Linking Health and Marriage Practices Among Commingled Assemblages

Kathryn Baustian; Cheryl Anderson

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-22554-8

Linking Health and Marriage Practices Among Commingled Assemblages

Kathryn Baustian, Cheryl Anderson

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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This research was undertaken in an attempt to better understand the social processes influencing rates of morbidity and mortality for a Bronze Age community from the Arabian Peninsula. The skeletal and mortuary data from a commingled tomb are used to demonstrate the utility of such complex assemblages in theorizing social processes such as marriage practices. In this study, we combine data on subadult morbidity and mortality with new information potentially suggesting population homogeneity based on developmental anomalies in some adult second cervical (C2) vertebrae. The contribution of this second line of evidence may further support previous hypotheses that consanguinity was a cultural practice in this Bronze Age community and that this practice may have negatively impacted the health of some individuals. This case study hopes to contribute to a growing literature focusing on complex, commingled assemblages and how careful analyses of these data sets can provide important information for addressing anthropological questions.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Theoretical Approaches to Analysis and Interpretation of Commingled Human Remains
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22554-8
State	Published - 2016
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