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 …

As with most living organisms, human populations respond to climatic, environmental, and
population pressures by transforming their range and subsistence strategies over space and …

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 …

Explaining the factors that influence past dietary variation is critically important for
understanding changes in subsistence, health, and status in past societies; yet systematic …

The cooling and drying associated with the so-called '8.2 ka event'have long been
hypothesized as having sweeping implications for human societies in the Early Holocene …

The feathers of tropical birds were one of the most significant symbols of economic, social,
and sacred status in the pre-Columbian Americas. In the Andes, finely produced clothing …

The use of incremental carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis is gaining momentum as a
way of establishing infant feeding practices in the past. Here we examine the differences in …

Understanding the causes of subsistence economic adaptation remains a critical topic in
archaeology. Here we explore one potential causal phenomenon, climate change, to …

Management of camelids in the coastal valleys of the Andes has generated much debate in
recent years. Zooarchaeological and isotopic studies have demonstrated that in the coastal …

In this study, we examine the long-term trajectory of violence in societies that inhabited the
coast of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile using three lines of evidence: bioarchaeology …