Much of paleodemography, an interdisciplinary field with strong ties to archaeology, among
other disciplines, is oriented toward clarifying the life experiences of past people and why …

Uniformitarianism is a classical term of the geological sciences, coined in 1832 by Whewell
to indicate a specific part of Lyell's hypothesis. However, over the years uniformitarianism …

Accurate age estimations are essential to archaeological and forensic analyses. However,
reliability for adult skeletal age estimations is poor, especially for individuals over the age of …

Background: Multivariate ordinal categorical data have figured prominently in the age
estimation literature. Unfortunately, the osteological and dental age estimation literature is …

The use of cultigens and wild plants by pre-contact populations is well established in all
regions of the circum-Caribbean and Greater Antilles except for Cuba, the largest island in …

The burial treatment of infants in Roman Britain has received considerable attention from
archaeologists over the last two decades2. Large numbers of perinatal and infant remains …

The aim of this paper is to present a method to facilitate age‐at‐death estimation of older
individuals (generally those aged 50+ years) in a representative cemetery sample. The …

The old are rarely the focus of research in archaeology. Older skeletonized bodies are hard
to give a chronological age, and this seems to justify the lack of research focus. In this paper …

Neanderthals are Eurasian fossil hominins whose distinctive morphology developed in the
southwestern corner of Europe and later spread throughout the continent, reaching …

Abstract Changes in subsistence strategy have caused some of the profoundest changes to
the structure and health of humans. This study aims to test whether these changes have …