Claire Ebert
University of Pittsburgh, PA·Social Science
Skeletons can tell the life stories of people who lived long ago. Bioarchaeology, the study of human skeletal remains from archaeological sites, reveals details about past people's health, diet and movement, and about how early communities adapted to change.
- Fields
Social Science
Ecology & Evolution
- Topics
bioarchaeology
human skeletal remains
stable isotope analysis
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Feb 2027
What they work on
- Reconstruct diet and mobility in an early complex society through isotopic analysis of chemical signatures in human skeletal remains.
- Assess health and disease history in these past populations using paleopathological examination of bone, and estimate population relationships with biodistance comparisons of skeletal traits.
- Place findings in regional context by comparing new data with skeletal collections from other sites, and record burials using photogrammetry to build long-term digital archives contributed to an open-access database.
More about the research
This doctoral dissertation project investigates adaptive processes in an early complex cultural context.
Why it matters
The work adds concrete evidence about how people in an early complex society adapted through diet, mobility and health. Its open-access dataset and digital burial records could help preserve archaeological heritage and give other researchers comparative material for studying past populations.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Alexandra Greenwald
University of Utah, UT·Social Science
Reconstruct the mobility and residential histories of 41 ancestors from a 12,000-9,000-year-old Bay Area mortuary site using strontium isotope analysis of tooth enamel, which records the geology of where a person lived as the enamel formed.
Justin Pargeter
New York University, NY·Social Science
Track how hunter-gatherers made, maintained, and repaired stone tools before and during a shift toward eating more fish and shellfish, using stone tool collections from two sites spanning the past 5,000 years.
John Heine
Jacksonville University, FL·Ecology & Evolution
Quantify percent cover, biomass, blade length and reproductive characteristics of the red algae Phyllophora antarctica and Iridaea cordata across depth and light gradients at seven sites in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.
The school
University of Pittsburgh: 83 labs on PI Pages, $1.5B a year on research, 403 research doctorates a year.
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