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Evaluating the Consistency of Age and Sex Assessments of Ohio Hopewell Human Remains by Previous Investigators

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The Scioto Hopewell and Their Neighbors

Part of the book series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology ((IDCA))

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The thick prehistory approach that we suggest for bringing past peoples and their cultures to life from their bioarchaeological remains requires, by definition, the identification of individuals and social groups. It also involves describing these individuals in action through their on-the-ground, sociocultural roles. An essential step in this reconstructive process is to determine the age and sex of each individual for which skeletal remains are extant. The age and sex of an individual at death will have played a part in determining the culture-specific age and gender categories of his or her social personae at the time of death, and the roles associated with those personae.

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Case, D.T. (2008). Evaluating the Consistency of Age and Sex Assessments of Ohio Hopewell Human Remains by Previous Investigators. In: The Scioto Hopewell and Their Neighbors. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77387-2_9

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