research.
Refereed Articles
Gruenthal-Rankin, A., and T. Somogyi (in press) Opening the cabinets: A critical evaluation of skeletal teaching collections in the United States. American Journal of Biological Anthropology.
Adams DM, JR Bedard, SH Blatt, E Faisal, JR Goliath, G Gregory-Alcock, A Gruenthal-Rankin, PN Morales Lorenzo, AC Smith, SD Tallman, R Tegtmeyer Hawke. (2024). Speaking Truth to Power: Toward a Forensic Anthropology of Advocacy and Activism. Humans. 14(1):66-90.
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Gruenthal-Rankin, A., Somogyi, T., Roome, A., & DiGangi, E. A. (2023). Beyond the report: Prospects and challenges in forensic anthropological investigations of structural vulnerability. Forensic Science International: Synergy, 100315. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsisyn.2023.100315 (Open access)
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Gruenthal-Rankin, A. and T. Somogyi. (2022). Critical Review Essay: The Archaeology of Human Bones and Bioarchaeology: An Introduction to the Archaeology and Anthropology of the Dead. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24427
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Ramsier, M., A. Gruenthal-Rankin, K. Gaddis, and A. Koperkiewicz. (2021) Sample Size and Representational Bias in Small Sites: A Case Study of Stature from Medieval Prussia. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 31(4): 523-533. doi: 10.1002/oa.2969
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DiGangi, E. and A. Gruenthal-Rankin. 2019. Skeletal Stress Markers and Subsistence Strategy in Prehistoric Chilean Populations of the Semi-arid North. Chungará 51(4): 613-626. doi: 10.4067/S0717-73562019005002201
Gruenthal, A., T. Simmons and C. Moffat. 2012. Differential Decomposition Patterns in Charred Versus Un-Charred Remains. Journal of Forensic Sciences 57(1): 12-18. doi: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2011.01909.x
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Conference Papers
Gaddis, K. and A. Gruenthal-Rankin (2024). Beyond Nuns and Grandmothers: Intersectional aging and the role of elder females in medieval Prussia. European Association of Archaeologists 30th Annual Meeting, Rome, IT.
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Gruenthal-Rankin, A., K. Lalley, N. Sookla, and K. Aceret (2024). Missing and Unidentified in Hawai'i: Collaborative, community-driven forensics. University of West O'ahu Research and Engaged Scholarship Conference.
Ślusarska, K., M. Adamczyk, J. Karmowski, A. Gruenthal-Rankin, K. Gaddis, and M. Ramsier (2024). Life and Death by the Lake in Pomerania: Introducing the Late Medieval Cemetery at Żelewo Site 1-3. Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
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DiGangi, E., A. Gruenthal-Rankin, and T. Somogyi. “They’re People Too”: Perspectives on the (Dis)embodiment of Teaching Assemblages. American Association of Biological Anthropologists’ 91st Annual Scientific Meeting, Denver, CO.
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Gruenthal-Rankin, A., M. Ramsier, K. Gaddis, and A. Koperkiewicz. Early-Life Dietary Stress and Frailty after Colonization and Conversion in Medieval Prussia. American Association of Biological Anthropologists’ 91st Annual Scientific Meeting, Denver, CO.
DiGangi, E., A. Gruenthal-Rankin, and T. Somogyi. 2021. Forensic Science and the Living: The Ethics of "Determining" Age from Minor Children. American Academy of Forensic Sciences 73rd Annual Scientific Meeting, virtual.
DiGangi, E., A. Gruenthal-Rankin and M. Trimble. 2018. Forensic Science, Death, and the Public: Towards Effective and Compassionate Communication. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 87th Annual Meeting, Austin, TX. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 165(S66): 68.
Gruenthal-Rankin, A., M. Ramsier, A. Koperkiewicz and M. Polcyn. 2016. Investigating early-life stress and early death through growth disruption in a medieval Prussian sample. 6th Annual Bioarchaeologists’ Northeast Regional Dialogue, Oneonta, NY.
Gruenthal AM. 2010. Differential Decomposition Patterns in Charred Versus Un-Charred Remains. American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. Proceedings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. 16: 355.
Selected Conference Posters
Ramsier, M., A. Gruenthal-Rankin, K. Gaddis, and A. Koperkiewicz. 2022. Dietary trends in the post-colonization medieval Prussian region. American Association of Biological Anthropologists’ 91st Annual Scientific Meeting, Denver, CO.
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Gaddis, K., M. Ramsier, A. Koperkiewicz, M. Polcyn, A. Gruenthal-Rankin. 2019. Exploring Frailty in Bezławki: A Modified Method for the Assessment of Frailty in Human Skeletal Remains. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 88th Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 168(S68): 80.
Gruenthal-Rankin, A., K. Gaddis, A. Koperkiewicz, M. Polcyn, and M. Ramsier. 2019. Testing the Effectiveness of Permanent Canine Tooth Metrics for Sex Estimation in a Medieval Prussian Sample. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 88th Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 168(S68): 93.
Pinkston, E., A. Gruenthal-Rankin, S. Glasgow, and M. Ramsier. 2019. Estimating Body Mass for Subadults: A Radiographic Study of the Femur. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 88th Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 168(S68): 191.
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Gaddis, K., A. Gruenthal-Rankin, M. Ramsier, A. Koperkiewicz and M. Polcyn. 2018. Stress and frailty in Medieval Prussia: Interpretations from skeletal remains at Bezławki. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 87th Annual Meeting, Austin, TX. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 165(S66): 92.
Horvat, J., M. Ramsier, A. Gruenthal-Rankin, A. Koperkiewicz and M. Polcyn. 2018. Nutrition and diet of a Late Medieval Prussian population: What the analysis of dental microwear can tell us. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 87th Annual Meeting, Austin, TX. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 165(S66): 125.