Exploring adolescence as a key life history stage in bioarchaeology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24314176 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Lewis (0000-0001-6224-0278, Department of Archaeology University of Reading Reading UK) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 179 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 519-534 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Biological Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2692-7691 • E-ISSN: 2692-7691 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajpa.24615 |
| OpenAlex | W4295067148 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 151 |
Adolescence is a unique period in the life history of an individual. It is characterized by a myriad of changes that bioarchaeologists are only just coming to appreciate, related to sexual maturation, linear growth, immunological transformation, and emotional and cognitive development. New methods allow us to measure this age of transition through the stages of the adolescent growth, as a proxy for the physical development associated with sexual maturation (puberty). This review outlines ways bioarchaeologists may draw on research developments from the fields of human biology, evolutionary theory and neurobiology to advance a more holistic approach to the study of adolescence in the past. It considers current theoretical and analytical approaches to highlight the research potential of this critical stage of life history. This synthesis integrates the most recent research in the medical sciences concerned with body and brain development, and outlines the biological processes involved with sexual and physical maturation of the adolescent. The goal of this review is to help inform potentially rewarding areas of research that bioarchaeologists can contribute to and draw from, as well as the challenges and limitations, theoretical and methodological questions, and ways in which we can develop the study of adolescence in the discipline going forward.
Adolescence · Bioarchaeology · Brain development · Human evolution · Life history · Linear growth · Neurobiology · puberty · sexual maturation · skeletal development · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Paleopathology and ancient diseases · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
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High prevalence of adult and nonadult scurvy in an early agricultural transition site from Mainland Southeast Asia was associated with decreased survivorship
Palaeoanthropology and the study of pre-adult fossil remains
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New radiocarbon dates from early medieval cemeteries in central and northern Italy
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Puberty in medieval Veranes
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First successful detection of oestrogen, progesterone and testosterone in multiple human hard tissues, and their use as potential biomarkers of pregnancy
Pre-Adult Burials at Tombos
The Late Mesolithic juveniles of Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov, Russia
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An assessment of puberty status in adolescents from the European Upper Paleolithic
Assessing the impact of Roman occupation on England through the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis
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Maternal-perinatal morbidity and mortality associated with adolescent pregnancy in Latin America
Adolescent Brain Development
Growth at puberty
The Timing of Normal Puberty and the Age Limits of Sexual Precocity
Sex-specific, male-line transgenerational responses in humans
Sex determination of human remains from peptides in tooth enamel
Pubertal transitions in health
Evolution, development and timing of puberty
Developmental origins of chronic disease
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Adolescence
Osteobiography
The influence of chronic conditions and the environment on pubertal development. An example from medieval England
Smaller long bone cross-sectional size in people who died of tuberculosis
Insights on the paleoepidemiology of ancient tuberculosis from the structural analysis of postcranial remains from the Ligurian Neolithic (northwestern Italy)
Routledge Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood
Maternal capital and the metabolic ghetto
On the threshold of adulthood
Medieval menarche
Challenging the binary
Bioarchaeological evidence for adaptive plasticity and constraint
Germline epigenetic inheritance
Secular change in the timing of dental root maturation in Portuguese boys and girls
Age-specific mobility in an eighteenth century rural english parish
Conceptualizing Puberty as a Window of Opportunity for Impacting Health and Well‐Being Across the Life Span
Understanding the Role of Puberty in Structural and Functional Development of the Adolescent Brain
Understanding Puberty and Its Measurement
Emerging Genetic and Epigenetic Mechanisms Underlying Pubertal Maturation in Adolescence
Translating Insights Into the Molecular Mechanisms of Puberty From Animals to Humans
Puberty and the Evolution of Developmental Science
Puberty as a life history transition
Testing times
Menarche in intensively trained gymnasts, swimmers and tennis players
Historical Trends in the Age at Menarche and Menopause
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The New Biobehavioral Developmental Science of Puberty
A Case of Maternal and Perinatal Death in Neolithic Southern Vietnam, c. 2100–1050 BCE
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Sex estimation using sexually dimorphic amelogenin protein fragments in human enamel
The rachitic tooth
Stature and relative deprivation
The Lives and Deaths of Young Medieval Women
Work and the Adolescent in Medieval England ad 900–1550
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Sexual dimorphism in growth in the relative length of the forearm and relative knee height during adolescence
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Epiphyseal union at the innominate and lower limb in a modern Portuguese skeletal sample, and age estimation in adolescent and young adult male and female skeletons
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Bone morphologies and histories
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A dystocic childbirth in the Spanish Bronze Age
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Knock-knees
Timing of Pubertal Maturation in Girls
Indirect evidence for biological mortality bias in growth from two temporo-spatially distant samples of children
Death by twins
Bioarchaeological Evidence for the Basis of Small Adult Stature in Southern Africa
Vitamin D deficiency and the ancient city
| Citations per year | 7.33 |
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |