Session and Conference Organization:

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Bethard, J., A. Gonciar, K. Zejdlik, F. West, and Zs. Nyaradi (Colloquium Organizers). Seventh International Student Colloquium on Osteology and Bioarchaeology. Session I: Adult Osteology; II: Juvenile Osteology; III: Commingled Remains and Funerary Archaeology. Haáz Rezső Múzeum, Odorheiu Secuiesc (Harghita, România).

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​​Bethard, J., A. Gonciar, K. Zejdlik, F. West, and Zs. Nyaradi (Colloquium Organizers). Sixth International Student Colloquium on Osteology and Bioarchaeology. Session I: Adult Osteology; II: Juvenile Osteology; III: Commingled Remains and Funerary Archaeology. Haáz Rezső Múzeum, Odorheiu Secuiesc (Harghita, România).

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Bethard, J., A. Gonciar, and Zs. Nyaradi (Colloquium Organizers). Fifth International Student Colloquium on Osteology and Bioarchaeology. Session I: Adult Osteology and II: Juvenile Osteology. Haáz Rezső Múzeum, Odorheiu Secuiesc (Harghita, România).

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Bethard, J., A. Gonciar, and Zs. Nyaradi (Colloquium Organizers). Fourth International Student Colloquium on Osteology and Bioarchaeology. Session I: Adult Osteology and II: Juvenile Osteology. Haáz Rezső Múzeum, Odorheiu Secuiesc (Harghita, România).

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Osterholtz, A., C. Ralston, A. Gonciar, and Zs. Nyaradi (Colloquium Organizers). Fourth International Student Colloquium on Osteology and Bioarchaeology. Session III: Pathology. Haáz Rezső Múzeum, Odorheiu Secuiesc (Harghita, România).

 

Bethard, J., A. Gonciar, and Zs. Nyaradi (Colloquium Organizers). Third International Student Colloquium on Osteology and Bioarchaeology. Session I: Adult Osteology and II: Juvenile Osteology. Haáz Rezső Múzeum, Odorheiu Secuiesc (Harghita, Romania).

 

Osterholtz, A., V. Lucas, A. Gonciar, and A. Balos (Colloquium Organizers). Third International Student Colloquium on Osteology and Bioarchaeology. Session III: Commingled Remains. Museum of Dacian and Roman Civilization, Rapoltu Mare (Hunedoara, România).

 

Bethard, J., A. Gonciar, and Zs. Nyaradi (Colloquium Organizers). Second International Student Colloquium on Osteology and Bioarchaeology. Session I: Adult Osteology and II: Juvenile Osteology. Haáz Rezső Múzeum, Odorheiu Secuiesc (Harghita, Romania).

 

Ibarra, A., and A. Gonciar (Session Organizers). Composing Unity and Subverting Sovereignty in Iron-Age & Roman Dacia Session. Archaeological Institute of America Conference. Chicago (Illinois, USA).

 

Bethard, J., A. Gonciar, and Zs. Nyaradi (Colloquium Organizers). First International Student Colloquium on Osteology and Bioarchaeology. Session I and II. Haáz Rezső Múzeum, Odorheiu Secuiesc (Harghita, Romania).

 

Gonciar, A. (Session Organizer). New Perspectives in Transylvanian Archaeology Session, Theoretical Archaeology Group (T.A.G.) Conference, State University of New York (S.U.N.Y.) at Buffalo (New York, USA).

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Conferences Paper Presentations:

 

Bethard, J.D, T. Ainger, A. Gonciar, and Zs. Nyaradi. “Surviving a Traumatic Head Injury in Medieval Europe: A Case Study from Transylvania”. The 25th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Bern (Switzerland).

 

Reinman, L., K. Zejdlik, Zs. Nyaradi, and A. Gonciar. “Biocultural Analysis of Atypical Mortuary Pattern Symbolism in Three Medieval Transylvanian Millstone Burials”. 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque (New Mexico, USA).

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Zejdlik, K., J. Bethard, Zs. Nyaradi, and A. Gonciar. “Medieval Transylvanian Church Burial Patterns and Demographics”. 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque (New Mexico, USA).

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Bethard, J.D., Zs. Nyaradi, A. Gonciar, C. Monroe, and C. Hoffman. “Molecular Approaches to understanding the Past: a Case Study from 17th Century Transylvania”. The 24nd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Barcelona (Spain).

 

Bethard, J.D., K. Zejdlik, F. West, Zs. Nyaradi, and A. Gonciar. “Demographic Burial Patterns within the Walls of a Medieval Transylvanian Székely Church”. The 24nd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Barcelona (Spain).

 

Morris, I.M., B. Glisic, and A. Gonciar. “Archaeological Ground Penetrating Radar Surveys Under Variable Soil Moisture: Visual and Numerical Results”. The 17th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), Rapperswil (Switzerland).

 

Morris, I.M., A. Gonciar, J. Cleary, J. Keppeler, and B.Glisic. “Confirming Archaeological Excavation Results with Ground Penetrating Radar: The Main Courtyard of Corvin Castle”. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, Washington (D.C., USA).

 

Morris, I.M.,, B. Glisic, and A. Gonciar. “Extracting Archaeological Features from GPR Surveys Conducted with Variable Soil Moisture Conditions”. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, New Orleans (Louisiana, USA)

 

Brown, A., and A. Gonciar. “Dacians and the Sense of Place: Settlement Abandonment, Settlement Hierarchy and Tribal Identity”. New Perspectives in Transylvanian Archaeology Session. Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo (New York, USA).

 

Costea, Fl., A. Balos, and A. Gonciar. “The Interactions Between the Dacians and the Classical World, From Burebista to the Dacian Conquest: From History to (arti)Fact”. New Perspectives in Transylvanian Archaeology Session. Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo (New York, USA).

 

Filipek-Ogden, K., S. Gloux, and A. Gonciar. “Ain’t No Sunshine: Pathological Links to the Potential Adaptive. Strategies of the Noua Population of the Transylvanian Bronze Age”. New Perspectives in Transylvanian Archaeology Session. Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo (New York, USA).

 

Gloux, S., S. McGrath, E. Green, and A. Gonciar. “Demystifying a Wrongful Assumption: Horseback Riding in the Late Bronze Age Noua Populations in Transylvania”. New Perspectives in Transylvanian Archaeology Session. Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo (New York, USA).

 

Gonciar, A. “Introductory Remarks: The Colonizing Power of Theory”. New Perspectives in Transylvanian Archaeology Session. Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo (New York, USA).

 

Gonciar, A. “When the East meets the West: Negotiating Culture History Trajectories in Romania”. New Perspectives in Transylvanian Archaeology Session. Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo (New York, USA).

 

Gonciar, A., and A. Georgescu. “Gold Trajectories in Transylvania during the Late Neolithic: The Petresti Gold”. New Perspectives in Transylvanian Archaeology Session. Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo (New York, USA).

 

Gloux, S. and A. Gonciar. “Integrating DNA Analyses to Bioarchaeology and Physical Anthropology Studies. The Potential Benefits in Approaching Unknown Populations: the Noua Culture (Romania)”. European Bronze Age Session. Society for American Archaeology Conference, St. Louis (Missouri, USA).

 

Gloux, S. and A. Gonciar. “Late Bronze Age Populations in Transylvania”. Mortuary Analysis Session. Society for American Archaeology Conference, Sacramento (California, USA).

 

Gonciar, A. “Image and Identity: Being Cool in Transylvania (Romania) during the Middle Bronze Age”.  The Archaeology of Imagery Session. Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, Berkley University (California, USA).

 

Gonciar, A. “Practices of Change, Change of Practices: the Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age Transition in Transylvania (Romania)”. Power, Conflict and Ritual in Eurasia Session. Society for American Archaeology Conference, Sacramento (California, USA).

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Gloux, S., and A. Gonciar. "Resturi umane fragmentare din epoca bronzului tarziu:metodologie aplicata / Late Bronze Age Fragmented Human Remains: Applied Methodology". Simpozion Archaeomet: National Symposium of Archaeometry. Bucuresti (Romania).

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Gonciar, A. “Extracting Emotion: Funeral Behavior during the Late Bronze Age in Romania”. European Bronze Age Session. Society for American Archaeology Conference, St. Louis (Missouri, USA).

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Gonciar, A. “The Materiality of Emotion: Re-Conceptualizing the Archaeological Subject. A Theoretical Perspective”. Worlds of Immateriality Session. Theoretical Archaeology Group, Brown University, Providence (Rhode Island, USA).

 

Gloux, S. and A. Gonciar. “Applying DNA to Bioarchaeology Studies, A Case Study: the Noua Culture (Romania)”. DNA Studies and Historical Archaeology Session. Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology Conference, Université Laval, Quebec (Quebec, Canada).

 

Gonciar, A. “Excavating the Invisible: Recognizing Emotion in the Archaeological Record”. Institute of European and Mediterranean Archaeology Lecture, Buffalo (New York, USA).

 

Gonciar, A., and A. Georgescu. “Death and Ritual in the Noua Culture: a New Discovery in Valea Viilor, Sibiu, Romania”. The Seventh International Symposium of Funeral Archaeology, University Lucian Blaga, Sibiu (Romania).

