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Ancient pathogens and paleoepidemiology (2024)
Book Chapter
Blevins, K. E. (2024). Ancient pathogens and paleoepidemiology. In Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-323-99931-1.00202-6

The recovery of ancient pathogen genomes has greatly improved our understanding of infectious disease in the past. This chapter reviews the timeline and methodological advancements of pathogen paleogenomics and current sampling, labora-tory, bioinfor... Read More about Ancient pathogens and paleoepidemiology.

Structural violence and physical death at Tlatelolco: selecting the chronically malnourished for sacrifice at a Late Postclassic Mesoamerican city (1300-1521 CE) (2022)
Journal Article
Blevins, K. E., McGrane, M., Mansilla Lory, J., Arroyo, S. G., & Buikstra, J. E. (2023). Structural violence and physical death at Tlatelolco: selecting the chronically malnourished for sacrifice at a Late Postclassic Mesoamerican city (1300-1521 CE). Bioarchaeology international, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.5744/bi.2022.0011

Human sacrifice in Mesoamerican cities was diverse and highly ritualized, and it remains incompletely understood. Knowing who was selected for ritual violence is essential for interpreting specialized mortuary deposits and furthering research on Mexi... Read More about Structural violence and physical death at Tlatelolco: selecting the chronically malnourished for sacrifice at a Late Postclassic Mesoamerican city (1300-1521 CE).

Missing data in bioarchaeology II: A test of ordinal and continuous data imputation (2022)
Journal Article
Wissler, A., Blevins, K. E., & Buikstra, J. E. (2022). Missing data in bioarchaeology II: A test of ordinal and continuous data imputation. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 179(3), https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24614

Objectives Previous research has shown that while missing data are common in bioarchaeological studies, they are seldom handled using statistically rigorous methods. The primary objective of this article is to evaluate the ability of imputation to ma... Read More about Missing data in bioarchaeology II: A test of ordinal and continuous data imputation.

Missing data in bioarchaeology I: A review of the literature (2022)
Journal Article
Wissler, A., Blevins, K. E., & Buikstra, J. E. (2022). Missing data in bioarchaeology I: A review of the literature. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 179(3), 339-348. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24609

Objectives: Missing data are a frequent and unavoidable challenge in bioarchaeological research, yet researchers seldom make explicit statements about the bias and inferential limitations that missing data introduce into their studies. There are no g... Read More about Missing data in bioarchaeology I: A review of the literature.

Twenty‐first century bioarchaeology: Taking stock and moving forward (2022)
Journal Article
Buikstra, J. E., DeWitte, S. N., Agarwal, S. C., Baker, B. J., Bartelink, E. J., Berger, E., …Zakrzewski, S. R. (2022). Twenty‐first century bioarchaeology: Taking stock and moving forward. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 178(S74), 54-114. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24494

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 Evolu... Read More about Twenty‐first century bioarchaeology: Taking stock and moving forward.

Infection, Disease, and Biosocial Processes at the End of the Indus Civilization (2013)
Journal Article
Robbins Schug, G., Blevins, K. E., Cox, B., Gray, K., & Mushrif-Tripathy, V. (2013). Infection, Disease, and Biosocial Processes at the End of the Indus Civilization. PLoS ONE, 8(12), Article e84814. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084814

In the third millennium B.C., the Indus Civilization flourished in northwest India and Pakistan. The late mature phase (2200-1900 B.C.) was characterized by long-distance exchange networks, planned urban settlements, sanitation facilities, standardiz... Read More about Infection, Disease, and Biosocial Processes at the End of the Indus Civilization.