Dissertation Research: Intrasite Variation at Estuquina, Southern Peru

奥斯莫尔项目的重点是埃斯图奎纳，这是秘鲁莫奎夸附近的一个中后期遗址，为史前安第斯文化提供了重要的新信息。在这个项目中，学生将学习该项目的太平间部分，重点是人类遗骸。具体来说，她将研究场地内空间和生物模式的变化。这个项目将提供关于史前安第斯社会人口方面的重要新资料。它将增加我们对健康和疾病的认识，特别是结核病、颅骨变形和遗传形态学。这些数据将与文化变量进行比较，看看是否有证据表明，随着时间的推移，社会中的人口压力会增加。这项研究是少数几个强调史前社会人口方法的研究之一，它关注的是整个墓地，而不是单个坟墓。它将提供关于文化和人类生物学相互作用的埃斯图奎纳人口的准确重建，并将是对生物人类学的重要补充。

The Osmore Project focusing on Estuquina, a Late Intermediate Period site near Moqueuqua, Peru is providing significant new information about prehistoric Andean cultures. In this project the student will study the mortuary component of the project focusing on the human remains. Specifically she will look at intrasite variation in spatial and biological patterning. This project will provide important new information on the demographic aspects of prehistoric Andean society. It will increase our knowledge of health and disease, especially tuberculosis, cranial deformation and inherited morphology. These data will be compared with cultural variables to see if there is evidence of increases in population stress in the society over time. This study is one of the few to emphasize a population approach to a prehistoric society, focusing on an entire cemetery rather than single graves. It will provide accurate reconstruction of the human population at Estuquina with regard to the interaction of culture and human biology and will be an important addition to bioanthropology.