 

Gonciar, A. “Genèse d’une identité politique dans le royaume des Asturies: création d’une mythologie nationale”. Journée d’études médiévales, Université d’Ottawa (Ontario, Canada).

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Conference Poster Presentations:

 

Reck, S.I., J.L. Marrero-Rosado, R.E. Mitchell, M.J. Champney, J.E. Young, M. Barreiro Sanchez, A. Gonciar, Zs. Nyárádi, and F. West. Preliminary Analysis of the Commingled Ossuary at Brădești( Fenyéd), Harghita County, Transylvania, Romania. The 87th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Los Angeles (California, USA).

 

Zejdlik, K., J.D. Bethard, Zs. Nyaradi, and A. Gonciar. “Atypical, Asymmetrical Dental Wear on a Medieval Transylvanian Male”. Poster Session: Dental Anthropology: Methods and Applications, the 87th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Los Angeles (California, USA).

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Clemmons, C.M.J, J.D. Bethard, A. Gonciar, and Zs. Nyaradi. “Pars Basilaris Porosity in Non-Adults from 17th century Transylvania”. The 46th Annual North American Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Cleveland (Ohio, USA).

 

Hochgraf-Cameron, I., A. McCoskey, J. Grossman, J.D. Bethard, K. Zejdlik, Zs. Nyaradi, and A. Gonciar. “Mortality of Twins in the Archaeological Record”. The 46th Annual North American Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Cleveland (Ohio, USA).

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Verostick, K.A., K.M. Padula, D.N. Williams, Zs. Nyaradi, A. Gonciar, and J.D. Bethard. “A Bioarchaeology of Care Case Study: Possible Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis from 14th-15th Century Transylvania”. The 87th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Cleveland (Ohio, USA).

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Zejdlik, K., J.D. Bethard, Zs. Nyaradi, and A. Gonciar. “Burial Patterns within the Walls of a Medieval Transylvanian Székely Church”. The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque (New Mexico, USA).

 

Voas, M., K. Killgrove, J.D. Bethard, R. Tykot, A. Gonciar, and Zs. Nyaradi. “Milk and Honey: Isotopic Reconstruction of Infant Weaning in Medieval Transylvania”. The 87th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Austin (Texas, USA).

 

Zejdlik, K., J.D. Bethard, Zs. Nyaradi, and A. Gonciar. “The Medieval Mouth: Interpreting Oral Health in European Populations”. The 87th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Austin (Texas, USA).

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Griffith, M.K., J. Filipeli, A. Gonciar, Zs. Nyaradi, and J. Bethard. “A Transylvanian Case Study in Non-Specific Stress: Marefalva, Sir-11”. Poster Session: Committee on Diversity Undergraduate Research Symposium. The 86th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, New Orleans (Louisiana, USA).

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Peschel, E.M., E.D. Tyler, J.D. Bethard, Zs. Nyaradi, A. Gonciar, M.A. Katzenberg, and S.H. Ambrose. “Reconstructing Székely Subsistence: Stable Isotope Evidence for Medieval Diet in Eastern Transylvania”. The 86th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, New Orleans (Louisiana, USA).

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Zejdlik, K., Zs. Nyaradi, R. Sandquist, and A. Gonciar. "Bio-cultural Analysis of an Early 18th Century Noble Family in Transylvania, Romania". Poster Session: Human Skeletal Biology: Population History and Beyond. The 86th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, New Orleans (Louisiana, USA).

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Bailey, S.L., S.M. Kondor, J.D. Bethard, Zs. Nyaradi, and A. Gonciar. “A Probable Case of Rheumatoid Arthritis from Medieval Transylvania”. The 85th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Atlanta (Georgia, USA).

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Osterholtz, A., J.D. Bethard, A. Gonciar, and Zs. Nyaradi. “Possible Prenatal and Perinatal Scurvy at Telekfalva, Romania”. 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Calgary (Alberta, Canada).

 

Stuck, J., S. Wallace, J.D. Bethard, A. Gonciar, and Zs. Nyaradi. “The Mysterious Elder: A Bioarchaeological analysis of Burial 61 at Telekfalva, Harghita Romania”. The 41st Annual North American Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Calgary (Alberta, Canada).

 

Gloux, S., and A. Gonciar. "Late Bronze Age Fragmented Human Remains: Applied Methodology". National Symposium of Archaeometry, Bucharest (Romania).

 

Gloux, S., and A. Gonciar. Integrating DNA Analyses to Bioarchaeology and Physical Anthropology Studies. The Potential Benefits in Approaching Unknown Populations: the Noua Culture (Romania). Bioarchaeology Posters, Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology, Simon Frasier University, Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada).

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