frequently achieved by incorporating interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks to help contextualize the skeletal record. This article reviews explicit uses of theory in 1,593 articles published in 12 English-language peer-reviewed journals between 2007 and 2018 to explore how bioarchaeologists have recently engaged with various theoretical frame…
Entrevista: Claudia Rodrigues-Carvalho
A entrevista com a Professora Cláudia Rodrigues-Carvalho pode ser acessada em:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tAvz3796LI
O papel da antropologia biológica na educação e na divulgação científica
O estudo de aspectos biológicos atrelados a fatores socioculturais na espécie humana tem sido o foco de várias pesquisas orientadas pela Antropologia Biológica. Com longo histórico de atuação e inúmeros laboratórios de pesquisa na Europa e nos Estados Unidos, a Antropologia Biológica ainda é menos representativa na América Latina e no contexto do Brasil particularmente. O potencial das pesquisas realizadas para promoção de impactos sociais positi…
Aging methods and age-at-death distributions: Does transition analysis call for a re-examination of bioarchaeological data
Age estimation of adult skeletal remains is notoriously difficult because the degenerative change of adult skeletons is far more variable across individuals, populations, and anatomical regions than the developmental changes that occur during growth. Additionally, age mimicry makes it difficult to discern between the true population age structure and the age structure produced as an artifact of the reference sample. Transition analysis is an age …
Antropologia Biológica: A Apresentação De Um Dossiê
Apresentação do Dossiê
Entrevista: Walter Neves
A entrevista com o Prof. Walter Neves pode ser acessada em: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-uayh2v91s
El oasis de Quillagua, la frontera interior: Tres siglos de arqueología (desierto de Atacama, norte de Chile)
The Precarious State of Subsistence: Reevaluating Dental Pathological Lesions Associated with Agricultural and Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways
Numerous bioarchaeological studies emphasize an increase in dental lesions associated with the transition to agricultural subsistence. Over the years, this diachronic trend has led to the conflation and oversimplification of specific dental indicators of oral health with broad subsistence strategies, emphasizing intergroup variation at the expense of intragroup variation. In order to explore such hidden variation, this metastudy uses published da…
Estudios Atacameños hoy y los desafíos del futuro
Comparative Study of Pastoral Property Regimes in Africa Offers No Support for Economic Defensibility Model
The economic defensibility model explains human territoriality by considering the costs and benefits of defending resources that vary in density and predictability. We conducted a comparative study of 30 pastoral societies in Africa to explain the variation in tenure systems using the economic defensibility model. In particular, we examined under what environmental conditions we find open property regimes versus common property regimes. In additi…
The nutrition transition in amazonia: Rapid economic change and its impact on growth and development in Ribeirinhos
The goal of this longitudinal study was to assess the impact of economic change and increased market integration on subsistence strategies, living conditions, growth, and nutritional status of Ribeirinhos living in the rural Amazon, Brazil. Data on weight, height, skinfolds, and circumferences, as well as data on economic strategies and living conditions were collected from 469 individuals in 2002 and 429 in 2009. Of these, 204 individuals were m…
Paleoamerican morphology in the context of European and East Asian late Pleistocene variation: Implications for human dispersion into the new world
Early American crania show a different morphological pattern from the one shared by late Native Americans. Although the origin of the diachronic morphological diversity seen on the continents is still debated, the distinct morphology of early Americans is well documented and widely dispersed. This morphology has been described extensively for South America, where larger samples are available. Here we test the hypotheses that the morphology of Ear…
Early Holocene human skeletal remains from Sumidouro Cave, Lagoa Santa, Brazil: History of discoveries, geological and chronological context, and comparative cranial morphology
Testing modern human out-of-Africa dispersal models and implications for modern human origins
Early Holocene human skeletal remains from Cerca Grande, Lagoa Santa, Central Brazil, and the origins of the first Americans
We present the results of comparative multivariate morphological analyses based on nine skulls from Cerca Grande. The site is in the Lagoa Santa karst in Central Brazil, a key area for understanding the peopling of the Americas. The region has several archaeological sites with excellent preservation of late Pleistocene and early Holocene material culture and human skeletal remains. Stratigraphic association and direct dating of the Cerca Grande h…
Postmarital Residence Practice in Southern Brazilian Coastal Groups: Continuity and Change
