Browsing Anthropology by Author "Perry, Megan A"
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A Paleodemographic Study of Mortality in 1st century BC/AD Petra, Jordan
Propst, Akacia (East Carolina University, 2017-07-19)The 1st century BC to 1st century AD population of Petra appears to have rarely suffered from infectious diseases based on the low frequency of pathological bone lesions in skeletons recovered from tombs on the site's North ... -
As The Sun Sets, We Remain: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of the Gause Cemetery at Seaside
Quintana, Jorge R (East Carolina University, 2019-07-02)In 2014, USA Today reported that the search for family roots was the second most popular hobby in the U.S.. The concomitant recognition by the general public of the forensic and bioarchaeological value of human skeletal ... -
Bioarchaeological Analysis of a Historic North Carolina Family Cemetery
Long, Madison (East Carolina University, 2019-07-02)The Gause Cemetery at Seaside, located in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, purportedly contains members of a wealthy and influential planter family, the Gause's, who died during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 2017, ... -
Comparing Methodologies for Documenting Commingled and Fragmentary Human Remains
Sussman, Emily (East Carolina University, 2017-07-28)Commingled and fragmentary human remains are a common occurrence in archaeological and forensic contexts, but only a few methods have been developed to record these complex assemblages. Conventional inventory methods, such ... -
Entheseal Changes as a Reflection of Activity Patterns at 1st Century BC/AD Petra, Jordan
Wagner, Tara (East Carolina University, 2018-07-24)Over the past thirty years, biological anthropologists have attempted to reconstruct human behavioral patterns by analyzing entheseal attachments, the areas where tendons and ligaments attach to the bone. Many researchers ... -
Exploring Social Inequality at Petra through Dental Pathology
Lieurance, Alysha (East Carolina University, 2018-07-24)Dental pathologies such as linear enamel hypoplasias (LEHs), periapical lesions (abscesses), dental calculus and caries, and antemortem tooth loss (AMTL) can indicate physiological stress during childhood development as ... -
Metabolic Disease in Subadult Skeletal Remains from Late Ottoman-Era Tell Hisban, Jordan
Edwards, Emily Arlene (East Carolina University, 2019-07-25)The site of Tell Hisban in Jordan was seasonally occupied by nomadic agropastoral tribes for over a thousand years. In the latter half of the 1800s, the Ottoman Empire instituted the Tanzimat, a series of reforms intended ... -
A STUDY OF DECOMPOSITION RATES IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
Leone, Lisa (2006-07)Estimating the time since death (or postmortem interval) via postmortem changes is crucial in forensic cases involving decomposed human corpses. Several factors can influence the rate of decomposition, such as ambient ... -
USING DENTAL METRIC ANALYSIS TO UNDERSTAND PREHISTORIC POPULATION VARIABILITY ON THE NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL PLAIN
Weidner, Kara D (East Carolina University, 2018-05-18)Biodistance studies can quantify intra- and inter- population relatedness through non-metric and metric skeletal variables. In this study, dental metric traits of two linguistically distinct Late Woodland (AD 800-1650) ...