While biogeochemical analyses of residential history have revolutionized the study of paleomobility, the monolithic categories of “local” and “non-local” obscure a great deal of important variation in individual migrant experiences. Furthermore, these binarized designations may not always provide a culturally salient indicator of social difference. Here, the authors take a novel approach to integrating previously published biogeochemical 87Sr/86Sr data with intra-site biodistance analysis of cervicometric dimensions in order to access a diversity of migration experiences within both “local” and “non-l ocal” individuals (n = 73) at Non-Grid 4, a ritual shrine site in Epiclassic (600– 900 C.E.) central Mexico, where a minimum of 180 individuals were sacrificed and interred. We generate an estimated phenotypic distance matrix using Mahalanobis distances (d2) to identify possible nth generation migrants among individuals who appeared biogeochemically “local.” The integration of biogeochemical and cervicometric data thus adds a time depth to their analyses of paleomobility in ancient Mexico beyond first-generation migrants identified by biogeochemical methods alone. The article also examines “non-local” sacrificial victims’ phenotypic affinities and available 87Sr/86Sr data to reconstruct possible migration networks and motivations for migrant individuals relocating to central Mexico during the Epiclassic. This broader contextualization of migrant experiences allows the authors to consider how and why these migrants’ lives ended in violence in their new homeland more holistically. Si bien los análisis biogeoquímicos de la historia residencial han revolucionado el estudio de la paleomovilidad, las categorías monolíticas de “local” y “no local” oscurecen una gran cantidad de variaciones importantes en las experiencias individuales de los migrantes. Además, es posible que estas designaciones binarizadas no siempre proporcionen un indicador culturalmente destacado de la diferencia social. Aquí, tomamos un enfoque nove-doso para integrar datos biogeoquímicos 87Sr/86Sr publicados previamente con análisis de biodistancia dentro del sitio de dimensiones cervicométricas para acceder a una diversidad de experiencias de migración dentro de individuos “locales” y “no locales” (n = 73) en Non-Grid 4, un santuario ritual fechado al Epiclásico (600–900 a.C.) en el centro de México donde se sacrificaron y enterraron un mínimo de 180 individuos. Generamos una matriz de distancia fenotípica estimada utilizando las distancias de Mahalanobis (d2) para identificar posibles migrantes de enésima generación entre individuos que parecían biogeoquímicamente “locales.” La integración de datos biogeoquímicos y cervicométricos agrega una profundidad temporal a nuestros análisis de paleomovilidad en el México antiguo más allá de los migrantes de primera generación identificados solo con métodos biogeoquímicos. También examinamos las afinidades fenotípicas de las víctimas sacrific
{"title":"Beyond “Non-Local”","authors":"Sofía I Pacheco-Forés, Christopher Morehart","doi":"10.5744/bi.2022.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/bi.2022.0038","url":null,"abstract":"While biogeochemical analyses of residential history have revolutionized the study of paleomobility, the monolithic categories of “local” and “non-local” obscure a great deal of important variation in individual migrant experiences. Furthermore, these binarized designations may not always provide a culturally salient indicator of social difference. Here, the authors take a novel approach to integrating previously published biogeochemical 87Sr/86Sr data with intra-site biodistance analysis of cervicometric dimensions in order to access a diversity of migration experiences within both “local” and “non-l ocal” individuals (n = 73) at Non-Grid 4, a ritual shrine site in Epiclassic (600– 900 C.E.) central Mexico, where a minimum of 180 individuals were sacrificed and interred. We generate an estimated phenotypic distance matrix using Mahalanobis distances (d2) to identify possible nth generation migrants among individuals who appeared biogeochemically “local.” The integration of biogeochemical and cervicometric data thus adds a time depth to their analyses of paleomobility in ancient Mexico beyond first-generation migrants identified by biogeochemical methods alone. The article also examines “non-local” sacrificial victims’ phenotypic affinities and available 87Sr/86Sr data to reconstruct possible migration networks and motivations for migrant individuals relocating to central Mexico during the Epiclassic. This broader contextualization of migrant experiences allows the authors to consider how and why these migrants’ lives ended in violence in their new homeland more holistically. \u0000Si bien los análisis biogeoquímicos de la historia residencial han revolucionado el estudio de la paleomovilidad, las categorías monolíticas de “local” y “no local” oscurecen una gran cantidad de variaciones importantes en las experiencias individuales de los migrantes. Además, es posible que estas designaciones binarizadas no siempre proporcionen un indicador culturalmente destacado de la diferencia social. Aquí, tomamos un enfoque nove-doso