This article presents outcomes from a Workshop entitled “Bioarchaeology: Taking Stock and
Moving Forward,” which was held at Arizona State University (ASU) on March 6–8, 2020 …

Pacific populations have long been observed to suffer a high burden of metabolic disease,
including obesity, type 2 diabetes and gout. The 'Thrifty Genotype'hypothesis has frequently …

This paper reintroduces the concept of mass migration into debates concerning the timing
and nature of New Zealand's settlement by Polynesians. Upward revisions of New Zealand's …

The Pacific region provides unique opportunities to study human evolution including through
analyses of ancient DNA. While some of the earliest studies involving ancient DNA from …

The dispersal of modern humans across the globe began∼ 65,000 y ago when people first
left Africa and culminated with the settlement of East Polynesia, which occurred in the last …

Pacific Island populations, particularly those of Polynesian descent, have a high prevalence
of hyperuricaemia and gout. This is due to an inherently higher urate level among these …

Direct evidence of the environmental impact of human colonization and subsequent human
adaptational responses to new environments is extremely rare anywhere in the world. New …

ABSTRACT The South Island of New Zealand saw several major waves of migration in the
mid-nineteenth century, predominantly from Europe but also with an ethnically distinct …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is a globally distributed bacterial pathogen whose
population structure has largely been shaped by the activities of its obligate human host …

Gout has been part of human history for thousands of years. Skeletal evidence of the
disease among past people in Europe is often associated with high-status individuals whose …