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Ageing and disease risk factors: A new paleoepidemiological methodology for understanding disease in the past Open
The methodology could be applied to a wide variety of diseases and for many past societies.
History, Archaeology, and Osteology in Conversation Open
This afterword considers the implications of the papers in this volume for osteoarchaeologial and archaeological studies of age and aging. It suggests that many offer cautionary tales for the archaeologist who approaches age as a series of…
Burned Fleshed or Dry? The Potential of Bioerosion to Determine the Pre-Burning Condition of Human Remains Open
The practice of cremation is often interpreted as an alternative to inhumation, taking place shortly after an individual’s death. However, cremation could be a final stage in complex mortuary practices, with previous steps that are obscure…
Osteobiographies: Local Biologies, Embedded Bodies, and Relational Persons Open
In this contribution I explore what osteobiographies represent by investigating them through the lens of local biologies, embedded bodies, and relational personhood. Rather than resulting from processes and events that happen to skeletons,…
4. Grandparents in the Bronze Age? Open
Evolutionary biology and ethnographic analogy suggest that grandparenting has been critical to the development of human life history and may even explain modern human longevity. However, the roles and functions of grandparents have not pre…
Ageing and the Body in Archaeology Open
The old are rarely the focus of research in archaeology. Older skeletonized bodies are hard to give a chronological age, and this seems to justify the lack of research focus. In this paper I argue that the old are not naturally invisible t…
Finding Alcatrazes and early Luso-African settlement on Santiago Island, Cape Verde Open
After the Portuguese discovered the Cape Verde Islands in AD 1456 they divided its main island, Santiago, into two governing captaincies. The founding settlement in the south-west, Cidade Velha, soon became the Islands’ capital and a thriv…