The coastal plains of the States of Paraná and Santa Catarina, in Southern Brazil, were first settled around 6000 B.P. by shellmound builders, a successful fisher-hunter-gatherer population that inhabited the coastal lowlands practically unchanged for almost five thousand years. Shellmounds were typically occupied as residential sites as well as cemeteries, andare usually associated with rich alimentary zones. Around 1200 B.P., the first evidence…
The Sequence of Human Occupation in the Atacama Oases, Chile: A Radiocarbon Chronology Based on Human Skeletal Remains
The San Pedro de Atacama oases have been permanently occupied since ca. 2500 B.P. and over this time developed a rich culture that was intertwined with social developments in the south-central Andes. However, despite decades of archaeological research, the region still lacks a strong chronological framework based on absolute dates. Here we present 53 new AMS14C dates from osteological remains from San Pedro de Atacama, in order to contribute to a…
Dental health in Northern Chile's Atacama oases: Evaluating the Middle Horizon (AD 500–1000) impact on local diet
As one of the few areas apt for horticulture in Northern Chile's arid landscape, the prehistory of the Atacama oases is deeply enmeshed with that of the inter‐regional networks that promoted societal development in the south central Andes. During the Middle Horizon (AD 500–1000), local populations experienced a cultural apex associated with a substantial increase in inter‐regional interaction, population density, and quantity and quality of mortu…
A new early Holocene human skeleton from Brazil: Implications for the settlement of the New World
Craniometric Similarities Within and Between Human Populations in Comparison with Neutral Genetic Data
The statement that pairs of individuals from different populations are often more genetically similar than pairs from the same population is a widespread idea inside and outside the scientific community. Witherspoon et al. ["Genetic similarities within and between human populations," Genetics 176:351-359 (2007)] proposed an index called the dissimilarity fraction (ω) to access in a quantitative way the validity of this statement for genetic syste…
Human skeletal remains from Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia: A case of Paleoamerican morphology late survival in South America
Human skeletal remains of the first Americans are scarce, especially in North America. In South America the situation is less dramatic. Two important archaeological regions have generated important collections that allow the analysis of the cranial morphological variation of the Early Americans: Lagoa Santa, Brazil, and Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia. Human crania from the former region have been studied by one of us (WAN) and collaborators, showing …
Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: The archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil)
The cranial morphology of the B otocudo I ndians, B razil
The Botocudo Indians were hunter‐gatherer groups that occupied the East‐Central regions of Brazil decimated during the colonial period in the country. During the 19th century, craniometric studies suggested that the Botocudo resembled more the Paleoamerican population of Lagoa Santa than typical Native Americans groups. These results suggest that the Botocudo Indians might represent a population that retained the biological characteristics of ear…
Cranial morphological diversity of early, middle, and late H olocene B razilian groups: Implications for human dispersion in B razil
The history of human occupation in Brazil dates to at least 14 kyr BP, and the country has the largest record of early human remains from the continent. Despite the importance and richness of Brazilian human skeletal collections, the biological relationships between groups and their implications for knowledge about human dispersion in the country have not been properly explored. Here, we present a comprehensive assessment of the morphological aff…
Zuzu” strikes again—Morphological affinities of the early holocene human skeleton from Toca dos Coqueiros, Piaui, Brazil
The Serra da Capivara National Park in northeastern Brazil is one of the richest archaeological regions in South America. Nonetheless, so far only two paleoindian skeletons have been exhumed from the local rockshelters. The oldest one (9870 ± 50 BP; CAL 11060 ± 50), uncovered in Toca dos Coqueiros and known as “Zuzu,” represents a rare opportunity to explore the biological relationships of paleoindian groups living in northeastern Brazil. As prev…
Issues of affinity: Exploring population structure in the middle and regional developments periods of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
The Middle Period (AD 400–1000) in northern Chile's Atacama oases is characterized by an increase in social complexity and regional interaction, much of which was organized around the power and impact of the Tiwanaku polity. Despite the strong cultural influence of Tiwanaku and numerous other groups evident in interactions with Atacameños, the role of immigration into the oases during this period is unclear. While archaeological and bioarchaeolog…
