▪ Abstract The study of complex adaptive systems, a subset of nonlinear dynamical systems,
has recently become a major focus of interdisciplinary research in the social and natural …

The past two decades have seen a proliferation in bioarchaeological literature on the
identification of scurvy, a disease caused by chronic vitamin C deficiency, in ancient human …

The Bioarchaeology of Metabolic Bone Disease, Second Edition is a comprehensive source
dedicated to better understanding this group of conditions that have significant …

This article presents outcomes from a Workshop entitled “Bioarchaeology: Taking Stock and
Moving Forward,” which was held at Arizona State University (ASU) on March 6–8, 2020 …

Aims and objectives The transition to an agricultural economy is often presumed to involve
an increase in female fertility related to changes in weaning practice. In particular, the …

Objectives Identifying scurvy and rickets has important implications for understanding
adaptations and variability among past communities, and bioarchaeologists now regularly …

The 1st millennium BCE in Italy was a time of agricultural intensification of staple cereal
production which shaped sociocultural, political, and economic spheres of pre-Roman …

Objective Scurvy in non‐adults was assessed at the Pre‐Neolithic site of Con Co Ngua and
the Neolithic site of Man Bac in northern Vietnam to investigate nutritional stress during the …

There has been a recent surge of interest in modelling the social implications of care
provision for people with serious disabilities in the bioarchaeological and …

For more than two centuries, lack of sunlight has been understood to cause vitamin D
deficiency and documented as a primary cause of rickets. As such, evidence of rickets in the …