This dissertation evaluates how unequal power structures generate a form of structural violence that becomes embodied by people who live within them, and explores how historical narratives of the colonial experience have obfuscated the realities of the Indigenous experience of c…
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In this dissertation I explore the physical manifestations of inequality and marginalization embodied on human skeletal and dental tissues. The concepts of structural violence and necroviolence guide this work. Through those lenses, I explore both the lived experiences of povert…
The analysis of human remains from the Bronze Age on Cyprus offers insights into underlying issues of social change and identity formation. Data collected from human remains from six sites throughout the southern half of Cyprus dating to the PreBA through the ProBA (2400--1100 B…
Tell Abraq is a Bronze Age archaeological site located in the modern day United Arab Emirates and was occupied from the 3rd millennium BC to the 1st century AD. The coastal location provided access to both marine and agricultural resources as well as trade routes and foreign exc…
The study of prehistoric warfare in the ancient Near East is often evoked in Near Eastern scholarship, but remains understudied in a comprehensive or objective manner. This dissertation delves into the quantification and interpretation of the evidence of warfare and interpersona…
By employing a bioarchaeological perspective, this dissertation addresses how quotidian acts are altered during and as a consequence of sociopolitical change. Specifically, variation in day-to-day activities associated with the transition from the New Kingdom to the Napatan Peri…
Ancient Nubia, located in Sudan from the First to Sixth Cataracts of the Nile River, was at the heart of contact between indigenous African societies and the Egyptian Empire (Edwards 2007). This dissertation focuses on a small farming community on the fringes of the medieval Nub…
This thesis presents an expanded bioarchaeological perspective to quantitative analyses of dental caries in the remains of 1842 ancient Egyptians and Nubians. The skeletal samples came from 17 Egyptian and 15 Nubian cemeteries, are represented by both sexes, and spanned a period…
This thesis explores identity in early mediaeval Scotland (ca 800-1300AD) using biological and burial deposition data. During this period Scotland was developing as a unified kingdom. The Norse, Scots, and Anglo-Saxons battled for political power. The Saxon and Irish Churches we…
The skeletal material for this study (N=490) is derived from the Upper Egyptian Predynastic cemetery HK43 at Hierakonpolis dating to Naqada IIA-C, approximately c.3800-3500 BCE. This dissertation explores four major issues: the decline of human health that accompanied a shift fr…
Human stature is simply defined as the height of a human body in an upright position. The ultimate stature can be obtained from the total addition of vertical length of several bones from the skeleton. Some of these bones are long bones, like femur and tibia; most of the bones t…
Renewed excavations in 2003–2004 at Alalakh (Tell Atchana), a regional capital of ancient Syria during the Middle and Late Bronze Age (ca. 2000–1200 BCE), exposed the burials of at least 58 people. Along with published and unpublished data from burials excavated at Alalakh by Si…
This study investigates infancy and childhood at Kellis 2, a Roman period cemetery (ca. A.D. 50-450), Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt, using a bioarchaeological approach emphasizing the integration and interpretation of data from textual, archaeological, environmental, and biological sourc…
This dissertation examines the largest human skeletal sample recovered from the eastern end of the Fertile Crescent, the central Zagros Mountains, that dates to early in the subsistence transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture. This monumental change in modern human …
What is now known as Amarna, Egypt there once stood a grand city. Hastily built and quickly abandoned, this once capital city of Egypt was the brainchild of the Pharaoh Akhenaten. In 2002 the final resting place of the inhabitants who populated this ancient city were discovered.…
The New Kingdom individuals excavated from the site of Akhetaten, modern day Tell el-Amarna in Middle Egypt, exhibit traumatic injuries relating to construction of the new city. This site is important for Egyptological and bioarchaeological interpretations because the city was o…
This research investigates the lives and deaths of subadults in a medieval Nubian context. Using a sample from two medieval Christian cemeteries on the island of Mis, the mortuary treatment and skeletal health of subadults were analyzed to manifest age-related cultural practices…
This dissertation examines the population structure of the el-Hesa skeletal collection, recovered from a First Cataract island in the Nile River in modern day Egypt. The collection dates to the Egyptian late Roman to early Christian periods (AD 395-640). The primary goal of this…
Bronze Age sites on the Arabian Peninsula are relatively rare. The undisturbed nature of Tell Abraq, located in the United Arab Emirates, is significant since it represents one of the longest known occupied settlement sites dating from the 3rd millennium BC to the 1st century AD…