L O''Donnell
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 51715 |
|---|---|
| NOME | L O''Donnell |
| PRENOMES | L |
| SOBRENOME | O''Donnell |
| ASSINATURA | DONNELL L O |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of New Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4514-772X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1971 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Porous skeletal lesions in perspective
OBJECTIVE: Porous skeletal lesion (PSL) is a descriptive term for bone altered by macroscopic perforations or pits. This paper seeks to assist researchers in meaningfully interpreting PSLs by offering perspectives on the currently available imaging modalities and approaches to better evaluate these important lesions. As a macro-morphological category, PSL is diagnostically non-specific; such lesions can result from formative defects, resorptive a…
An Analysis of Muscle Quality and Its Relationship to Bone Density and Obesity in a Pediatric Autopsy Sample From New Mexico
Muscle quality is positively related to skeletal health in girls and negatively associated with MASLD in boys. These findings underscore the importance of early-life physical activity and structural context in shaping musculoskeletal health
Comparing Biodistance Estimates from Deciduous and Permanent Dental Morphology in the Pre-Spanish US Southwest
Biodistance analysis using dental nonmetric traits is a key method to examine population structure in the past. Researchers often favor permanent teeth rather than deciduous dentitions when examining biodistance in archaeological assemblages, despite being correlated. We compare the results of biodistance analyses using 79 permanent and 32 deciduous dental morphological traits from the ancestral remains of 351 individuals with permanent teeth and…
How Does Social Inequality Alter Relationships Between Porous Cranial Lesions and Mortality? Examining the Relationship Between Skeletal Indicators of Stress, Socioeconomic Status, and Survivorship in…
BACKGROUND: In prior exploration of modern and archeological populations, lower SES has been associated with an increased risk of mortality. However, SES is often difficult to ascertain in archeological populations. Thus, explorations of skeletal lesions and their association with mortality may be subject to confounding factors that alter the strength and/or direction of this association. METHODS: The present study uses data from a modern, docume…
Stature and Its Association With Physiological Stress Exposure in a Pediatric Autopsy Sample
INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND: Experiencing illnesses or other stressors may disrupt processes of growth and development throughout the different stages of prepubertal development. Stunted stature for age is one potential outcome from such disruption, with both the nature and timing of stressors playing a role in the development of stunting. This study explores whether stress events in utero or during birth, and prepubertal development have an impa…
The Relationship between Diet and Porous Cranial Lesions in the Southwest United States
Bioarchaeologists commonly record porous cranial lesions (PCLs). They have varied etiologies but are frequently associated with nutritional anemia without a differential diagnosis. This article provides a literature review, evaluates diet in the US Southwest over time, and identifies issues with associating PCLs with poor diet in this region. Generally, diet was adequate across time and space. Although maize was a dietary staple, other food items…
Biocultural and social determinants of ill health and early mortality in a New Mexican paediatric autopsy sample
Illness and mortality have social origins, and infants and children are especially susceptible to the impacts of adverse social experiences. Early-life stress (ELS) – physiological disruptions suffered by a developing organism – is incorporated into human biology through embodiment. This paper examines whether children who lived and died in New Mexico (2011–2019) embodied social determinants of health. Data were collected from 780 postmortem comp…
Mortuary Practices and the Importance of Rock-Shelters during the Early and Middle Holocene in the Southern Maya Mountains
Research at two rock-shelters in the Maya Mountains of southern Belize, Mayahak Cab Pek and Saki Tzul, documents their persistent use as mortuary spaces over 9000 years, spanning the end of the last ice age until the end of the Classic period. These sites offer a rare diachronic view of mortuary behaviors within a single region of the neotropics spanning from early foragers through a long interval of transitional farmers. Here, we provide the fir…
No relationship found between dental fluctuating asymmetry, birthweight, and birth term in two modern North American samples
