Human skeletal research aimed at reconstructing past activities has had a long and
checkered history. In recent years, in fact, it has been embraced as a kind of “Holy Grail” by …

ABSTRACT A working group was established in 2009 during a workshop in Coimbra,
Portugal to review the various methodologies used to record entheseal changes (EC) and …

The present article is an attempt to clarify the taxonomy and domestic status of equids in the
southernmost Levant during the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age within the wider …

This study provides the most comprehensive archaeological survey of deliberate donkey
burials in the ancient Near East. It comprises the updated results from a chapter of my …

The reconstruction of patterns of physical activities, behaviour, and lifestyle in past
populations is one of the goals most often pursued by bioarchaeologists. This study …

ŚWIAToWIT• X (LI)/A• 2012 by acid-producing bacteria feeding on sugars included in human
diet. Also periodontal disease, ie infections of alveolar process, was frequent in pre-Modern …

Durham E-Theses Page 1 Durham E-Theses Musculo-Skeletal Stress Markers in
Bioarchaeology: Indicators of Activity Levels or Human Variation? A re-analysis and …

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 …

Burial mounds piled high with enemy corpses are well known in Mesopotamian inscriptions
as symbols of victory, but no archaeological examples have so far been recovered …

The analysis of the large sample of domestic animal bones excavated from Tell Nebi Mend
in north-west Syria shows that there was remarkably little change in patterns of husbandry …