Ph.D. Research Assistant, Center for Applied Isotope Studies Edgar’s research centers individual lifetimes and past communities as lenses through which to examine wider ecological and social contexts. Edgar attempts to understand aspects of the lived-experience of past individuals through an osteobiographical approach when considering the diets, physical activity and subsistence practices of individuals at snapshots in time. Edgar’s research is situated on the cusp of Spanish colonization near what would become Mexico City. Research Research Areas: Biological Anthropology Archaeology Research Interests: Bioarchaeology, human osteology, stable isotope analysis, dental non-metric biodistance analysis, Central Mexico, Colonial period, southern Basin of Mexico, Early Formative Mesoamerica, Neolithic transitions, subsistence change, structural adaptation of bone, cross-sectional geometry, pQCT, phytolith analysis, mortuary practice, ritual, Classic period censers Labs: Biological Anthropology Lab Complex Multiscalar Archaeologies Lab Selected Publications Selected Publications: 2022 Justin Cramb, Brandon T. Ritchison, Carla S. Hadden, Qian Zhang, Edgar Alarcón-Tinajero, Xianyan Chen, K. C. Jones, Travis Jones, Katharine Napora, Matthew Veres, Victor D. Thompson. The Changing Profile of Tenure-Track Faculty in Archaeology. Advances in Archaeological Practice, pp. 371 – 381. 2022 Edgar Alarcón Tinajero, Jorge A. Gómez-Valdés, Lourdes Márquez Morfín, and Laurie J. Reitsema. A comparative isotopic approach to early Colonial Indigenous diet – El Japón, Xochimilco, Mexico. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 177, 2-2. 2021 Edgar Alarcón Tinajero, and Jorge Gómez-Valdés. Physical Activity and Bone Remodeling: Agriculture in early Colonial San Gregorio Atlapulco. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 174, 2-2. 2019 Edgar Alarcón Tinajero, Christopher Morehart, and Angela C. Huster. Una clasificación preliminar de los adornos de incensarios epiclásicos a partir del sitio de Los Mogotes, Estado de México. In Proyecto de Ecología Histórica del Norte de la Cuenca de México: Informe de la Temporada de Campo 2018, edited by Christopher T. Morehart, pp. 216-232. The School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Tempe. 2019 Edgar Alarcón Tinajero and David S. Leigh. Preliminary Phytolith Results from Alluvial Arroyo Sediments at the “Cliff Site”, Mixteca Alta Highlands, Oaxaca, Mexico. Poster presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the Geological Society of America. 2019 Rudolf Cesaretti, Megan Parker, Edgar Alarcón Tinajero, Dean Blumenfeld, Antonio Lorenzini, and Christopher T. Morehart. [Excavations at] Operation 8. In Proyecto de Ecología Histórica del Norte de la Cuenca de México: Informe anual de la Temporada de Campo 2018, edited by Christopher T. Morehart, pp. 23-44. The School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Tempe. 2018 Christopher T. Morehart, Rudolf Cesaretti, Dean Blumenfeld, Edgar Alarcón, and Megan Parker. La Continuación de las Investigaciones en la Operación 5. In Proyecto de Ecología Histórica del Norte de la Cuenca de México: Informe de la Temporada de Campo 2017, edited by Christopher Morehart, pp. 10-35. The School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Tempe. Education Education: Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2022 B.A., University of Chicago, 2013
