TY - JOUR
T1 - Twenty-first century bioarchaeology
T2 - Taking stock and moving forward
AU - Buikstra, Jane E.
AU - DeWitte, Sharon N.
AU - Agarwal, Sabrina C.
AU - Baker, Brenda J.
AU - Bartelink, Eric J.
AU - Berger, Elizabeth
AU - Blevins, Kelly E.
AU - Bolhofner, Katelyn
AU - Boutin, Alexis T.
AU - Brickley, Megan B.
AU - Buzon, Michele R.
AU - de la Cova, Carlina
AU - Goldstein, Lynne
AU - Gowland, Rebecca
AU - Grauer, Anne L.
AU - Gregoricka, Lesley A.
AU - Halcrow, Siân E.
AU - Hall, Sarah A.
AU - Hillson, Simon
AU - Kakaliouras, Ann M.
AU - Klaus, Haagen D.
AU - Knudson, Kelly J.
AU - Knüsel, Christopher J.
AU - Larsen, Clark Spencer
AU - Martin, Debra L.
AU - Milner, George R.
AU - Novak, Mario
AU - Nystrom, Kenneth C.
AU - Pacheco-Forés, Sofía I.
AU - Prowse, Tracy L.
AU - Robbins Schug, Gwen
AU - Roberts, Charlotte A.
AU - Rothwell, Jessica E.
AU - Santos, Ana Luisa
AU - Stojanowski, Christopher
AU - Stone, Anne C.
AU - Stull, Kyra E.
AU - Temple, Daniel H.
AU - Torres, Christina M.
AU - Toyne, J. Marla
AU - Tung, Tiffiny A.
AU - Ullinger, Jaime
AU - Wiltschke-Schrotta, Karin
AU - Zakrzewski, Sonia R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 American Association of Biological Anthropologists.
PY - 2022/8
Y1 - 2022/8
N2 - This article presents outcomes from a Workshop entitled “Bioarchaeology: Taking Stock and Moving Forward,” which was held at Arizona State University (ASU) on March 6–8, 2020. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the School of Human Evolution and Social Change (ASU), and the Center for Bioarchaeological Research (CBR, ASU), the Workshop's overall goal was to explore reasons why research proposals submitted by bioarchaeologists, both graduate students and established scholars, fared disproportionately poorly within recent NSF Anthropology Program competitions and to offer advice for increasing success. Therefore, this Workshop comprised 43 international scholars and four advanced graduate students with a history of successful grant acquisition, primarily from the United States. Ultimately, we focused on two related aims: (1) best practices for improving research designs and training and (2) evaluating topics of contemporary significance that reverberate through history and beyond as promising trajectories for bioarchaeological research. Among the former were contextual grounding, research question/hypothesis generation, statistical procedures appropriate for small samples and mixed qualitative/quantitative data, the salience of Bayesian methods, and training program content. Topical foci included ethics, social inequality, identity (including intersectionality), climate change, migration, violence, epidemic disease, adaptability/plasticity, the osteological paradox, and the developmental origins of health and disease. Given the profound changes required globally to address decolonization in the 21st century, this concern also entered many formal and informal discussions.
AB - This article presents outcomes from a Workshop entitled “Bioarchaeology: Taking Stock and Moving Forward,” which was held at Arizona State University (ASU) on March 6–8, 2020. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the School of Human Evolution and Social Change (ASU), and the Center for Bioarchaeological Research (CBR, ASU), the Workshop's overall goal was to explore reasons why research proposals submitted by bioarchaeologists, both graduate students and established scholars, fared disproportionately poorly within recent NSF Anthropology Program competitions and to offer advice for increasing success. Therefore, this Workshop comprised 43 international scholars and four advanced graduate students with a history of successful grant acquisition, primarily from the United States. Ultimately, we focused on two related aims: (1) best practices for improving research designs and training and (2) evaluating topics of contemporary significance that reverberate through history and beyond as promising trajectories for bioarchaeological research. Among the former were contextual grounding, research question/hypothesis generation, statistical procedures appropriate for small samples and mixed qualitative/quantitative data, the salience of Bayesian methods, and training program content. Topical foci included ethics, social inequality, identity (including intersectionality), climate change, migration, violence, epidemic disease, adaptability/plasticity, the osteological paradox, and the developmental origins of health and disease. Given the profound changes required globally to address decolonization in the 21st century, this concern also entered many formal and informal discussions.
KW - climate change
KW - ethics
KW - graduate curriculum
KW - identity
KW - infectious disease
KW - migration
KW - violence
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U2 - 10.1002/ajpa.24494
DO - 10.1002/ajpa.24494
M3 - Article
C2 - 36790761
AN - SCOPUS:85143795592
SN - 0002-9483
VL - 178
SP - 54
EP - 114
JO - American Journal of Biological Anthropology
JF - American Journal of Biological Anthropology
IS - S74
ER -