Kinship and mobility in 11th-century A.D. Gammertingen, Germany: an interdisciplinary approach

Grumbkow, Philipp von; Frommer, Sören; Kootker, L.M.; Davies, Gareth R.; Mazanec, Janine; Hummel, Susanne

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2013.05.001

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“…Their study emphasizes that careful selection of the bioavailable samples is of key importance to enable a reliable and accurate determination of local 87 Sr/ 86 Sr ratios. Socio-economic differences within ancient (Medieval) populations, for instance, might have led to a diverse origin of the food resources between the wealthy and the poor; the former might have had access to more exotic food resources, resulting in the consumption food with different isotopic ratios (Grumbkow et al, 2013. See also Price et al (2006) for an example of a different archaeological time period).…”

Section: Building Sr Isotope Reference Datasetsmentioning

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“…The presence of the dentine could possibly influence the 87 Sr/ 86 Sr ratio of the enamel, altering the signal more towards diagenetic ("local" and/or modern) values. To limit effects of diagenetic alteration, dentine was physically removed from the incisors as much as possible and samples were leached with 0.1 N acidic acid to remove any labile Sr on/in the dentine and enamel (see Grumbkow et al, 2013). All samples were transferred to the US Federal standard Class 100 clean laboratory facility at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam for Sr purification.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Strontium isoscapes in The Netherlands. Spatial variations in 87Sr/86Sr as a proxy for palaeomobility

Kootker

Lanen

Kars

et al. 2016

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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Section: Building Sr Isotope Reference Datasetsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Strontium isoscapes in The Netherlands. Spatial variations in 87Sr/86Sr as a proxy for palaeomobility

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Kars

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“…PCR conditions, primer sequences and other analytic details are described elsewhere [80, 84]. We determined the minimal Y-chromosomal haplotype for the male individual B3 employing a multiplex PCR amplifying eight Y-chromosomal STRs (DYS 392, DYS 391, DYS 19, DYS 389I, DYS 390, DYS 389II, DYS 393, DYS 385) [85]. The STR allele results were then compared to the YHRD database (YHRD.org; release 54) to determine the geographic ancestry of the haplotype [86].…”

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"The dead shall be raised": Multidisciplinary analysis of human skeletons reveals complexity in 19th century immigrant socioeconomic history and identity in New Haven, Connecticut

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In July 2011, renovations to Yale-New Haven Hospital inadvertently exposed the cemetery of Christ Church, New Haven, Connecticut’s first Catholic cemetery. While this cemetery was active between 1833 and 1851, both the church and its cemetery disappeared from public records, making the discovery serendipitous. Four relatively well-preserved adult skeletons were recovered with few artifacts. All four individuals show indicators of manual labor, health and disease stressors, and dental health issues. Two show indicators of trauma, with the possibility of judicial hanging in one individual. Musculoskeletal markings are consistent with physical stress, and two individuals have arthritic indicators of repetitive movement/specialized activities. Radiographic analyses show osteopenia, healed trauma, and other pathologies in several individuals. Dental calculus analysis did not identify any tuberculosis indicators, despite osteological markers. Isotopic analyses of teeth indicate that all four were likely recent immigrants to the Northeastern United States. Nuclear and mitochondrial DNA were recovered from three individuals, and these analyses identified ancestry, hair/eye color, and relatedness. Genetic and isotopic results upended our initial ancestry assessment based on burial context alone. These individuals provide biocultural evidence of New Haven’s Industrial Revolution and the plasticity of ethnic and religious identity in the immigrant experience. Their recovery and the multifaceted analyses described here illuminate a previously undescribed part of the city’s rich history. The collective expertise of biological, geochemical, archaeological, and historical researchers interprets socioeconomic and cultural identity better than any one could alone. Our combined efforts changed our initial assumptions of a poor urban Catholic cemetery’s membership, and provide a template for future discoveries and analyses.

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“…Criteria for positively identifying probable nuclear families vary widely between studies; the most effective efforts establish (and sometimes meet) rigorous criteria that yield more nuanced interpretations of social aspects of family organization in the past (e.g., Bentley 2013; Grumbkow et al 2013;Mata-Míguez et al 2014;Meyer et al 2012;Simón et al 2011). Initial excitement about the potential of ancient DNA (aDNA) to directly test hypotheses regarding systems of inheritance, postmarital residence patterns, and kinship systems (Kaestle and Horsburgh 2002;Shinoda and Kanai 1999;Stoneking 1995;Usher et al 2003;Williams et al 2002) have been tempered in recent years.…”

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Bioarchaeology and Kinship: Integrating Theory, Social Relatedness, and Biology in Ancient Family Research

Johnson

Paul

2015

J Archaeol Res

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Theoretical developments in sociocultural anthropology have transformed the study of kinship. Here, we review these theoretical developments, consider their influence on bioarchaeological kinship research, and propose an alternative framework for studying relatedness in antiquity. We find that broader, more flexible conceptions of relatedness have grown increasingly prevalent in 21st-century bioarchaeology, but kinship research largely continues to emphasize methodological improvement and identification of biological kin in archaeological contexts. By approaching kinship as a multiscalar dimension of social identity, bioarchaeologists can leverage complex conceptions of relatedness with diverse types of data to gain nuanced perspectives on family-based social organization in the past.

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Kinship and mobility in 11th-century A.D. Gammertingen, Germany: an interdisciplinary approach

Cited by 7 publications

References 49 publications

Strontium isoscapes in The Netherlands. Spatial variations in 87Sr/86Sr as a proxy for palaeomobility

Strontium isoscapes in The Netherlands. Spatial variations in 87Sr/86Sr as a proxy for palaeomobility

"The dead shall be raised": Multidisciplinary analysis of human skeletons reveals complexity in 19th century immigrant socioeconomic history and identity in New Haven, Connecticut

Bioarchaeology and Kinship: Integrating Theory, Social Relatedness, and Biology in Ancient Family Research

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