Deciduous DFA does not predict aspects of birth phenotype associated with gestational stress. Birthweight and birth term are plastic relative to the more developmentally stable deciduous dentition, which may only subtly embody early life stress. We suggest that deciduous DFA should be utilized with caution in DOHaD studies until its relationship with gestational stress is clarified
Skeletal manifestations of disease experience
OBJECTIVES: Porous lesions of the orbit (cribra orbitalia [CO]) and cranial vault (porotic hyperostosis [PH]) are used as skeletal indicators of childhood stress. Because they are understudied in contemporary populations, their relationship to disease experience is poorly understood. This paper examines the relationship between length of childhood illness and CO/PH formation in a clinically documented sample. "Turning points," which identify the …
Do computed tomography findings agree with traditional osteological examination? The case of porous cranial lesions
Sex differences in linear enamel hypoplasia prevalence and frailty in Ancestral Puebloans
Increased dental fluctuating asymmetry is associated with active skeletal lesions, but not mortality hazards in the precontact Southwest United States
OBJECTIVE: This study examines whether individuals with higher dental fluctuating asymmetry (DFA) are frailer than those with lower DFA, by examining whether increased DFA is associated with skeletal lesion formation. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: 150 individuals with permanent teeth and 64 individuals with deciduous teeth. All individuals are Ancestral Puebloans from archaeological sites in modern-day New Mexico. We estimate DFA in three ways: (a) decid…
Inferring the Relationships of the Gallina and Pottery Mound Pueblo Populations Using Craniometric and Dental Morphological Biodistance
This article examines the biological relationships of two groups from the precontact Southwestern United States: the Gallina of Northern New Mexico and Pottery Mound Pueblo in the Middle Rio Grande region of New Mexico. These two groups existed at different times and differ considerably in their social conditions and cultural traditions. We examine geographic and temporal structure of relationships by testing an isolation by distance model. We al…
Sociocultural determinants of health and wealth in historic African Americans
In this study, we examine the impacts of individual ancestry and socioeconomic status (SES) on health in historic African Americans through bioarchaeological means. We estimate ancestry from dental morphology and SES from the costs of coffin hardware. We include 188 adult individuals from Freedman's Cemetery in Dallas, Texas, and 2,301 individuals of African and European descent for comparison. Freedman's Cemetery functioned as the only cemetery …
Cribra orbitalia and porotic hyperostosis are associated with respiratory infections in a contemporary mortality sample from New Mexico
OBJECTIVES: Cribra orbitalia (CO) and porotic hyperostosis (PH) are porous cranial lesions (PCLs) classically associated with iron-deficiency anemia in bioarchaeological contexts. However, recent studies indicate a need to reassess the interpretation of PCLs. This study addresses the potential health correlates of PCLs in a contemporary sample by examining relationships between the known cause of death (COD) and PCL presence/absence. METHODS: Thi…
Trade Relationships and Gene Flow at Pottery Mound Pueblo, New Mexico
Pottery Mound is a large Ancestral Puebloan site situated within the Middle Rio Grande (MRG) region of New Mexico. This article adds to our understanding of relationships between Pottery Mound, the Western Pueblos, and Mexico through use of biological distance analysis based on dental nonmetric traits. Extensive material and cultural influences, as well as migration events from Western Pueblos to Pottery Mound, have been proposed by several schol…
Indicators of stress and their association with frailty in the precontact Southwestern United States
OBJECTIVES: Physiological disturbances in early life have been shown to increase individual mortality risk and impact health in adulthood. This study examines frailty through analysis of lesion status of two commonly collected skeletal indicators of stress (cribra orbitalia [CO] and porotic hyperostosis [PH]) and their association with mortality risk in the precontact U.S. Southwest. Several predictions are addressed: (a) individuals with active …
Biological Distance Analysis and the Fate of the Gallina in the American Southwest
The Gallina heartland was abandoned around AD 1275. The fate of the Gallina people after this abandonment is not well understood. This study uses biological distance analysis to evaluate possible migratory patterns of the Gallina people after their decline. Is there evidence for population continuity of the Gallina in the Rio Grande Valley, or did cultural pressures drive them to more distant areas such as the Mogollon Rim or Greater Southwest? W…
Frequencies of Rare Incisor Variations Reflect Factors Influencing Precontact Population Relationships in Mexico and the American Southwest
