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A Preliminary Report on Health and Disease in Early Lapita Skeletons, Vanuatu: Possible Biological Costs of Island Colonization

Hallie R. Buckley Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Nancy G. Tayles Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Matthew J. T. Spriggs School of Archaeology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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Stuart Bedford Department of Archaeology and Natural History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Pages 87-114 | Received 22 Jul 2007, Accepted 20 Nov 2007, Published online: 21 May 2008

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Frédérique Valentin, Stuart Bedford, HallieR. Buckley & Matthew Spriggs. (2010) Lapita Burial Practices: Evidence for Complex Body and Bone Treatment at the Teouma Cemetery, Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 5:2, pages 212-235.
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Monica Tromp, Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith, Rebecca Kinaston, Stuart Bedford, Matthew Spriggs & Hallie Buckley. (2020) Exploitation and utilization of tropical rainforests indicated in dental calculus of ancient Oceanic Lapita culture colonists. Nature Human Behaviour 4:5, pages 489-495.
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Rebecca L. Kinaston & Hallie R. Buckley. (2016) Isotopic insights into diet and health at the site of Namu, Taumako Island, Southeast Solomon Islands. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 9:7, pages 1405-1420.
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Rebecca L. Kinaston, Georgia L. Roberts, Hallie R. Buckley & Marc Oxenham. (2016) A bioarchaeological analysis of oral and physiological health on the south coast of New Guinea. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 160:3, pages 414-426.
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Rebecca L. Kinaston, Dimitri Anson, Peter Petchey, Richard Walter, Kasey Robb & Hallie Buckley. (2015) Lapita diet and subsistence strategies on Watom Island, Papua New Guinea: New stable isotope evidence from humans and animals. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 157:1, pages 30-41.
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Hallie R. Buckley, Rebecca Kinaston, Siân E. Halcrow, Aimee Foster, Matthew Spriggs & Stuart Bedford. (2014) Scurvy in a tropical paradise? Evaluating the possibility of infant and adult vitamin C deficiency in the Lapita skeletal sample of Teouma, Vanuatu, Pacific islands. International Journal of Paleopathology 5, pages 72-85.
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K. F. Robb, H. R. Buckley, M. Spriggs & S. Bedford. (2012) Cortical index of three prehistoric human Pacific Island samples. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 22:3, pages 284-293.
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Ann L. W. Stodder & Timothy Rieth. (2011) Chapter 10: Ancient Mortuary Ritual and Human Taphonomy. Fieldiana Anthropology 42, pages 197-217.
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Fiona Petchey, Matthew Spriggs, Foss Leach, Mike Seed, Christophe Sand, Michael Pietrusewsky & Katy Anderson. (2011) Testing the human factor: radiocarbon dating the first peoples of the South Pacific. Journal of Archaeological Science 38:1, pages 29-44.
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Alice A. Storey, Matthew Spriggs, Stuart Bedford, Stuart C. Hawkins, Judith H. Robins, Leon Huynen & Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith. (2010) Mitochondrial DNA from 3000-year old chickens at the Teouma site, Vanuatu. Journal of Archaeological Science 37:10, pages 2459-2468.
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Frédérique Valentin, Hallie R. Buckley, Estelle Herrscher, Rebecca Kinaston, Stuart Bedford, Matthew Spriggs, Stuart Hawkins & Ken Neal. (2010) Lapita subsistence strategies and food consumption patterns in the community of Teouma (Efate, Vanuatu). Journal of Archaeological Science 37:8, pages 1820-1829.
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Rachel M. Scott, Hallie R. Buckley, Matthew Spriggs, Frédérique Valentin & Stuart Bedford. (2010) Identification of the first reported Lapita cremation in the Pacific Islands using archaeological, forensic and contemporary burning evidence. Journal of Archaeological Science 37:5, pages 901-909.
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Ben Shaw, Hallie Buckley, Glenn Summerhayes, Dimitri Anson, Stephanie Garling, Frederique Valentin, Herman Mandui, Claudine Stirling & Malcolm Reid. (2010) Migration and mobility at the Late Lapita site of Reber–Rakival (SAC), Watom Island using isotope and trace element analysis: a new insight into Lapita interaction in the Bismarck Archipelago. Journal of Archaeological Science 37:3, pages 605-613.
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R.L. Kinaston, H.R. Buckley, S.E. Halcrow, M.J.T. Spriggs, S. Bedford, K. Neal & A. Gray. (2009) Investigating foetal and perinatal mortality in prehistoric skeletal samples: a case study from a 3000-year-old Pacific Island cemetery site. Journal of Archaeological Science 36:12, pages 2780-2787.
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