Jane E. Buikstra
modern1945 – present

Jane E. Buikstra

anthropologist · writer

Jane Ellen Buikstra (born 1945) is an American anthropologist and bioarchaeologist. Her 1977 article on the biological dimensions of archaeology coined and defined the field of bioarchaeology in the US as the application of biological anthropological methods to the study of archaeological problems.

Fields
bioarchaeology
Nationality
United States
Born
1945

Associated disciplines

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