The Poetics of Violence in Afroeurasian Bioarchaeology

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Roselyn A. Campbell received her PhD in Archaeology from the Cotsen Institute at UCLA. She has conducted archaeological and bioarchaeological fieldwork in Egypt, Peru, Spain, Ethiopia, the U.K., and the western United States. Her research encompasses anthropological approaches to violence and trauma in the past, the history and evolution of cancer in hominin remains, ancient Egyptian archaeology and funerary practices, health and disease in the past, and portrayals of archaeology in popular culture. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in Biological Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside, as well as the Assistant Director of the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy and the co-founder and Executive Director of the Paleo-oncology Research Organization.<div> </div><div>Anna J. Osterholtz received her PhD from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has excavated and analyzed skeletal remains from Europe (Croatia, Romania, and Cyprus), the Near East (the UAE, Jordan, and Israel), and the Americas (Mexico, Belize, and the US), focusing on the social role of violent performance and mortuary processing in identity formation and negotiation. She is also a specialist in the analysis of commingled and fragmentary bone assemblages. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures at Mississippi State University. </div>

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