The bioarchaeological record has an abundance of scientific evidence based on skeletal
indicators of trauma to argue for a long history of internal and external group conflict …

Theory and Practice in the Bioarchaeology of Care (2015) published in this same series,
Bioarchaeology and Social Theory. The one-two punch of these volumes cements the future …

Archaeologists have made great strides in understanding prehistoric migration, yet they
have tended to focus on only part of the continuum of human movement. In nonstate …

In Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World archaeologist Catherine M. Cameron
provides an eye-opening comparative study of the profound impact that captives of warfare …

Research on the emergence of institutionalized inequality has traditionally maintained an
analytical divide between lived institutions that affect daily life and performed institutions …

Objectives Due to the indelible nature of enamel, bioarchaeologists use linear enamel
hypoplasia (LEH) to detect early investments in surviving stress and have identified an …

Ancient human remains can be analyzed with an eye toward clarifying the limits of human
adaptation to many of life's hardships. Data collected from the remnants of skeletonized …

Bioarchaeology of Marginalized People amplifies the voices of marginalized or powerless
individuals. Following previous work done by physical anthropologists on the biology of …

Discussions of polydactyly in the US Southwest describe rock art and skeletal material
confirming the presence of six-toed individuals at a variety of sites and in a variety of time …

Objectives In this article, we present analyses of traumatic injury data from the Middle Period
Coyo Oriental cemetery in northern Chile. We test a series of hypotheses about the role of …