1Beginning in the late 1980s, researchers in various fields, especially history, economics,
and physical anthropology, discovered a mutual interest in health and its spatial and …

The population explosion that followed the Neolithic revolution was initially explained by
improved health experiences for agriculturalists. However, empirical studies of societies …

Urbanization is one of the most important settlement shifts in human history and has been
the focus of research within bioarchaeology for decades. However, there have been limited …

Abstract Background: Late medieval England underwent intensive urbanisation, particularly
in its largest city: London. Urban dwellers were exposed to factors such as high population …

Traditional methods of aging adult skeletons suffer from the problem of age mimicry of the
reference collection, as described by Bocquet‐Appel and Masset (1982). Transition analysis …

This paper attempts to contribute to the ongoing debate on the historical roots of the high
economic inequality of contemporary Iberian America. Our approach, which is basically …

A reunião de dados originais e de revisões da literatura, numa abordagem multidisciplinar
praticamente inédita na arqueologia brasileira, forneceu subsídios para um melhor …

Problems in estimating individual height based on the length of long bones have been
studied since the late 19th century, and the results have been applied to Mesoamerican …

Measuring Up traces the high levels of poverty and inequality that Mexico faced in the mid-
twentieth century. Using newly developed multidisciplinary techniques, the book provides a …

This paper offers new quantitative evidence on living standards in Bourbon America through
a pioneering study of both wages and heights. Wages were not low, nor were heights short …