The analysis of oral pathologies is routinely a part of bioarcheological and
paleopathological investigations. Oral health, while certainly interesting by itself, is also …

Comprehending violence among bioarchaeological and historical groups is a topic of recent
interest among biological anthropologists. This research examines trauma among African …

A reunião de dados originais e de revisões da literatura, numa abordagem multidisciplinar
praticamente inédita na arqueologia brasileira, forneceu subsídios para um melhor …

ABSTRACT The W. Montague Cobb skeletal collection, mainly comprised of African
Americans living in Washington, DC, before 1969, is an important collection for human …

Over many decades, paleopathologists have investigated malnutrition and health status
based on disruptions in dental development (Schulze, 1970; Hillson, 1996; Scott and Turner …

Although illegal in Texas in the early twentieth century for the bodies of indigents to be used
as medical cadavers, archival accounts document Dallas's early medical schools duplicity in …

A young adult female recovered from the Newburgh Colored Burial Ground (1830–1870)
exhibits evidence of a postmortem examination in which the calvarium was circumferentially …

The last 10,000 years have witnessed a handful of major adaptive transitions experienced
by the human species, the most recent, rapid, and violent of which was contact between …

Freedman's Cemetery was the primary burial ground for virtually all of the African American
community of Dallas, Texas, between 1869 and 1907. From 1991 through 1994, the Texas …

Despite the rise in African Diaspora bioarchaeology, poor preservation and sampling bias
has impeded Caribbean research. Paleodemography and infectious diseases are assessed …