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Jane E. Buikstra

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Gender Female
Age 78
Date of birth November 2,1945
Zodiac sign Scorpio
Born Evansville
Indiana
United States
Citations 24,750
H index 64
Fields Anthropology
Paleopathology
Bioarchaeology
Job Anthropologist
Education The University of Chicago
DePauw University
BooksThe Bioarchaeology of Tuberculosis
Staging ritual
Hopewell in the lower Illinois Valley
The Perrins Ledge crematory
AffiliationsArizona State University
InterestsBioarchaeology
Paleopathology
Forensic Anthropology
Paleodemography
Tuberculosis
Edited worksRecreating Hopewell
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Date of Upd.
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Jane Ellen Buikstra is an American anthropologist and bioarchaeologist. Her 1977 article on the biological dimensions of archaeology coined and defined the field of bioarchaeology in the US as the application of biological anthropological methods to the study of archaeological problems.

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