This study investigates whether variants in dental morphology and nuclear DNA provide
similar patterns of intergroup affinity among regional populations using biological distance …

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 …

In anthropological models of social organization, kinship is perceived to be fundamental to
social structure. This project aimed to understand how individuals buried in neighborhoods …

Biodistance studies have a long presence in Eastern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern
(EMME) bioarchaeology. In line with trends seen in North America and elsewhere, such …

The site of Pella, located in the foothills of the east Jordan valley, was a prosperous city–
state throughout the Middle Bronze Age (MBA, ca. 2000–1500 BCE). As part of a …

Strontium stable isotope values (87Sr/86Sr) have been measured in tooth enamel samples
representing 11 Bronze Age individuals buried at Tell Ashara–Terqa, a major …

Dental morphology analyzes a set of widely studied traits which variation was mostly
determined by genetic diversity. This variation, expressed in character frequencies for each …

The urbanization of Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium BCE led to unprecedented social,
economic, and political changes. Tell Brak, located in the Syrian Khabur basin, is one of the …

Objectives Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios (δ13C and δ15N) were used to
reconstruct the history of subsistence strategies in the middle Euphrates valley, NE Syria, in …

The aim of the study is the assessment of biological distance between populations from
Transcaucasia on the basis of the frequency of dental morphological traits. It is well known …