para integrar datos biogeoquímicos 87Sr/86Sr publicados previamente con análisis de biodistancia dentro del sitio de dimensiones cervicométricas para acceder a una diversidad de experiencias de migración dentro de individuos “locales” y “no locales” (n = 73) en Non-Grid 4, un santuario ritual fechado al Epiclásico (600–900 a.C.) en el centro de México donde se sacrificaron y enterraron un mínimo de 180 individuos. Generamos una matriz de distancia fenotípica estimada utilizando las distancias de Mahalanobis (d2) para identificar posibles migrantes de enésima generación entre individuos que parecían biogeoquímicamente “locales.” La integración de datos biogeoquímicos y cervicométricos agrega una profundidad temporal a nuestros análisis de paleomovilidad en el México antiguo más allá de los migrantes de primera generación identificados solo con métodos biogeoquímicos. También examinamos las afinidades fenotípicas de las víctimas sacrific","PeriodicalId":92991,"journal":{"name":"Bioarchaeology international","volume":"84 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139440744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rebecca Redfern, S. DeWitte, Joseph T. Hefner, Dorothy Kim
We investigate whether hazards of death from plague and physiological stress at a fourteenth-century plague cemetery (Royal Mint, London) differed between populations using N = 49 adults whose affiliation was established using macromorphoscopic traits. Compared to a nonplague cemetery (N = 96), there was a greater proportion of people of estimated African affiliation in the plague burials. Cox proportional hazards analysis revealed higher hazards of death from plague for those with estimated African affiliation. There were higher rates of linear enamel hypoplasia in those with estimated African affiliation, but this finding is not statistically significant. These results provide the first evidence that hazards of plague death were higher for people of estimated African affiliation compared to other affiliations, possibly because of existing inequalities, in addition to migration (free or forced) outcomes. These findings may reflect premodern structural racism’s devastating effects. Investigamos si los riesgos de la muerte resultando de la peste y estrés fisiológico en un cementerio de la peste del siglo XIV (Royal Mint, Londres) son diferente entre poblaciones de adultos (N = 49) quienes afiliación estuvieron establecido utilizando rasgos macromorfoscópicos. En comparación con un cementerio no asociado con la peste (N = 96), había una proporción más grande de gente estimado tener afiliación africana en los entierros asociados con la peste. Análisis de riesgos proporcional de Cox indicaron que había un riesgo de muerte de la plaga más alto por individuos estimados tener afiliación africana. Había índices más grandes de hipoplasia de esmalte dental en individuos de afiliación africana, pero el nivel estadístico no fue significativo. Los resultados demuestran la primera evidencia que los riesgos de la muerte de la peste fueron más altos por gente de afiliación africana en comparación a otras afinidades, posiblemente como resultado de disparidades sociales en combinación con los efectos de migración (libre o forzada). Los resultados se pueden reflejar las consecuencias devastadoras del racismo estructural premoderno.
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Julie K. Wesp, Melanie J. Miller, Daniela Trujillo Hassan, Felipe Gaitán Ammann
This research explores how bone isotopic data (δ13C, δ15N), in combination with analyses of dental pathology, dental calculus, and archival research, can illustrate relationships between food, colonization, social identities, and the norms of religious life in Colonial and Republican Bogotá, Colombia. We analyze skeletal remains from the San Ignacio Jesuit Church, an important colonial landmark that has served as a space of sacred burial for 400 years. Through our multidisciplinary approach to variables such as social status and membership in a religious order, we show how the colonization of bodies and minds transformed the way that people mobilized food as a symbol of social identity, often in unexpected ways. For example, Jesuit priests consumed significant amounts of meat in their diets, which contravenes notions of piety and vows of poverty typical of their congregation. Similarly, there are varying levels of diversity in the plants being consumed among different segments of the local population, suggesting deliberate choices around the inclusion of native or foreign species in people’s diets. In the early Republican period (nineteenth century), we see a difference in food choices among local elites, along with the adoption of new oral hygiene practices, as embodying new cultural notions of modernity.Esta investigación explora cómo los datos isotópicos (δ13C y δ15N) extraídos de restos óseos humanos pueden interpretarse a la luz de otras categorías de evidencia histórica y bioarqueológica para aclarar las relaciones existentes entre alimentación, colonización, identidades sociales y normas de la vida religiosa durante los periodos colonial y republicano en Bogotá, Colombia. Analizamos restos óseos de la iglesia jesuita de San