Mexican prehistory is characterized by migration and population isolation in its earliest phase, followed by later inter‐population cultural interactions, such as politics and trade. While shared, common morphological variants are often informative about recent population events, rare trait variants have not been widely investigated to see whether they might be informative about earlier events. Here, we consider populations that show several rare…
West Coast Indians battle for rights
Cribra orbitalia and porotic hyperostosis are associated with respiratory infections in a contemporary mortality sample from New Mexico
OBJECTIVES: Cribra orbitalia (CO) and porotic hyperostosis (PH) are porous cranial lesions (PCLs) classically associated with iron-deficiency anemia in bioarchaeological contexts. However, recent studies indicate a need to reassess the interpretation of PCLs. This study addresses the potential health correlates of PCLs in a contemporary sample by examining relationships between the known cause of death (COD) and PCL presence/absence. METHODS: Thi…
Indicators of stress and their association with frailty in the precontact Southwestern United States
OBJECTIVES: Physiological disturbances in early life have been shown to increase individual mortality risk and impact health in adulthood. This study examines frailty through analysis of lesion status of two commonly collected skeletal indicators of stress (cribra orbitalia [CO] and porotic hyperostosis [PH]) and their association with mortality risk in the precontact U.S. Southwest. Several predictions are addressed: (a) individuals with active …
Trade Relationships and Gene Flow at Pottery Mound Pueblo, New Mexico
Pottery Mound is a large Ancestral Puebloan site situated within the Middle Rio Grande (MRG) region of New Mexico. This article adds to our understanding of relationships between Pottery Mound, the Western Pueblos, and Mexico through use of biological distance analysis based on dental nonmetric traits. Extensive material and cultural influences, as well as migration events from Western Pueblos to Pottery Mound, have been proposed by several schol…
Increased dental fluctuating asymmetry is associated with active skeletal lesions, but not mortality hazards in the precontact Southwest United States
OBJECTIVE: This study examines whether individuals with higher dental fluctuating asymmetry (DFA) are frailer than those with lower DFA, by examining whether increased DFA is associated with skeletal lesion formation. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: 150 individuals with permanent teeth and 64 individuals with deciduous teeth. All individuals are Ancestral Puebloans from archaeological sites in modern-day New Mexico. We estimate DFA in three ways: (a) decid…
Sociocultural determinants of health and wealth in historic African Americans
In this study, we examine the impacts of individual ancestry and socioeconomic status (SES) on health in historic African Americans through bioarchaeological means. We estimate ancestry from dental morphology and SES from the costs of coffin hardware. We include 188 adult individuals from Freedman's Cemetery in Dallas, Texas, and 2,301 individuals of African and European descent for comparison. Freedman's Cemetery functioned as the only cemetery …
Biological Distance Analysis and the Fate of the Gallina in the American Southwest
The Gallina heartland was abandoned around AD 1275. The fate of the Gallina people after this abandonment is not well understood. This study uses biological distance analysis to evaluate possible migratory patterns of the Gallina people after their decline. Is there evidence for population continuity of the Gallina in the Rio Grande Valley, or did cultural pressures drive them to more distant areas such as the Mogollon Rim or Greater Southwest? W…
Sex differences in linear enamel hypoplasia prevalence and frailty in Ancestral Puebloans
West Coast Indians battle for rights
Frequencies of Rare Incisor Variations Reflect Factors Influencing Precontact Population Relationships in Mexico and the American Southwest
Mexican prehistory is characterized by migration and population isolation in its earliest phase, followed by later inter‐population cultural interactions, such as politics and trade. While shared, common morphological variants are often informative about recent population events, rare trait variants have not been widely investigated to see whether they might be informative about earlier events. Here, we consider populations that show several rare…
West Coast Indians battle for rights
Frequencies of Rare Incisor Variations Reflect Factors Influencing Precontact Population Relationships in Mexico and the American Southwest
