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A Book Review Essay on Recent Publications Concerning Human Skeletal Trauma Analysis, Violence, and Conflict

Helms Thorson, Lindsey Jo (2020-11-05)

A New Look at an Old Collection: A Preliminary Analysis of Lithic Debitage from the Bluff Crest of Starved Rock

Geraci, Peter (2020-11-03)

A common problem in archaeology is the constant shortage of time, money, and personnel necessary to process the extraordinary amount of artifacts that accompanies the excavation of heavily occupied prehistoric sites such ...

A New Way to Research: The Benefits and Future of Indigenous Archaeologies

Pipp, Isabella (2021-11-07)

Indigenous archaeologies allow for new methodologies and theoretical approaches into archaeological studies by promoting collaborative research. This paper explores specific approaches, including member-orientated ...

A Striped Hyena Scavenging Event: Implications for Oldowan Hominin Behavior

Leslie, David E. (2020-11-05)

The spotted (Crocuta crocuta), brown (Hyaena brunnea), and striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) are well documented collectors of faunal remains. Actualistic studies of spotted and brown hyenas used as analogs for hominin behavior ...

A World Without Artists?: In Search of Medieval Welsh Stone-Carvers

Stanton, Emily R (2021-03-19)

Acute Induced Scurvy: Implications for COVID-19 and the Cytokine Storm

Belhadi, Chawki (2021-11-07)

Using an evolutionary genetic disease model, this review considers Vitamin C (VC) and its potential for treating COVID-19 (CV-19). The model’s validity rests on VC’s potent antioxidant property and the mutation sustained ...

Adult Foot and Ankle Trauma at Schroeder Mounds (11He177): A Late Woodland Period Site in Illinois

Wollen, Katherine C.; Ostendorf Smith, Maria (2020-11-05)

Foot and ankle trauma in adults may be accidental or caused by physical activities that increase the likelihood of injury. Little is known about the organization of labor or health of the presumed forager-farmers of the ...

Almost There: A Portrait of Peter Anton: Cultural reproduction, attitudes, and meaning in the category of outsider art

Fritsch, Andrea (2020-11-13)

An analysis of the debate surrounding the art exhibit Almost There: A Portrait of Peter Anton at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in 2010 reveals sets of actors with competing interests and claims on the ...

An Examination of the Intersection of Food, Eating, and Health through Food Culture and the Social and Geographic Environments

Prehn, Aurora (2020-11-05)

An Explanation for the Current Sex Distribution in the Riverside Cemetery (20ME01), a Terminal Archaic Site, and Implications for a Possible Site Reinterpretation

Herrera, Katie C. (2020-11-13)

Current research on the Riverside Cemetery (20ME01), a hypothesized Terminal Archaic site in Menominee County in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, has focused on the rise in hunter-gatherer social complexity from the Middle ...

An Overview of Variation in Archaeologically Observed Mortuary Practices: A Case Study Examining Grave Placement, Headstone Type and Epitaph Content in Two Slave Cemeteries

Spott, Elizabeth K. (2020-11-03)

Numerous explanations for archaeologically observed variation in the treatment of the dead have been posited by archaeologists, including but not limited to differentiation in rank, social organization, philosophical-religious ...