The estimation of biological sex is of paramount significance for the identification of
anonymous skeletal remains in contemporary medico-legal contexts or bioarcheological …

Accurate identification of the biological sex of ancient remains is vital for critically testing
hypotheses about social structure in prehistoric societies. However, morphological methods …

The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the analysis of human
skeletal remains from archaeological sites, introducing students to the anatomy of bones …

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the methods and issues in the current
practice of forensic anthropology. It introduces students to all the major topics in the field …

The assignment of biological sex to archaeological human skeletons is a fundamental
requirement for the reconstruction of the human past. It is conventionally and routinely …

In this latest volume in the Human Evolution Series, Erik Trinkaus and his co-authors
synthesize the research and findings concerning the human remains found at the Sunghir …

Objectives This study tests, for the first time, the applicability of a new method of sex
estimation utilizing enamel peptides on a sample of deciduous and permanent teeth at …

This review contributes to the long-running debate over the identities of the occupants of the
unspoiled 4th-century BCE Royal Tombs at Vergina, in northern Greece. The human …

Few things are as interesting to us as our own bodies and, by extension, our own identities.
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the relationship between the body …

Do we need an archaeology of mothering? For prehistoric periods, I would argue, we need
to challenge notions of parenting and child care that may subconsciously shape …