Integrating Identities: An Innovative Bioarchaeological and Biogeochemical Approach to Analyzing the Multiplicity of Identities in the Mortuary Record

Multi-isotopic and morphometric evidence for the migration of farmers leading up to the Inka conquest of the southern Andes

“…S2). The 27 values from the first group ( 87 Sr/ 86 Sr range = 0.7087-0.7096) fully coincide with the local baseline. While the geographical analysis also indicates the Pacific coast as a possible area of residence, the paleodietary results-presented below-show a null marine dietary input, therefore allowing to reject this alternative 21 .…”

“…We present 87 Sr/ 86 Sr values for 38 human samples (12 teeth and 26 bones) from 30 individuals spanning the period between AD 800 and 1500, representing 15% of the human remains from these burial sites (MNI = 196) ( Table S2). The results have a bimodal distribution with two non-overlapping groups: the first one is composed of 27 samples (11 teeth and 16 bones) with a mean of 0.7090 ± 0.0003 (range 0.7083-0.7095); the second group is composed of 11 samples (one tooth and 10 bones) with a mean of 0.7073 ± 0.0001 (range 0.7072-0.7075) (Fig.…”

Cranial modification and the shapes of heads across the Andes

“…Cranial modification in Chile's Atacama Oases therefore, is not a monolithic display of "Atacameño-ness" but rather a more complex reflection of one element of identity that intersects with numerous others in the mortuary context. In my work, this ultimately lead to the presentation of a model for an integrative and contextualized view of identity in the Chilean Atacama that goes beyond solely cranial modification to consider the body and the grave in myriad ways (Torres-Rouff and Knudson, 2017).…”

The intersections of industrialization: Variation in skeletal indicators of frailty by age, sex, and socioeconomic status in 18th‐ and 19th‐century England

“…Although recent work in bioarchaeology (e.g., Gowland, Caffell, Newman, Levene, & Holst, 2018;Hughes-Morey, 2016;Ives & Humphrey, 2017;Newman & Gowland, 2016;Shields Wilford, 2018) implicitly engages with intersectional themes and explores the paleopathological evidence for social inequality, marginalization, and structural oppression, few studies specifically discuss the tenets of intersectionality theory, select analytical methods that evaluate potential interactions among identity categories, and reference the relevant literature from social science researchers, Black feminist scholars, and activists who employ intersectional approaches. The most comprehensive study to integrate bioarchaeological data with an intersectional perspective comes from Torres-Rouff and Knudson (2017), who leverage multiple lines of evidence (e.g., cranial metric and nonmetric traits, isotope analyses, mortuary context) from sites in northern Chile to examine individual-and population-level changes over time and explore how social positions are negotiated within larger structures of power and oppression. The article by Torres-Rouff and Knudson (2017) provides one example of how an intersectionality approach can be applied in bioarchaeological studies to answer larger anthropological questions.…”