Eating out or dining in: Modeling diverse dietary strategies in the Middle Period, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
The Middle Period of the Atacama oases, North Chile, has been characterized as a time of peace, uniform abundance, and widespread access to exotic materials. In the present work, we test this notion through a comparison of Middle Period human isotopic data (δ13Cco, δ15Nco, and δ13Cap) representing two distinct ayllus, Solcor and Tchecar, in the San Pedro de Atacama oases. We employ Bayesian mixture modeling of individual-level isotopic data to qu…
Aging methods and age-at-death distributions: Does transition analysis call for a re-examination of bioarchaeological data
Age estimation of adult skeletal remains is notoriously difficult because the degenerative change of adult skeletons is far more variable across individuals, populations, and anatomical regions than the developmental changes that occur during growth. Additionally, age mimicry makes it difficult to discern between the true population age structure and the age structure produced as an artifact of the reference sample. Transition analysis is an age …
Comparisons of statistical techniques to assess age‐related skeletal markers in bioarchaeology
OBJECTIVES: Many authors argue that inconsistencies between studies of skeletal markers are based on different data collection protocols, especially when comparing age-related markers such as osteoarthritis. Less attention is given to the choice of statistical techniques that are used to test the hypotheses associated with the data. This paper addresses how different statistical techniques compare the prevalence of age-related skeletal indicators…
Modeling diet in times of change: The case of Quitor, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
The accuracy of age estimation using transition analysis in the Hamann‐Todd collection
OBJECTIVES: Reconstructing demography of past populations using skeletal data is challenging when analyzing adults because the process of biological aging does not always reflect the individual's chronological age. A proposed solution to address the limitations of traditional age estimation methods is transition analysis (TA), a multifactorial method of age estimation. However, despite its methodological refinement, TA has varying degrees of accu…
Isotopic Evidence for Marine Consumption and Mobility in the Atacama Desert (Quillagua, Northern Chile)
Archaeological research in the Atacama Desert has recovered evidence of considerable cultural variability. This variability seems to have increased during the Late Intermediate Period (AD 950-1400). The oasis of Quillagua, located at the margins of the Loa River in northern Chile, between the Andes and the coast (70 km from the Pacific Ocean), has shown important evidence regarding this cultural diversity. The variety in the archaeological eviden…
Technical note: A linear model for predicting δ 13 C protein
Objective : Development of a model for the prediction of δ 13 C protein from δ 13 C collagen and Δ 13 C ap‐co . Model‐generated values could, in turn, serve as “consumer” inputs for multisource mixture modeling of paleodiet. Methods : Linear regression analysis of previously published controlled diet data facilitated the development of a mathematical model for predicting δ 13 C protein (and an experimentally generated error term) from isotopic da…
Morfologia craniana dos remanescentes ósseos humanos da Lapa do Santo, Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, Brasil: Implicações para o povoamento das Américas
A região cárstica de Lagoa Santa tem sido de suma importância para as discussões sobre o tempo e o modo da dispersão dos primeiros americanos. A Lapa do Santo, escavada na última década, originou uma das maiores coleções de esqueletos humanos desta região. Neste trabalho, investigamos as afinidades morfológicas dos esqueletos da Lapa do Santo com outras amostras esqueletais de Lagoa Santa e da Colômbia, contextualizando-as dentro da variação morf…
"Estado de conservación y contextualización cronológica de la Colección Osteológica "Gustavo Le Paige
Entre 1950 y 1970 el sacerdote Gustavo Le Paige excav una de las mayores colecciones osteolgicas de Amrica Latina, que ha llamado la atencin de muchos investigadores en los ltimos 40 aos. En sus notas de terreno Le Paige consigna la exhumacin de 5482
Early Holocene human skeletal remains from Cerca Grande, Lagoa Santa, Central Brazil, and the origins of the first Americans
We present the results of comparative multivariate morphological analyses based on nine skulls from Cerca Grande. The site is in the Lagoa Santa karst in Central Brazil, a key area for understanding the peopling of the Americas. The region has several archaeological sites with excellent preservation of late Pleistocene and early Holocene material culture and human skeletal remains. Stratigraphic association and direct dating of the Cerca Grande h…
Influencia de Tiwanaku en la calidad de vida biológica de la población prehistórica de San Pedro de Atacama
Se examinan cuatro momentos de la prehistoria de San Pedro de Atacama, con el objeto de calificar el impacto de la influencia Tiwanaku en una población local. Fueron realizados estudios osteobiográficos en 161 individuos de los cementerios Solcor-3, Coyo-3 y Quitor-6, representativos de los períodos pre-Tiwanaku (Fases Sequitor, Quitor), Tiwanaku (Fase Coyo; auge de influencia altiplánica), Tiwanaku Final (final Fase Coyo) y post-Tiwanaku (Fase Y…
