Biological Anthropology in the Indo-Pacific Region: New Approaches to Age-Old Questions

Clark, Angela L.; King, Charlotte L.; Buckley, Hallie R.; Collins, Catherine; Dhavale, Neha; Elliott, Gail E.; Gosling, Anna L.; Halcrow, Siân E.; Ivory, Bradley; Matisoo‐Smith, Elizabeth; McDonald, Stella K.; Stantis, Chris; Tromp, Monica; Ward, Stacey; West, Katrina

doi:10.7152/jipa.v41i0.15021

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“…However, there has been the extensive bioarchaeological study of the few sites with intact burials, particularly over the past 15 years. Research questions have explicitly included human colonization and adaptation, many focusing on Lapita population movement (Buckley et al, 2010; Clark et al, 2017; Kinaston et al, 2013; Walter et al, 2017). Recent aDNA studies, including genomic research, are expanding knowledge of the complexities of migration into the Pacific including the early settlement by Lapita people as well as the settlement of distant islands, including Aotearoa New Zealand (Knapp et al, 2012; Lipson et al, 2018; Skoglund et al, 2016).…”

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Twenty‐first century bioarchaeology: Taking stock and moving forward

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Baker

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American Journal of Biological Anthropology

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This article presents outcomes from a Workshop entitled “Bioarchaeology: Taking Stock and Moving Forward,” which was held at Arizona State University (ASU) on March 6–8, 2020. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the School of Human Evolution and Social Change (ASU), and the Center for Bioarchaeological Research (CBR, ASU), the Workshop's overall goal was to explore reasons why research proposals submitted by bioarchaeologists, both graduate students and established scholars, fared disproportionately poorly within recent NSF Anthropology Program competitions and to offer advice for increasing success. Therefore, this Workshop comprised 43 international scholars and four advanced graduate students with a history of successful grant acquisition, primarily from the United States. Ultimately, we focused on two related aims: (1) best practices for improving research designs and training and (2) evaluating topics of contemporary significance that reverberate through history and beyond as promising trajectories for bioarchaeological research. Among the former were contextual grounding, research question/hypothesis generation, statistical procedures appropriate for small samples and mixed qualitative/quantitative data, the salience of Bayesian methods, and training program content. Topical foci included ethics, social inequality, identity (including intersectionality), climate change, migration, violence, epidemic disease, adaptability/plasticity, the osteological paradox, and the developmental origins of health and disease. Given the profound changes required globally to address decolonization in the 21st century, this concern also entered many formal and informal discussions.

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Section: Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Twenty‐first century bioarchaeology: Taking stock and moving forward

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DeWitte

Baker

et al. 2022

American Journal of Biological Anthropology

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“…Tooth modification, in the form of incising and filing, has also been observed in late prehistoric and historic populations from the Marianas Islands in Micronesia (reviewed in Ikehara-Quebral and Douglas 1997). However, it is difficult to assess if the lack of tooth ablation in Lapita and post-Lapita associated individuals is actually a result of a lack of well-preserved and well-researched skeletal assemblages fiom this period (for a review see Clark et al 2017;Kinaston and Buckley 2013;Pietrusewsky 2005). lnterestingly, the only ethrographic accounts of ritual tooth ablation in the Western Pacific document the practice in a number of communities in northern and north-central Vanuatu well into twentieth century (Deacon 1934;Fox 1979;Layard 1942;Muller and Guiart 1972;Speiser [1923Speiser [ ] 1990.…”

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“…We aim to use direct analyses of human remains, specifically the occurence of tooth ablation in four skeletal assemblages from eastern Indonesia (Pain Haka, Melolo, Lewoleba, and Liang Bua) and one from Vanuatu (Uripiv) that date to the Neolithic period (-3500-2000BP) (Figure 1), to assess how cultural, behavioral, and social systems shaped biological responses to the enyironment (Clark et al 2017;Larsen 2015; Schell 1997). We argue that tooth ablation was an important component of the Neolithic cultural package associated with the migmtion of Austronesian peoples throughout some regions of Southeast Asia, which may have been carried ilto the Paciffc during the early hurtan settlement of Remote Oceania ca.…”

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Ritual tooth ablation and the Austronesian expansion: Evidence from eastern Indonesia and the Pacific Islands

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Koesbardiati

Suriyanto

et al. 2020

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

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The Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology (JICA) is aimed at archaeologists and other scientists with interests in the archaeology and historical ecology of islands and other coastal settings. This bi-annual journal publishes original research papers, major review articles, short notes, occasional book reviews, and forums of significance to a broad international audience. We encourage submissions on a variety of innovative and interdisciplinary topics, including broad syntheses of particular islands or coastal regions around the world, major methodological and theoretical advances in the study of island and coastal societies, and the historical ecology and human impacts of island and coastal ecosystems around the world. JICA provides an international forum for scholars from a variety of disciplines who share a common interest in studying islands, archipelagoes, and coastal regions. It is the goal of the journal to publish high quality, peer-reviewed research papers that contribute to a better understanding of the role islands and coastal regions played in the development of human societies over space and time.

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“…This includes the earliest and more recent craniometric studies by physical anthropologists and bioarcheologists to resolve questions about population affinities and the peopling of the Pacific (Howells, 1970; Pietrusewsky, 2005). More recent and still ongoing work by biological anthropologists, population geneticists, and ecologically oriented archaeologists provides increasingly more reliable and accurate time depth, settlement histories, and reconstructed subsistence and demographic scenarios on which evolutionary scenarios can be based (Friedlander et al, 2008; Kirch, 2017; Clark et al, 2017). The path-breaking and extensive population health research by Ian Prior and Paul Zimmet across the Pacific, starting in the 1960s, focused on biological and health responses, especially what we now call cardiometabolic non-communicable diseases, to the rapid changes in the nutritional environment stemming from economic modernisation and migration (e.g.…”

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