Mexican prehistory is characterized by migration and population isolation in its earliest phase, followed by later inter‐population cultural interactions, such as politics and trade. While shared, common morphological variants are often informative about recent population events, rare trait variants have not been widely investigated to see whether they might be informative about earlier events. Here, we consider populations that show several rare…
Biological Distance Analysis and the Fate of the Gallina in the American Southwest
The Gallina heartland was abandoned around AD 1275. The fate of the Gallina people after this abandonment is not well understood. This study uses biological distance analysis to evaluate possible migratory patterns of the Gallina people after their decline. Is there evidence for population continuity of the Gallina in the Rio Grande Valley, or did cultural pressures drive them to more distant areas such as the Mogollon Rim or Greater Southwest? W…
Indicators of stress and their association with frailty in the precontact Southwestern United States
OBJECTIVES: Physiological disturbances in early life have been shown to increase individual mortality risk and impact health in adulthood. This study examines frailty through analysis of lesion status of two commonly collected skeletal indicators of stress (cribra orbitalia [CO] and porotic hyperostosis [PH]) and their association with mortality risk in the precontact U.S. Southwest. Several predictions are addressed: (a) individuals with active …
Cribra orbitalia and porotic hyperostosis are associated with respiratory infections in a contemporary mortality sample from New Mexico
OBJECTIVES: Cribra orbitalia (CO) and porotic hyperostosis (PH) are porous cranial lesions (PCLs) classically associated with iron-deficiency anemia in bioarchaeological contexts. However, recent studies indicate a need to reassess the interpretation of PCLs. This study addresses the potential health correlates of PCLs in a contemporary sample by examining relationships between the known cause of death (COD) and PCL presence/absence. METHODS: Thi…
Trade Relationships and Gene Flow at Pottery Mound Pueblo, New Mexico
Pottery Mound is a large Ancestral Puebloan site situated within the Middle Rio Grande (MRG) region of New Mexico. This article adds to our understanding of relationships between Pottery Mound, the Western Pueblos, and Mexico through use of biological distance analysis based on dental nonmetric traits. Extensive material and cultural influences, as well as migration events from Western Pueblos to Pottery Mound, have been proposed by several schol…
Do computed tomography findings agree with traditional osteological examination? The case of porous cranial lesions
Sex differences in linear enamel hypoplasia prevalence and frailty in Ancestral Puebloans
Increased dental fluctuating asymmetry is associated with active skeletal lesions, but not mortality hazards in the precontact Southwest United States
OBJECTIVE: This study examines whether individuals with higher dental fluctuating asymmetry (DFA) are frailer than those with lower DFA, by examining whether increased DFA is associated with skeletal lesion formation. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: 150 individuals with permanent teeth and 64 individuals with deciduous teeth. All individuals are Ancestral Puebloans from archaeological sites in modern-day New Mexico. We estimate DFA in three ways: (a) decid…
Inferring the Relationships of the Gallina and Pottery Mound Pueblo Populations Using Craniometric and Dental Morphological Biodistance
This article examines the biological relationships of two groups from the precontact Southwestern United States: the Gallina of Northern New Mexico and Pottery Mound Pueblo in the Middle Rio Grande region of New Mexico. These two groups existed at different times and differ considerably in their social conditions and cultural traditions. We examine geographic and temporal structure of relationships by testing an isolation by distance model. We al…
Sociocultural determinants of health and wealth in historic African Americans
In this study, we examine the impacts of individual ancestry and socioeconomic status (SES) on health in historic African Americans through bioarchaeological means. We estimate ancestry from dental morphology and SES from the costs of coffin hardware. We include 188 adult individuals from Freedman's Cemetery in Dallas, Texas, and 2,301 individuals of African and European descent for comparison. Freedman's Cemetery functioned as the only cemetery …
Skeletal manifestations of disease experience
OBJECTIVES: Porous lesions of the orbit (cribra orbitalia [CO]) and cranial vault (porotic hyperostosis [PH]) are used as skeletal indicators of childhood stress. Because they are understudied in contemporary populations, their relationship to disease experience is poorly understood. This paper examines the relationship between length of childhood illness and CO/PH formation in a clinically documented sample. "Turning points," which identify the …
Biocultural and social determinants of ill health and early mortality in a New Mexican paediatric autopsy sample
