Isotopic studies of human skeletal remains from a sixteenth to seventeenth century AD churchyard in Campeche, Mexico: diet, place of origin, and age

TD Price, JH Burton, A Cucina, P Zabala… - Current …, 2012 - journals.uchicago.edu
In AD 2000, construction activities in the central plaza of the city of Campeche, Mexico, led to
the discovery of an early colonial church and an associated burial ground dating from the …

Bioarchaeology and the skeletons of the pre-Columbian Maya

AK Scherer - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2017 - Springer
This review explores the past two decades of research on ancient Maya skeletons. The
focus is on how this work has contributed to our understanding of health, diet, social change …

Crossing the peninsula: The role of N oh B ec, Yucatán, in ancient M aya C lassic Period population dynamics from an analysis of dental morphology and S r isotopes

A Cucina, TD Price, E Magaña Peralta… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives This article aims to infer population dynamics in the Noh Bec region (Yucatán
Peninsula, México) during the Maya Classic period (AD 350–800), based on a combined …

Population movements and identity in Postclassic Yucatan. Bioarchaeological analysis of human remains from the East Coast of the Yucatan peninsula

A Ortega-Muñoz, TD Price, JH Burton… - Journal of Archaeological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Different hypotheses exist to explain population development and replacement on the East
Coast of the Yucatan Peninsula after the so-called Maya collapse, a period of dynamic …

Population dynamics during the Classic and Postclassic period Maya in the northern Maya Lowlands: The analysis of dental morphological traits

A Cucina - … and bioarchaeology of population movement among …, 2015 - Springer
This chapter uses dental morphology to reconstruct population dynamics, biodistance and
populations' inner variability in 18 human dental collections from Classic and Postclassic …

Nutritional supplementation, tooth crown size, and trait expression in individuals from Tezonteopan, Mexico

EC Blankenship-Sefczek, AH Goodman, M Hubbe… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Understanding how epigenetic factors impact dental phenotypes can help refine the use of
teeth for elucidating biological relationships among human populations. We explored …

Genetic overview of the Maya populations: Mitochondrial DNA haplogroups

A González-Oliver, D Pineda-Vázquez… - Human …, 2018 - muse.jhu.edu
We identified mitochondrial DNA haplogroups A, B, C, and D in 75 present-day Maya
individuals, 24 Maya individuals of the colonial period, and 1 pre-Columbian Maya …

Regional population structure in Postclassic Mexico

CS Ragsdale - Ancient Mesoamerica, 2017 - cambridge.org
The majority of our knowledge about population structure in Mexico during the Postclassic
period (ad 900–1520) is based on archaeological data. During this time, populations were in …

Afinidades biológicas de la población de Oxtankah en el ámbito regional de la península de Yucatán durante el periodo Clásico

A Cucina, A Ortega Muñoz - Estudios de cultura maya, 2014 - scielo.org.mx
Se estudian las características morfológicas dentales de una muestra correspondiente a 73
restos de individuos adultos de ambos sexos, que van del periodo Clásico Temprano al …

Past, present and future perspectives in Maya bioarchaeology: A view from Yucatan, Mexico

V Tiesler, A Cucina - Archaeological Human Remains: Global …, 2014 - Springer
This chapter explores the core topic of this volume—ie global research perspectives in the
study of archaeologically retrieved human remains—from the Peninsula of Yucatan. Being …