Bioarchaeology Research Laboratory

La Florida Bioarchaeology Project

Principal Investigator:

Clark Spencer Larsen, Ohio State University

Collaborators:

Mark C. Griffin, San Francisco State University

Dale L. Hutchinson, University of North Carolina

Robert F. Pastor, University of Bradford

Christopher B. Ruff, John Hopkins University

Katherine F. Russell

Margaret J. Schoeninger, University of California, San Diego

Michael Schultz, University of Göttingen

Scott W. Simpson, Case Western Reserve University

Mark F. Teaford, Johns Hopkins University

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The Global Hisotry of health Project, co-directed by Richard Steckel, Clark Larsen, and Philip Walker, and working with collaborators throughout Europe, is a project involving numerous physical anthropologists, geographers, medical historians, historians, economists, economic historians, arcaheologists, and climatologists focusing on the documentation and interpretation of the history of human health over the last 10,000 years. The project grew out of the History of Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere, directed by Richard Steckel and Jerome Rose. The global project currently focuses on the history of health in Europe.

Global History of Health Project

Co-Principal Investigators:

Richard H. Steckel, Ohio State University

Clark Spencer Larsen, Ohio State University

Paul W. Sciulli, Ohio State University

Phillip L. Walker, University of California, Santa Barbara

Collaborators:

Pia Bennike, University of Copenhagen

Joel Blondiaux, Centre d'Etudes Paleopathologiques du Nord

Miguel C. Botella, University of Granada

John Brooke, Ohio State University

Yuri K. Chistov, Museum of Anthropology & Ethnography, St. Petersburg

Alfredo Coppa, University of Rome

Eugénia Cunha, University of Coimbra

Ebba During, Stockholm University

Paul Evans, Ohio State University

Brian Fagan, University of California, Santa Barbara

Gisela Grupe, University of Munich

Michael Haines, Colgate University

Barbara Hanawalt, Ohio State University

Henrik Jarl Hansen, National Museum of Denmark

Per Holck, University of OsloRimantas Jankauskas, Vilnius University

George Maat, University of Leiden

Antónia Marcsik, University of Szeged

Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Ohio State University

Astrid E. J. Ogilvie, University of Colorado

Luiz Oosterbeek, Instituto Politécnico de Tomar

Anastasia Papathanasiou, Greek Ministry of Culture

Geoffrey Parker, Ohio State University

Christian Pfister, University of Bern

Inna Potiekhina, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Charlotte Roberts, University of Durham

Randy Roth, Ohio State University

Michael Schultz, University of Göttingen

Maria Teschler-Nicola, Natural History Museum, Vienna

Lonnie Thompson, Ohio State University

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The Hunely Project is the study of the human remains recovered from the Civil War ironclad. The part of the project undertaken at Ohio State is the histological aging and demographic composition of the individuals who served on the ironclad.

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The Lauchheim Early Medieval Project involves the study of primary demographic data – especially age-at-death – in a large series of early Medieval remains from the village of Laucheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The project is directed by James Vaupel (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research) and Ursala Wittwer-Backofen (University of Freiburg). The lab's contribution to the project is the analysis of cranial suture closure and dental wear and their general reliability as estimators of age-at-death.

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