Illness and mortality have social origins, and infants and children are especially susceptible to the impacts of adverse social experiences. Early-life stress (ELS) – physiological disruptions suffered by a developing organism – is incorporated into human biology through embodiment. This paper examines whether children who lived and died in New Mexico (2011–2019) embodied social determinants of health. Data were collected from 780 postmortem comp…
Mortuary Practices and the Importance of Rock-Shelters during the Early and Middle Holocene in the Southern Maya Mountains
Research at two rock-shelters in the Maya Mountains of southern Belize, Mayahak Cab Pek and Saki Tzul, documents their persistent use as mortuary spaces over 9000 years, spanning the end of the last ice age until the end of the Classic period. These sites offer a rare diachronic view of mortuary behaviors within a single region of the neotropics spanning from early foragers through a long interval of transitional farmers. Here, we provide the fir…
No relationship found between dental fluctuating asymmetry, birthweight, and birth term in two modern North American samples
Deciduous DFA does not predict aspects of birth phenotype associated with gestational stress. Birthweight and birth term are plastic relative to the more developmentally stable deciduous dentition, which may only subtly embody early life stress. We suggest that deciduous DFA should be utilized with caution in DOHaD studies until its relationship with gestational stress is clarified
How Does Social Inequality Alter Relationships Between Porous Cranial Lesions and Mortality? Examining the Relationship Between Skeletal Indicators of Stress, Socioeconomic Status, and Survivorship in…
BACKGROUND: In prior exploration of modern and archeological populations, lower SES has been associated with an increased risk of mortality. However, SES is often difficult to ascertain in archeological populations. Thus, explorations of skeletal lesions and their association with mortality may be subject to confounding factors that alter the strength and/or direction of this association. METHODS: The present study uses data from a modern, docume…
Stature and Its Association With Physiological Stress Exposure in a Pediatric Autopsy Sample
INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND: Experiencing illnesses or other stressors may disrupt processes of growth and development throughout the different stages of prepubertal development. Stunted stature for age is one potential outcome from such disruption, with both the nature and timing of stressors playing a role in the development of stunting. This study explores whether stress events in utero or during birth, and prepubertal development have an impa…
The Relationship between Diet and Porous Cranial Lesions in the Southwest United States
Bioarchaeologists commonly record porous cranial lesions (PCLs). They have varied etiologies but are frequently associated with nutritional anemia without a differential diagnosis. This article provides a literature review, evaluates diet in the US Southwest over time, and identifies issues with associating PCLs with poor diet in this region. Generally, diet was adequate across time and space. Although maize was a dietary staple, other food items…
Porous skeletal lesions in perspective
OBJECTIVE: Porous skeletal lesion (PSL) is a descriptive term for bone altered by macroscopic perforations or pits. This paper seeks to assist researchers in meaningfully interpreting PSLs by offering perspectives on the currently available imaging modalities and approaches to better evaluate these important lesions. As a macro-morphological category, PSL is diagnostically non-specific; such lesions can result from formative defects, resorptive a…
An Analysis of Muscle Quality and Its Relationship to Bone Density and Obesity in a Pediatric Autopsy Sample From New Mexico
Muscle quality is positively related to skeletal health in girls and negatively associated with MASLD in boys. These findings underscore the importance of early-life physical activity and structural context in shaping musculoskeletal health
Comparing Biodistance Estimates from Deciduous and Permanent Dental Morphology in the Pre-Spanish US Southwest
Biodistance analysis using dental nonmetric traits is a key method to examine population structure in the past. Researchers often favor permanent teeth rather than deciduous dentitions when examining biodistance in archaeological assemblages, despite being correlated. We compare the results of biodistance analyses using 79 permanent and 32 deciduous dental morphological traits from the ancestral remains of 351 individuals with permanent teeth and…
Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (18 obras) · Demography (12 obras) · Medicine (12 obras) · Geography (8 obras) · Population (7 obras) · Archaeology (6 obras) · Biology (6 obras) · Internal Medicine (6 obras) · Forensic and Genetic Research (5 obras) · Gerontology (5 obras)