Debra L. Martin is professor of biological anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Caryn E. Tegtmeyer is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
This volume explores the role that injury recidivism and accumulative trauma plays in prehistoric, historic, and modern contexts. Case studies provide examples of the ways in which skeletal remains can be used to understand and analyze repetitive trauma.
Introduction, by Caryn E. Tegtmeyer and Debra L. Martin
Chapter 1: Injury Recidivism Revisited: Clinical Research, Limitations and Implications for Bioarchaeology, by Margaret Judd
Part I: Prehistoric Case Studies of Injury Recidivism
Chapter 2: Socializing Violence: Interpersonal Violence Recidivism at Abu Fatima (Sudan), by Sarah A. Schrader and Stuart Tyson Smith
Chapter 3: Cranial Trauma and Victimization among Ancestral Pueblo Farmers of the Northern San Juan Region, by Kristin A. Kuckelman
Chapter 4: Injury and Re-injury among the Ancestral Pueblo and Fremont, by Ryan P. Harrod, Alyssa Willett, Meaghan Kincaid, Aaron Woods
Part II: Historic Case Studies of Injury Recidivism
Chapter 5: Disease, Trauma & Stigma: Did Chronic Infection with Syphilis Influence Experiences of Trauma and Recidivistic Trauma in Post-Medieval London? by Molly K. Zuckerman, Michelle Davenport, Petra Banks, and Ryan King
Chapter 6: Evaluating the Evidence for Injury Recidivism in Two Parish Communities from Industrial-era London, by Derek A. Boyd and Colleen F. Milligan
Chapter 7: Sugar and Suffering: A Case Study on Injury Recidivism, Overall Health, and Structural Violence from the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, by Sarah A. Mathena and Molly K. Zuckerman
Chapter 8: The Bioarchaeology of Violence Recidivism and Labor Abuse in 19th Century Chinese by Ryan P. Harrod and John J. Crandall
Chapter 9: Fractured Lives: Structural Violence, Trauma, and Recidivism in Urban and Industrialized 19th-Century-Born African Americans and Euro-Americans, by Carlina de la Cova
Part III: Contemporary Case Studies of Injury Recidivism
Chapter 10: An Exploration of Skeletal Evidence of Injury Recidivism in Cases of Transients and Homelessness from Northern California, by Julia R. Prince-Buitenhuys, Heather L. MacInnes, Colleen F. Milligan, and Eric J. Bartelink
Chapter 11: Homicide in Sin City: Patterns of Violent Death and Injury Recidivism in Clark County, NV, by Caryn E. Tegtmeyer, Debra L. Martin, and William Gazza
Chapter 12: A Life History of Skeletal Trauma: Cases from a Medical Examiner's Office, by Jennifer C. Love and Sharon M. Derrick
Conclusion, by Debra L. Martin and Caryn E. Tegtmeyer
About the Contributors