Recent publications by members of the Bioarchaeology at Brown Working Group:

Scherer, Andrew K., Ricardo Rodas, Joshua T. Schnell, Monica Urquizú, and Omar Alcover Firpi
(2024)  “The Man of Macabilero: An Osteobiography of Perservance.” In Mesoamerican Osteobiographies: Revealing the Lives and Deaths of Ancient Individuals, edited by G. Wrobel and A. Cucina, pp. 27-42. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. Accepted, April 2023.

Rivera Prince, Jordi A. and Amanda Brock Morales
(2024) “Backdirting: Theorizing Backdirt through Time, Place, and Process.” Journal of Field Archaeology 49 (2): 98–114.

Bolster, Alyssa L., Hannah J. JeanLouis, Lesley A. Gregoricka, and Jaime M. Ullinger
(2023)  Estimating adult age categories in commingled skeletons with Transition Analysis 3. American Journal of Biological Anthropology.

Milton, Emily B. P., Jordi A. Rivera Prince, and Melina Seabrook
(2023) “Reconciling Identity Narratives: Creating Collaborative Space with Isotopic Baselines.” Bioarchaeology International 8 (1–2): 123–139.

Watson, Sarah Watson, Joshua T. Schnell, Shanti Morell-Hart, and Andrew K. Scherer, and L. Dussol
(2022) “Healthcare in the Marketplace: Exploring Maya Medicinal Plants and Practices at Piedras Negras, Guatemala.” Ancient Mesoamerica 34:383-406.

Gloria Hernandez, Patrica Quintana, Marco Ramírez-Salomón, Elma Vega-Lizama, Michelle Morgan, Joshua T. Schnell, Andrew K. Scherer, Vera Tiesler
(2022) “Organic Compositional Analysis of Ancient Maya Tooth Sealants and Fillings” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 43 (doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103435).

Joshua T. Schnell and Andrew K. Scherer
(2021) “Classic Maya Dental Interventions: Evidence for Tooth Extractions at Piedras Negras, Guatemala.” Bioarchaeology International 5(1):47-67.

Scherer, Andrew K.
2021 “Recent Research on the Archaeology of War and Violence.” Annual Review of Anthropology 50:403-421.

Scherer, Andrew K.
(2022) “The Early Days of Mesoamerican Osteology.” In The Routledge Handbook of Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology, edited by V. Tiesler, pp. 21-32. Routledge, New York.

Scherer, Andrew K. and Joshua T. Schnell
(2022) “Maya Bioarchaeology”. In The Routledge Handbook of Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology, edited by V. Tiesler, pp. 168-180. Routledge, New York.

Scherer, Andrew K., Thomas Garrison, Stephen Houston, and Charles Golden
(2021) “Amortajados y Quemados: Reconstruyendo los Tratamientos Mortuorios Mayas durante el Período Clásico en El Zotz y El Kinel, Guatemala.” In Tratamientos Mortuorios del Cuerpo Humano: Perspectivas Tafonómicas y Arqueotanatológicas, edited by V. Tiesler, S. Suzuki, and G. Pereira, pp. 171-186. Centro Francés de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos, Mexico City.

Scherer, Andrew K.
(2020) “Graves, Dead Bodies, Souls, and Ancestors.” In The Maya World, edited by S. Hutson and T. Ardren, pp. 128-146. Routledge Press, New York.