Cranial morphology of early Americans from Lagoa Santa, Brazil: Implications for the settlement of the New World
Comparative morphological studies of the earliest human skeletons of the New World have shown that, whereas late prehistoric, recent, and present Native Americans tend to exhibit a cranial morphology similar to late and modern Northern Asians (short and wide neurocrania; high, orthognatic and broad faces; and relatively high and narrow orbits and noses), the earliest South Americans tend to be more similar to present Australians, Melanesians, and…
A new early Holocene human skeleton from Brazil: Implications for the settlement of the New World
Zuzu” strikes again—Morphological affinities of the early holocene human skeleton from Toca dos Coqueiros, Piaui, Brazil
The Serra da Capivara National Park in northeastern Brazil is one of the richest archaeological regions in South America. Nonetheless, so far only two paleoindian skeletons have been exhumed from the local rockshelters. The oldest one (9870 ± 50 BP; CAL 11060 ± 50), uncovered in Toca dos Coqueiros and known as “Zuzu,” represents a rare opportunity to explore the biological relationships of paleoindian groups living in northeastern Brazil. As prev…
Human skeletal remains from Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia: A case of Paleoamerican morphology late survival in South America
Human skeletal remains of the first Americans are scarce, especially in North America. In South America the situation is less dramatic. Two important archaeological regions have generated important collections that allow the analysis of the cranial morphological variation of the Early Americans: Lagoa Santa, Brazil, and Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia. Human crania from the former region have been studied by one of us (WAN) and collaborators, showing …
Early Holocene human skeletal remains from Sumidouro Cave, Lagoa Santa, Brazil: History of discoveries, geological and chronological context, and comparative cranial morphology
On the Misclassification of Human Crania: Are There Any Implications for Assumptions about Human Variation
Climate Signatures in the Morphological Differentiation of Worldwide Modern Human Populations
The ability of cranial morphology to reflect population/phylogenetic history, and the degree to which it might be influenced by environmental factors and selection pressures have been widely discussed. Recent consensus views cranial morphology as largely indicative of population history in humans, with some anatomical cranial regions/measurements being more informative on population history, while others being under selection pressure. We test ea…
Postmarital Residence Practice in Southern Brazilian Coastal Groups: Continuity and Change
The coastal plains of the States of Paraná and Santa Catarina, in Southern Brazil, were first settled around 6000 B.P. by shellmound builders, a successful fisher-hunter-gatherer population that inhabited the coastal lowlands practically unchanged for almost five thousand years. Shellmounds were typically occupied as residential sites as well as cemeteries, andare usually associated with rich alimentary zones. Around 1200 B.P., the first evidence…
Craniometric Similarities Within and Between Human Populations in Comparison with Neutral Genetic Data
The statement that pairs of individuals from different populations are often more genetically similar than pairs from the same population is a widespread idea inside and outside the scientific community. Witherspoon et al. ["Genetic similarities within and between human populations," Genetics 176:351-359 (2007)] proposed an index called the dissimilarity fraction (ω) to access in a quantitative way the validity of this statement for genetic syste…
Insights into Holocene megafauna survival and extinction in southeastern Brazil from new AMS 14 C dates
The extinction of late Quaternary megafauna in South America has been extensively debated in past decades. The majority of the hypotheses explaining this phenomenon argue that the extinction was the result of human activities, environmental changes, or even synergism between the two. Although still limited, a good chronological framework is imperative to discuss the plausibility of the available hypotheses. Here we present six new direct AMS 14 C…
Paleoamerican morphology in the context of European and East Asian late Pleistocene variation: Implications for human dispersion into the new world
Early American crania show a different morphological pattern from the one shared by late Native Americans. Although the origin of the diachronic morphological diversity seen on the continents is still debated, the distinct morphology of early Americans is well documented and widely dispersed. This morphology has been described extensively for South America, where larger samples are available. Here we test the hypotheses that the morphology of Ear…
The nutrition transition in amazonia: Rapid economic change and its impact on growth and development in Ribeirinhos
