More than 20 years ago, Wood et al.(Curr Anthropol 33: 343–370, 1992) published “The
Osteological Paradox: Problems of Inferring Prehistoric Health from Skeletal Samples,” in …

Enamel Hypoplasia (EH) is known to be a useful indicator for wide range of detrimental
factors in early childhood in past populations, such as nutritional disturbances, mechanical …

Objectives We present a new distance‐based exponential regression approach based on
published histological data to refine the objectivity, accuracy, and precision of age estimates …

Linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) has been utilised in human bioarchaeology as an indicator
of growth disturbance during childhood. However, only a few studies have compared …

Three individuals dating to the Great Migration Period (5th century CE) were discovered in a
pit at the Hermanov vinograd site in Osijek, Croatia. We were inspired to study these …

Objectives The aim of this paper is to assess linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) on canines of
adults from early modern Wroclaw cemeteries to compare δ 13 C and δ 18 O values in …

Subadult growth and health have been analyzed in three cemetery samples from medieval
Poland, including two early-urban sites: Cedynia dated to the 10t–14th centuries AD, and …

In the 1980s, David Barker and colleagues assembled data for England showing that the
risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, or experiencing pre-cardiovascular diseases (eg …

Adults and subadults recovered from the Late Woodland period (∼ AD 800–1100)
Schroeder Mounds site (11HE177) from west-central Illinois who preserve permanent …

With the aim to reconstruct child health in five early medieval (5th–12th c. CE) Irish sites, an
osteoarchaeological study of three biological stress indicators–cribra orbitalia, linear enamel …