Isabel Maggiano, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer of Anthropology & Assistant Director BAFAL Laboratory
School of Social Sciences College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

678-839-6450
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Miller Hall - Room 1219
Office Hours
By appointment

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Isabel Maggiano, Ph.D.
Biography

Dr. Isabel Maggiano is a Biological Anthropologist with research interests in skeletal biology, bioarchaeology, bone microscopy, biomechanics, and bone imaging. Originally from Germany, she received her Masters from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany and her PhD from the University Hildesheim, Germany. Her work includes bioarchaeological interpretations of occupational activity patterns from Classic Maya populations. More recent interests include the identification of human bone tissues, growth patterns and three-dimensional reconstructions of human cortical bone.

Education / Degrees
  • B.S., Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, 2003
  • PhD, University Hildesheim, Germany, 2007
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Publication List

Maggiano CM, Maggiano IM (2022) Histomorphology of Un-Decalcified Bone in Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology. In: Tiesler V (Ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology. Routledge [View Publication External Resource]

Maggiano IM, Maggiano CM, Cooper DML (2021) Osteon circularity and longitudinal morphology: Quantitative and qualitative three-dimensional perspectives on human Haversian systems. Micron 140: 102955 [View Publication External Resource]

Suzuki S, Maggiano IS (2018) Histological age assessment in a prehispanic Maya sample from Xcambó, Yucatan, Mexico: Benefits and limitations. Journal of Archaeological Sciences: Reports 22: 214-222 [View Publication External Resource]

Maggiano IS, Maggiano CM, Clement JC, Thomas CDL, Carter Y and Cooper DML (2016) Three-dimensional reconstruction of Haversian systems in human cortical bone using synchrotron radiation-based micro-CT: morphology and quantification of branching and transve [View Publication (PDF)]

Maggiano CM, Maggiano IS, Tiesler V, Chi‐Keb J, Stout SD (2016) Methods and theory in bone modeling drift: comparing spatial analyses of primary bone distributions in the human humerus. Journal of Anatomy 228(1): 190–202. [View Publication External Resource]

Maggiano IS, Maggiano CM, Tiesler VG, Chi-Keb JR, Stout SD. (2015) Drifting Diaphyses: Asymmetry in Diametric Growth and Adaptation Along the Humeral and Femoral Length. The Anatomical Record 298:1689–1699. [View Publication (PDF)]

Maggiano IS. (2012) Analisis microscopico de la variacion en el desplazamiento (drift) por modelacion osea: una comparacion de las poblaciones yucatecas antiguas y modernas. In: Tiesler V: Métodos y aplicaciones de histomorfología en hueso descalcificad

Maggiano I, Maggiano C, Tiesler V, Kierdorf H, Stout S, Schultz M. (2011) A distinct region of microarchitectural variation in femoral compact bone: Histomorphology of the endosteal lamellar pocket. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 21:743-50 [View Publication External Resource]

Maggiano IS, Schultz M, Kierdorf H, Sierra Sosa T, Maggiano CM, Tiesler V (2008) Cross‐sectional analysis of long bones, occupational activities and long‐distance trade of the Classic Maya from Xcambó — Archaeological and osteological evidence. Amer [View Publication External Resource]

Wanner (Maggiano) IS, Sierra Sosa T, Alt KW, Tiesler V (2007) Lifestyle, Occupation, and Whole Bone Morphology of the Pre-Hispanic Maya Coastal Population from Xcambo, Yucatan, Mexico. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 17: 253–268 [View Publication External Resource]