More than 20 years ago, Wood et al.(Curr Anthropol 33: 343–370, 1992) published “The
Osteological Paradox: Problems of Inferring Prehistoric Health from Skeletal Samples,” in …

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 …

As a discipline that bridges the biological and social sciences, bioarchaeology has much to
contribute to a contextualized and theoretically sophisticated understanding of social …

Quantitative craniometrical traits have been successfully incorporated into population
genetic methods to provide insight into human population structure. However, little is known …

The Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, Turkey (7400–5600 cal BC) is widely acknowledged for its
role in the study of early farming communities. To better understand the social and …

Over the past half century, the biocultural approach has emerged as an integrative
intellectual force in biological anthropology (Goodman and Leatherman 1998; Goodman et …

Although biological relationships are a universal reality for all human beings, the concepts of
“family” and “family bond” depend on both the geographic region and the historical moment …

Growing interest in bioarchaeology and its ability to address complex questions tied to social
and biological identities in the past has led to the development of nuanced methods for …

Objectives Crown and root traits, like those in the Arizona State University Dental
Anthropology System (ASUDAS), are seemingly useful as genetic proxies. However, recent …

Twenty-four palaeogenomes from Mokrin, a major Early Bronze Age necropolis in
southeastern Europe, were sequenced to analyse kinship between individuals and to better …