Ignacio, un destacado monumento del centro histórico de Bogotá que ha sido usado como espacio funerario desde mediados del siglo XVII. A través de un enfoque multidisciplinario que tiene en cuenta variables como el estatus social y la pertenencia a una orden religiosa particular, mostramos cómo la colonización de cuerpos y mentes transformó la forma en que ciertos habitantes de la Santafé colonial utilizaron los alimentos como expresiones de identidad social. Por ejemplo, los sacerdotes jesuitas inhumados en San Ignacio parecen haber incluido cantidades importantes de carne en sus dietas, lo cual contradice las nociones de piedad y los votos de pobreza característicos de su congregación. De manera similar, en épocas coloniales, ciertos alimentos de origen vegetal se distribuyeron de forma distinta entre los diferentes segmentos de la población local, lo que sugiere que sus dietas estuvieron atravesadas por elecciones deliberadas en torno a la inclusión de plantas endógenas o exógenas. A principios del período republicano (siglo XIX), observamos una diferencia en las opciones alimentarias preferidas entre las élites locales, junto con la adopción de nuevas prácticas de higiene oral, que reflejan en ellas una encarnación
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Osteological and mortuary data are used to explore how sex, age, life history, and social prestige, as bioarchaeologically visible axes of gender identity, informed mortuary treatment at Turkey Creek Pueblo, Arizona (n=323), the earliest aggregated pueblo in the Point of Pines area of the Mogollon region (AD 1225–1286). The mortuary program at Turkey Creek Pueblo is suggestive of a homogenous community where burial treatment is not strictly conditional on the osteological sex of the individual, but is informed by age and life history, social roles, and social prestige. Through comparative analyses and ethnohistoric sources, we show that differences in mortuary arrangements in both typical and atypical burials at Turkey Creek Pueblo are reflective of social and ideological factors beyond age and osteological sex that are specific to the individual and their complex social positions within the community. This research illustrates how gender roles in the past were complex and not rigidly defined by sex, and these findings clarify how social power/prestige were not expressly divided along binary sex dimensions. At Turkey Creek, osteological sex is not the most significant axis of identity structuring social difference.
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Melanie J. Miller, Siân E. Halcrow, Bowen Yang, Yu Dong, Kate Pechenkina, Wenquan Fan
Food is a biological imperative as well as a core material that humans use in socializing ourselves, and the things we choose to consume are infused with cultural meanings. Children, especially very young children, have little agency in subsistence decisions, and therefore the foods that caretakers feed to children may hold profound information about cultural value systems and reveal social processes and idealized identities. Here we focus on relationships between food, sex, and gender in early life by studying the childhood diets of 57 Eastern Zhou period individuals from the Central Plains region of China (771–221 BCE). Using stable isotope analysis of incremental dentin samples, we create detailed dietary histories of childhood years. From very early in life, the average δ15N value for boys is notably higher than the average for girls, indicating slightly more protein consumption for most males, and this continues across childhood. Foods such as meat and millet were highly valued in ancient China and, whether intentional or not, become associated with aspects of sex and gender through preferential feeding to male children. These isotopic data reveal a key aspect of the socializing processes of children across generational interactions with caretakers, with food communicating information about social worth and gender, which becomes embodied in the developing child.
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Emily B.P. Milton, Jordi A. Rivera Prince, Melina Seabrook
Isotopic methods have provided breakthrough insights into bioarchaeological identity studies, yet merit more critical theoretical perspectives. Inspired by and in conversation with intersectional feminist, Indigenous, and environmental literatures, we interrogate with and for whom such research is conducted. Potential inequities in bioarchaeological research using isotopes include the extractive and specialized nature of isotopic methods. Additionally, in the context of identity studies, Western notions of the individual may separate humans from nature, creating an artificial division between people and place. We propose isotopic baselines may create amore engaged practice by considering living human dynamics and place. Looking toward a more inclusive and equitable future for bioarchaeological and isotopic research, we propose ways to reduce power imbalances created by isotopic research. Ultimately, we suggest the collection and interpretation of environmental baseline data provide an opportunity to reconcile and expand conceptualizations of identity beyond the West.
