Bioarchaeology of Frontiers and Borderlands 1st Edition by Cristina I Tica, Debra L Martin ISBN 1683400844 9781683400844

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ISBN 10: 1683400844 
ISBN 13: 9781683400844
Author: Cristina I Tica, Debra L Martin

Frontiers and territorial borders are places of contested power where societies collide, interact, and interconnect. Using bioanthropological case studies from around the world, this volume explores how people in the past created, maintained, or changed their identities while living on the edge between two or more different spheres of influence.

Examining a wide range of borderland settings, essays in this volume discuss the mobility of people in Roman Egypt and investigate patterns of genetic difference in Iron Age Italy. They show how social and cultural interactions helped buffer the stressful physical environment of eleventh-century Iceland and describe bioarchaeological evidence of traumatic injuries indicating tension across regional borders in the precontact American Great Basin and Southwest. Contributors look at isotope data, skeletal stress markers, craniometric and dental metric information, mortuary arrangements, and other evidence to examine how frontier life can affect health and socioeconomic status. Illustrating the many meanings and definitions of frontiers and borderlands, they question assumptions about the relationships between people, place, and identity.

As national borders continue to ignite controversy in today’s society and politics, the research presented here is more important than ever. The long history of people who have lived in borderland areas helps us understand the challenges of adapting to these dynamic and often violent places.

A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen

Bioarchaeology of Frontiers and Borderlands 1st Table of contents:

Part I: The Complexity and Liminality of the Frontier

1. Across the River: Romanized “Barbarians” and Barbarized “Romans” on the Edge of the Empire (Third–Sixth Centuries CE)
   Cristina I. Tica

2. Funerary Practice and Local Interaction on the Imperial Frontier, First Century CE: A Case Study in the Şərur Valley, Azerbaijan
   Selin E. Nugent

3. Queering Prehistory on the Frontier: A Bioarchaeological Investigation of Gender in Mierzanowice Culture Communities of the Early Bronze Age
   Mark P. Toussaint

Part II: Movement Across Borders

4. Isotopes, Migration, and Sex: Investigating the Mobility of the Frontier Inhabitants of Roman Egypt
   Amanda T. Groff and Tosha L. Dupras

5. Temporal and Spatial Biological Kinship Variation at Campovalano and Alfedena in Iron Age Central Italy
   Evan Muzzall and Alfredo Coppa

Part III: Adaptability and Resilience on the Frontier

6. Living on the Border: Health and Identity during Egypt’s Colonization of Nubia in the New Kingdom Period
   Katie Marie Whitmore, Michele R. Buzon, and Stuart Tyson Smith

7. Life on the Northern Frontier: Bioarchaeological Reconstructions of Eleventh-Century Households in North Iceland
   Guðný Zoëga and Kimmarie Murphy

Part IV: Violence on the Frontier

8. A Mass Grave Outside the Walls: The Commingled Assemblage from Ibida
   Andrei Soficaru, Claudia Radu, and Cristina I. Tica

9. A Line in the Sand: Bioarchaeological Interpretations of Life along the Borders of the Great Basin and the American Southwest
   Aaron R. Woods and Ryan P. Harrod

Part V: Challenges and Limitations of Bioarchaeological Methods and Theory

10. Mortuary Practices in the First Iron Age Romanian Frontier: The Commingled Assemblages of the Măgura Uroiului
    Anna J. Osterholtz, Virginia Lucas, Claira Ralston, Andre Gonciar, and Angelica Bălos

11. Marginalized Motherhood: Infant Burial in Seventeenth-Century Transylvania
    Jonathan D. Bethard, Anna J. Osterholtz, Zsolt Nyárádi, and Andre Gonciar

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