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Standards for Data Collection from Human Skeletal Remains
- J. Buikstra, D. Ubelaker
- Geography, History
- 1994
Course Description and Goals: In this hands-on laboratory course, we will take an in-depth study of the human skeleton as a dynamic, living system. We will examine each bone, with a review of normal… Expand
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Complete Mitochondrial Genomes of Ancient Canids Suggest a European Origin of Domestic Dogs
- O. Thalmann, B. Shapiro, +28 authors R. Wayne
- Biology, Medicine
- Science
- 15 November 2013
Dog Domestication The precise details of the domestication and origins of domestic dogs are unclear. Thalmann et al. (p. 871; see the cover) analyzed complete mitochondrial genomes from present-day… Expand
Pre-Columbian mycobacterial genomes reveal seals as a source of New World human tuberculosis
- Kirsten I. Bos, Kelly M Harkins, +25 authors J. Krause
- Biology, Medicine
- Nature
- 23 October 2014
Modern strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the Americas are closely related to those from Europe, supporting the assumption that human tuberculosis was introduced post-contact. This notion,… Expand
The Bioarchaeology of Tuberculosis: A Global View on a Reemerging Disease
- C. Roberts, J. Buikstra
- Geography, Medicine
- 2003
A study of tuberculosis, a persistent and important infectious disease, covering its aetiology, epidemiology, and pathogenesis. It reveals that tuberculosis has repeatedly increased over time as… Expand
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Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA in a pre-Columbian Peruvian mummy.
- W. Salo, A. Aufderheide, J. Buikstra, T. A. Holcomb
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 15 March 1994
The existence of tuberculosis in the pre-Columbian Americas is controversial because the morphology of the lesion is not specific, the organism is culturally nonviable in ancient tissues, and… Expand
A 9,000-year record of Chagas' disease
- A. Aufderheide, W. Salo, +8 authors M. Allison
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 6 February 2004
Tissue specimens from 283 principally spontaneously (naturally) desiccated human mummies from coastal and low valley sites in northern Chile and southern Peru were tested with a DNA probe directed at… Expand
Status and gender differences in diet at Mound 72, Cahokia, revealed by isotopic analysis of bone
- S. Ambrose, J. Buikstra, H. W. Krueger
- Biology
- 1 September 2003
Abstract Cahokia Mound 72 contains 272 human burials dating to the Lohmann and early Stirling phases (ca. 1050–1150 AD) of the Mississippian period. Substantial status- and gender-related differences… Expand
Kings and commoners at Copan: Isotopic evidence for origins and movement in the Classic Maya period
- T. Price, J. Burton, +4 authors K. A. Miller
- Geography
- 1 March 2010
Abstract Eight human interments were excavated in the 1990s beneath the Acropolis at the Classic Maya site of Copan in Honduras, which was the capital of a Maya kingdom from ca. AD 400 to 800. These… Expand
The Use of Strontium Isotope Analysis to Investigate Tiwanaku Migration and Mortuary Ritual in Bolivia and Peru
- K. Knudson, T. Price, J. Buikstra, D. Blom
- Geography
- 1 February 2004
Strontium isotope analysis is applied in South America for the first time in order to investigate residential mobility and mortuary ritual from ad 500 to 1000. While Tiwanaku-style artefacts are… Expand
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