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Osteological Research in Classical Archaeology: Extended Bibliography
Michael MacKinnon
6. Aging, Sexing, and Osteometrics
7. Ritual and Sacrifice
8. Diet Reconstruction
9. Butchery
10. Worked Bone and Industrial Use
11. DNA and Genetic Research
12. Istopic and Trace Element Research
Human Osteology: Synthetic Works
and Larger Integrative Works
The following list includes a selection of
works that incorporate large regional, temporal,
or topical issues in human osteology in
the classical context. Many take a comparative
approach, synthesizing data from several sites,
regions, and/or time periods to assess patterns
for ancient cultures. Several of the time period
and geographic locations considered among
the works below include Etruscan Italy, Roman
Egypt, Mycenaean Greece, Iron Age and
Hellenistic Sicily, Minoan Crete, and Roman
Italy. Topics run a wide gamut, from investigative
issues such as paleonutrition, mortuary
practices, cremation, demography, and
osteometric to methodological considerations
in data recording and analysis. Supplemental
materials can also be found in the databases for
individual sites and paleopathology included
below, as many of these also touch upon larger
comparative aspects in their analyses.
Angel, J.L. 1972a. “Ecology and Population in the
Eastern Mediterranean.” WorldArch 4:88–105.
———. 1972b. “Biological Relations of Egyptians
and Eastern Mediterranean Populations During
Pre-Dynastic and Dynastic Times.” Journal of
Human Evolution 1:307–13.
Bartoli, F., F. Mallegni, and G. Fornaciari. 1997. “Le
risorse alimentari nel mondo etrusco: Aspetti
della paleodieta in due gruppi umani a cultura
etrusca.” In Atti del XIX Convegno di Studi Etruschi
ed Italici (Volterra, 15–19 ottobre 1995), edited by G.
Maetzke, 477–88. Florence: Olschki Editore.
Becker, M.J. 1982a. “Human Skeletal Analysis
and the Study of the History and Prehistory of
Southern Italy: The Development of a Program
of Study.” Studi di Antichità 3:133–53.
———. 1982b. “Anthropological Appendix.” In “Cremation
Among the Lucanians,” by M. Gualtieri,
479–81. AJA 86(4):475–79.
———. 1983. “Children’s Burials in Puglia from the
Iron Age to the Second Century A.D.: Cultural
Continuities.” Studi di Antichità 4:261–84.
———. 1992. “Cultural Uniformity During the Italian
Iron Age: Sardinian Nuraghi as Regional Markers.”
In Sardinia in the Mediterranean: A Footprint
in the Sea, edited by R.H. Tykot and T.K. Andrews,
204–9. Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology
3. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
———. 1995. “An Analysis of Etruscan Skeletal Re-
mains from Funerary Urns at the Field Museum
of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois.” ArchNews
20:26–31.
———. 1995–1996. “Skeletal Studies of Sicilian Populations:
A Survey.” Accordia Research Papers 6:
83–117.
———. 2000. “Skeletal Studies of the People of Sicily:
An Update on Research into Human Remains
from Archaeological Contexts.” International
Journal of Anthropology 15(3–4):191–239.
———. 2002. “The People of Sicily: Studies of Human
Skeletal Remains and of Human Biology
from the Palaeolithic to Modern Times.” Rivista
di Antropologia 80:1–120.
Belcastro, M.G., V. Mariotti, F. Facchini, and B. Bonfiglioli.
2004. “Proposal of a Data Collection Form
to Record Dento-Alveolar Features: Application
to Two Roman Skeletal Samples from Italy.” Collegium
Anthropologicum 28:161–77.
Belcastro, M.G., E. Rastelli, V. Mariotti, C. Consiglio,
F. Facchini, and B. Bonfiglioli. 2007. “Continuity
or Discontinuity of the Life-Style in Central
Italy During the Roman Imperial Age–Early
Middle Ages Transition: Diet, Health and Behavior.”
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
132:381–94.
Bisel, S.C. 1980. “A Pilot Study in Aspects of Human
Nutrition in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean,
with Particular Attention to Trace Minerals in
Several Populations from Different Time Periods.”
Ph.D. diss., University of Minnesota.
Bisel, S.C., and J.L. Angel. 1985. “Health and Nutrition
in Mycenaean Greece: A Study in Human
Skeletal Remains.” In Contributions to Aegean
Archaeology: Studies in Honor of W.A. McDonald,
edited by N.C. Wilkie and W.D.E. Coulson,
197–209. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press.
Borgognini Tarli, S.M., and F. Mazzotta. 1986. “Physical
Anthropology of Italy from the Bronze Age
to the Barbaric Age.” In Ethnogenese Europaischer
Volker, edited by W. Bernard and A. Kandler-Palsson,
147–72. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag.
Boyd, M.J. 2002. Middle Helladic and Early Mycenaean
Mortuary Practices in the Southern and Western Peloponnese.
BAR-IS 1009. Oxford: Archaeopress.
* no skeletal data presented, but appendices contain
detailed information on sites that form the basis
of study
Cantacuzene, G. 1910. “Contribution a la craniologie
des Romains anciens.” L’Anthropologie 21:55–74.
Coppa, A., P. Colarossi, M.E. Danubio, D. Macinelli,
and P.P. Petrone. 1990. “Aspetti paleodemografici
in campioni di popolazione adulta dell’Italia
Centrale durante l’Eta del Ferro.” Antropologia
Contemporanea 13:179–91.
Coppa, A., A. Cucina, D. Mancinelli, R. Vargiu, and
J.M. Calcagno. 1998. “Dental Anthropology of
Central-Southern Iron Age Italy: The Evidence
of Metric Versus Nonmetric Traits.” American
Journal of Physical Anthropology 107:371–86.
Cucina, A., D. Mancinelli, and A. Coppa. 1998.
“Demography, Nutrition and Stress in the Italian
Peninsula from the Copper Age to the Roman
Imperial Age.” Rivista di Antropologia (Roma)
Suppl. 76:135–38.
Domurad, M. 1986. “The Populations of Ancient