East of Rome: Exploring potential impacts of Roman imperialism on Northeastern Mediterranean populations through a bioarchaeological perspective

Marklein, Kathryn E.

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102590

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“…Moreover, many dental calculus researchers do not record oral pathologies, the number of teeth with dental calculus present, or conduct tooth inventories. Although this information pertaining to dental calculus may not be critical for the questions of the current project, other researchers are interested in such data because dental calculus can be a health indicator (Lieverse, 1999; Marklein, 2020; Ortner, 2003; Ortner & Putschar, 1985; Yaussy & DeWitte, 2019). Failing to record this sort of information during the time of sampling could not only hinder future dental calculus research but also affect the accuracy and reproducibility of investigations conducted by paleoepidemiologists and other researchers.…”

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Ancient human dental calculus metadata collection and sampling strategies: Recommendations for best practices

Gancz,

Wright,

Weyrich

2023

American Journal of Biological Anthropology

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ObjectivesAncient human dental calculus is a unique, nonrenewable biological resource encapsulating key information about the diets, lifestyles, and health conditions of past individuals and populations. With compounding calls its destructive analysis, it is imperative to refine the ways in which the scientific community documents, samples, and analyzes dental calculus so as to maximize its utility to the public and scientific community.Materials and MethodsOur research team conducted an IRB‐approved survey of dental calculus researchers with diverse academic backgrounds, research foci, and analytical specializations.ResultsThis survey reveals variation in how metadata is collected and utilized across different subdisciplines and highlights how these differences have profound implications for dental calculus research. Moreover, the survey suggests the need for more communication between those who excavate, curate, and analyze biomolecular data from dental calculus.DiscussionChallenges in cross‐disciplinary communication limit researchers' ability to effectively utilize samples in rigorous and reproducible ways. Specifically, the lack of standardized skeletal and dental metadata recording and contamination avoidance procedures hinder downstream anthropological applications, as well as the pursuit of broader paleodemographic and paleoepidemiological inquiries that rely on more complete information about the individuals sampled. To provide a path forward toward more ethical and standardized dental calculus sampling and documentation approaches, we review the current methods by which skeletal and dental metadata are recorded. We also describe trends in sampling and contamination‐control approaches. Finally, we use that information to suggest new guidelines for ancient dental calculus documentation and sampling strategies that will improve research practices in the future.

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Ancient human dental calculus metadata collection and sampling strategies: Recommendations for best practices

Gancz,

Wright,

Weyrich

2023

American Journal of Biological Anthropology

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“…For example, Williams and Murphy found that quality of life, assessed via nonspecific stress indicators, and diet at the cemetery of Puruchuco-Huaquerones (central coast, Peru) did not change with Inka annexation (Williams & Murphy, 2013, see also : Becker & Goldstein, 2018). Marklein reports no significant differences in stress markers between senatorial and imperial sites in peripheral Rome (Marklein, 2020). These bioarchaeological studies illustrate how the impact of colonial strategy can vary dramatically and, importantly, how it can be skeletally embodied (Tung, 2012).…”

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The embodiment of colonial strategy: Osteoarthritis in ancient Nubia

Schrader

2022

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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Toward a bioarchaeology of urbanization: Demography, health, and behavior in cities in the past

Betsinger

DeWitte

2021

American J Phys Anthropol

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Urbanization is one of the most important settlement shifts in human history and has been the focus of research within bioarchaeology for decades. However, there have been limited attempts to synthesize the results of these studies in order to gain a broader perspective on whether or how urbanization affects the biology, demography, and behavior of humans, and how these potential effects are embodied in the human skeleton. This paper outlines how bioarchaeology is well-suited to examine urbanization in the past, and we provide an overview and examples of three main ways in which urbanization is studied in bioarchaeological research: comparison of (often contemporaneous) urban and rural sites, synchronic studies of the variation that exists within and between urban sites, and investigations of changes that occur within urban sites over time. Studies of urbanization, both within bioarchaeology and in other fields of study, face a number of limitations, including a lack of a consensus regarding what urban and urbanization mean, the assumed dichotomous nature of urban versus rural settlements, the supposition that urbanization is universally bad for people, and the assumption (at least in practice) of homogeneity within urban and rural populations. Bioarchaeologists can address these limitations by utilizing a wide array of data and methods, and the studies described here collectively demonstrate the complex, nuanced, and highly variable effects of urbanization.

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East of Rome: Exploring potential impacts of Roman imperialism on Northeastern Mediterranean populations through a bioarchaeological perspective

Cited by 3 publications

References 55 publications

Ancient human dental calculus metadata collection and sampling strategies: Recommendations for best practices

Ancient human dental calculus metadata collection and sampling strategies: Recommendations for best practices

The embodiment of colonial strategy: Osteoarthritis in ancient Nubia

Toward a bioarchaeology of urbanization: Demography, health, and behavior in cities in the past

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