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Cheating death in prehistory: pathology, trauma, disability, and care during the archaic period in North Alabama

Simpson, Diana (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

Bioarchaeological studies exploring provision of care for the disabled in prehistoric societies often have received criticism on the basis of lack of evidence or inadequate rigorous inquiry. The recently introduced ...
Evaluation of the methodology for addressing commingled human remains from the Lewis Jones Cave Ossuary (1Sc42) in St. Clair, Alabama

Panakhyo, Maria Naiyana (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

The commingling of human remains continues to be a problem encountered by bioarchaeologists and forensic anthropologists. Commingling is not a recent phenomenon. In fact, taphonomic processes and human activity have created ...
Examining rural and urban cultural models of nervios in Honduras through a biocultural lens

Stein, Max Jacob (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

Biocultural medical anthropology connects health outcomes to the local ecology. Much research has examined how culture influences illness beliefs, cognitively held in cultural models which are schematic representations ...
Life history strategies, testosterone, and the anthropology of human development

Aronoff, Jacob (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

Life history theory was originally formulated in evolutionary biology to describe interspecies variation in life course development as a result of natural selection. Recently, some theorists in psychology and anthropology ...
"Nice ink, man": a biocultural, mixed methods approach to tattooing as costly honest signaling among southern women

Dominguez, Johnna Teresa (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

In this thesis I examine the influence of a cultural model of tattooing on psychological and biological stress in a sample of Southern tattooed women. The handicap principle of sexual selection states that a high risk ...
Social houses at Carson Mounds, 22-co-518 as evidenced by dental morphological analysis

James, Jenna (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

Social house theory offers an interpretative framework in which to understand the complex social organization of Mississippian era societies. This research focuses on the social organization demonstrated by the secondary ...
The right tool for scoring stress: testing the consistency of two bioarchaeological methods of scoring joint stress, osteoarthritis and entheseal changes, in a north Alabama Native American sample

Edsall, Shannon (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

Bioarchaeologists have assumed, with limited evidence, that osteoarthritis (OA) and entheseal changes (EC) develop due to skeletal stress. To test this, the optimal study would compare OA and EC in individuals of known ...

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