ABSTRACT
In her preface to the volume Biocultural Adaptation in Prehistoric America, Gwen Kennedy Neville, editor of the Southern Anthropological Society Series in which the volume was published, noted that the papers in the volume represented an important attempt to combine and share knowledge (1977):
The question or issue that I try to address in this chapter is whether we have made progress since the early 1980s in bioarchaeology in the creative sharing of knowledge and holistic study of human beings. The six authors whose work is represented in the 1977 volume attempted to demonstrate the value of physical anthropology and archaeology working together to address problems of the past, and although this may have been a somewhat ambitious and perhaps even naive goal, it was certainly a worthy one.
