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Jane Ellen Buikstra (1945–) is one of the most influential and outstanding American anthropologists in the field. Her scientific and academic work has had global influence. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from DePauw University in Indiana in 1967, and her Master’s (1969) and Doctorate (1972) degrees from the University of Chicago.
She had faculty positions at Northwestern University, University of Chicago, and University of New Mexico. She was Research Associate at the Field Museum of Natural History, the Museum of the American Indian, the University of Florida, and the National Museum of Natural History. Buikstra is currently a Regent’s Professor of Bioarchaeology and Director of the Center for Bioarchaeological Research of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
She has a long association with the Center for American Archaeology where she is President of the Board of Directors. This...
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Buikstra, J. & C. Roberts. 2012. The global history of paleopathology: pioneers and prospects. New York: Oxford University Press.
Further Reading
Buikstra, J.E. 1976.Hopewell in the Lower Illinois Valley: a regional approach to the study of biological variability and mortuary activity (Northwestern University Monograph 2). Evanston: Northwestern University.
-1977. Differential diagnosis: an epidemiological model. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 1976: 316-28.
-1981. A specialist in ancient cemetery studies looks at the burial issue. Early Man 3: 26-7.
- 1982. Reburial: how we all lose. California Archaeological Newsletter 1: 1-4.
- 1995. Tombs for the living…. or for the dead: the Osmore ancestors, in T. Dillehay, J. Bastien, J. Brown & J. Buikstra (ed.) Tombs for the ancestors: 229-80. Washington (DC): Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
Buikstra, J.E. & L.A Beck. 2006. Bioarchaeology: the contextual analysis of human remains. New York: Academic Press.
Buikstra, J.E. & D. Ubelaker. (ed.) 1994. Standards for data collection from human skeletal remains: Proceedings of a seminar at the Field Museum of Natural History. Fayetteville: Arkansas Archaeological Survey Press.
Buikstra, J.E., T.D. Price, J.H. Burton & L.E. Wright. 2004. Tombs from Copan’s Acropolis: a life history approach, in E.E. Bell, A. Marcello, A. Canuto & R.J. Sharer (ed.) Understanding early classic Copan: 191-212. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Komar, D. & J. Buikstra. 2007. Forensic anthropology: contemporary theory and practice. New York: Oxford University Press.
Roberts, C. & J. Buikstra. 2008. The bioarchaeology of tuberculosis: a global view on a reemerging disease. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
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Guillén, S. (2014). Buikstra, Jane E.. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_165
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