The goal of this longitudinal study was to assess the impact of economic change and increased market integration on subsistence strategies, living conditions, growth, and nutritional status of Ribeirinhos living in the rural Amazon, Brazil. Data on weight, height, skinfolds, and circumferences, as well as data on economic strategies and living conditions were collected from 469 individuals in 2002 and 429 in 2009. Of these, 204 individuals were m…
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"Estado de conservación y contextualización cronológica de la Colección Osteológica "Gustavo Le Paige
Entre 1950 y 1970 el sacerdote Gustavo Le Paige excav una de las mayores colecciones osteolgicas de Amrica Latina, que ha llamado la atencin de muchos investigadores en los ltimos 40 aos. En sus notas de terreno Le Paige consigna la exhumacin de 5482
Dental health in Northern Chile's Atacama oases: Evaluating the Middle Horizon (AD 500–1000) impact on local diet
As one of the few areas apt for horticulture in Northern Chile's arid landscape, the prehistory of the Atacama oases is deeply enmeshed with that of the inter‐regional networks that promoted societal development in the south central Andes. During the Middle Horizon (AD 500–1000), local populations experienced a cultural apex associated with a substantial increase in inter‐regional interaction, population density, and quantity and quality of mortu…
Issues of affinity: Exploring population structure in the middle and regional developments periods of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
The Middle Period (AD 400–1000) in northern Chile's Atacama oases is characterized by an increase in social complexity and regional interaction, much of which was organized around the power and impact of the Tiwanaku polity. Despite the strong cultural influence of Tiwanaku and numerous other groups evident in interactions with Atacameños, the role of immigration into the oases during this period is unclear. While archaeological and bioarchaeolog…
The Sequence of Human Occupation in the Atacama Oases, Chile: A Radiocarbon Chronology Based on Human Skeletal Remains
The San Pedro de Atacama oases have been permanently occupied since ca. 2500 B.P. and over this time developed a rich culture that was intertwined with social developments in the south-central Andes. However, despite decades of archaeological research, the region still lacks a strong chronological framework based on absolute dates. Here we present 53 new AMS14C dates from osteological remains from San Pedro de Atacama, in order to contribute to a…
Intra‐population variation in anemia status and its relationship to economic status and self‐perceived health in the Mexican Family Life Survey: Implications for bioarchaeology
Recently scholars have advocated for the use of a critical biocultural approach in bioarchaeology, where osteological and dental markers of stress are used to understand the broader biosocial context of past populations. However, the ability to accomplish this task rests on the assumption that ultimate‐level environmental stressors and well‐being in the past can be reconstructed from the prevalence of pathologies in skeletal collections. Here we …
Cranial morphological diversity of early, middle, and late H olocene B razilian groups: Implications for human dispersion in B razil
The history of human occupation in Brazil dates to at least 14 kyr BP, and the country has the largest record of early human remains from the continent. Despite the importance and richness of Brazilian human skeletal collections, the biological relationships between groups and their implications for knowledge about human dispersion in the country have not been properly explored. Here, we present a comprehensive assessment of the morphological aff…
Morfologia craniana dos remanescentes ósseos humanos da Lapa do Santo, Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, Brasil: Implicações para o povoamento das Américas
A região cárstica de Lagoa Santa tem sido de suma importância para as discussões sobre o tempo e o modo da dispersão dos primeiros americanos. A Lapa do Santo, escavada na última década, originou uma das maiores coleções de esqueletos humanos desta região. Neste trabalho, investigamos as afinidades morfológicas dos esqueletos da Lapa do Santo com outras amostras esqueletais de Lagoa Santa e da Colômbia, contextualizando-as dentro da variação morf…
Cranial Morphology of Early South Americans: Implications for Understanding Human Dispersion into the New World
Walter Neves and the Pursuit of the First South Americans
At the 2014 American Association of Physical Anthropologists meetings in Calgary, Barbara Piperata and I organized a symposium to commemorate Prof. Walter Neves' contributions to the development of
Technical note: A linear model for predicting δ 13 C protein
Objective : Development of a model for the prediction of δ 13 C protein from δ 13 C collagen and Δ 13 C ap‐co . Model‐generated values could, in turn, serve as “consumer” inputs for multisource mixture modeling of paleodiet. Methods : Linear regression analysis of previously published controlled diet data facilitated the development of a mathematical model for predicting δ 13 C protein (and an experimentally generated error term) from isotopic da…
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