Books by Christopher Stojanowski
Papers by Christopher Stojanowski
Journal of Archaeological Research, 2015
ABSTRACT More than 20 years ago, Wood et al. (Curr Anthropol 33:343–370, 1992) published ‘‘The Os... more ABSTRACT More than 20 years ago, Wood et al. (Curr Anthropol 33:343–370, 1992) published ‘‘The Osteological Paradox: Problems of Inferring Prehistoric Health from Skeletal Samples,’’ in which they challenged bioarchaeologists to consider the effects of heterogeneous frailty and selective mortality on health inferences in past populations. Here, we review the paper’s impact on bioarchaeology and paleopathology, focusing on recent advancements in studies of ancient health. We find the paper is often cited but infrequently engaged in a meaningful way. Despite an initial decade of limited progress, numerous researchers are now addressing components of the Paradox in more informed ways. We identify four areas of fruitful research: (1) intrasite, contextual perspectives, (2) subadults, (3) associating stress markers with demographic phenomena, and (4) skeletal lesion-formation processes. Although often seen as a problematic assumption, understanding the sources of heterogeneous frailty within human populations is a worthy research question in and of itself, and one that clearly links past and present health research within a global framework.
This document provides a technical overview of the scientific importance of human skeletal remain... more This document provides a technical overview of the scientific importance of human skeletal remains from the Buckeye Knoll Site (41VT98), Victoria, Texas. The materials were recovered by Coastal Environments, Inc. under contract to the Corps of Engineers as part of Section 106 archaeological investigations undertaken in conjunction with improvements to the Channel to Victoria. A brief overview of the importance
PloS one, 2015
Contemporary human populations conform to ecogeographic predictions that animals will become more... more Contemporary human populations conform to ecogeographic predictions that animals will become more compact in cooler climates and less compact in warmer ones. However, it remains unclear to what extent this pattern reflects plastic responses to current environments or genetic differences among populations. Analyzing anthropometric surveys of 232,684 children and adults from across 80 ethnolinguistic groups in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Americas, we confirm that body surface-to-volume correlates with contemporary temperature at magnitudes found in more latitudinally diverse samples (Adj. R2 = 0.14-0.28). However, far more variation in body surface-to-volume is attributable to genetic population structure (Adj. R2 = 0.50-0.74). Moreover, genetic population structure accounts for nearly all of the observed relationship between contemporary temperature and body surface-to-volume among children and adults. Indeed, after controlling for population structure, contemporary temperature ...
Genetics, Evolution, Variation, 2013
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Books by Christopher Stojanowski
Papers by Christopher Stojanowski