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Darcie Badon, Molly K. Zuckerman, Anna J. Osterholtz
Health-related caretaking was provided to individuals institutionalized in the Mississippi State Asylum (MSA), Jackson, MS (AD 1855–1935). However, because of limited associated documentary evidence on caretaking in the MSA and a general dearth of academic knowledge about caretaking in asylums in the Southern United States, information on caretaking and its efficacy in the MSA is limited. Accordingly, we apply a modified Bioarchaeology of Care (BoC) approach and associated web-based Index of Care to a single deceased individual from the MSA, referred to here as their burial designation—Burial 1—integrated with available documentary information, to generate direct insights into caretaking in the MSA. Burial 1’s skeleton exhibits recidivistic cranial trauma (i.e., cranial depression fractures) and substantial entheseal changes in the upper extremities. This trauma, paired with subsequent traumatic brain injury, suggests that Burial 1 may have experienced physical impairment and disability. Further, the disability Burial 1 experienced likely increased their risk of being institutionalized and created complications for them in the MSA. However, the lack of identifying information for individuals buried at the MSA complicates interpretations of the caretaking they may have received, both before and after institutionalization, as well as the efficaciousness of the caretaking and insights from the caretaking into patient and staff communities in the MSA and Burial 1’s social identity and agency. Despite this, findings affirm that future research applying the modified BoC approach could generate otherwise inscrutable information about the lived experiences of institutionalized patients with impairments and disability within historic institutions of care.
在密西西比州杰克逊的密西西比州立收容所(MSA)(公元1855-1935年)，向收容的个人提供与健康有关的照顾。但是，由于有关在MSA照料的相关文件证据有限，而且普遍缺乏关于美国南部收容所照料的学术知识，因此关于MSA照料及其效力的资料有限。因此，我们采用一种改良的护理生物考古学(BoC)方法和相关的基于网络的护理指数(Index of Care)，对MSA的一位死者进行了研究，这里将其称为埋葬名称-埋葬1号，并结合现有的文献信息，以直接了解MSA的护理情况。埋葬1的骨骼表现为累进性颅脑外伤(即颅脑凹陷性骨折)和上肢实质性的骨骺改变。这一创伤，加上随后的创伤性脑损伤，表明埋葬1号可能经历了身体损伤和残疾。此外，1所经历的残疾埋葬可能会增加他们被机构化的风险，并为他们在MSA中造成并发症。然而，由于缺乏被埋葬在MSA的个体的识别信息，使得对他们在制度化之前和之后可能得到的照顾的解释、照顾的有效性以及对MSA患者和工作人员社区的照顾和埋葬1的社会身份和代理的见解变得复杂。尽管如此，研究结果证实，应用改进的BoC方法的未来研究可以产生关于历史护理机构中有损伤和残疾的住院患者的生活经历的其他不可思议的信息。
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Sara L. Juengst, Richard Lunniss, Y. Zindy Cruz, Emilie M. Cobb, Abigail Bythell
Bioarchaeologists have increasingly investigated social identities of past peoples, engaging with theory from a variety of sources, including Indigenous perspectives. In this article, we discuss and compare successive Very Early Guangala (100 BCE–CE 1) and succeeding Early Guangala (CE 1–300) phase burials located near the north perimeter of Salango, a shoreline site and ritual sanctuary serving multiple communities of the central coast of Ecuador. Very Early Guangala burials in low mounds included many infants, accompanied by stone figurines and marine shells, who demonstrated skeletal lesions of pronounced and chronic stress. Early Guangala burials were located in the same area but without funerary architecture. These later burials were predominantly adult at the time of death, endowed with a different set of goods, and displayed distinct frequencies of pathological conditions (possibly related to demographic differences). Isotopic evidence of diet and migration show that throughout both periods, connection to the ocean through foodways was common, despite the possibility of some individuals migrating to or from the area. Drawing on theory about relational identities and community, we interpret these paleopathological, mortuary, and isotopic trends to demonstrate that in particular contexts, humans and objects were seen as interchangeable and that a lifelong connection to the ocean was at the core of community at Salango.
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Adolescence is marked by a wide range of biological, social, and neurological changes. Adolescents are stereotypically viewed as reckless, impulsive, and troubled, but research across the social and biomedical sciences is demonstrating that this is a narrow view of a dynamic period of life. Now, research is showing that adolescents are frequently responsible for the creation and transmission of new ideas and practices and for the creation of new social bonds, which can contribute to personal and community growth. In short, adolescents are key to the development and success of a community. The bioarchaeological study of adolescence not only speaks to the experiences of adolescents but also captures the life of a community, especially as this period encapsulates early life experiences and lays the foundations for later adult health outcomes. Consequently, the study of adolescence in past populations provides deep-time insights into adolescence as a uniquely human experience. This special issue of Bioarchaeology International focuses on newly developing work within the bioarchaeological study of adolescence, demonstrating how researchers can use bioculturally informed research to advance our understanding of adolescence in the past. In doing so, we demonstrate where the study of adolescence has come from, where it is presently situated, and where we may take it moving forward, as the study of adolescence not only emerges but also flourishes.
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