An accurate reconstruction of habitual activities in past populations and extinct hominin
species is a paramount goal of paleoanthropological research, as it can elucidate the …

The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the analysis of human
skeletal remains from archaeological sites, introducing students to the anatomy of bones …

The origins of horseback riding remain elusive. Scientific studies show that horses were kept
for their milk~ 3500 to 3000 BCE, widely accepted as indicating domestication. However …

In this latest volume in the Human Evolution Series, Erik Trinkaus and his co-authors
synthesize the research and findings concerning the human remains found at the Sunghir …

Akin to approaches encouraged by Verano (1997) in the Andes, and Ortner (2011, 2012) for
general paleopathological studies, this article focuses on accurate descriptions and …

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 …

This article presents a consensus terminology for entheseal changes that was developed in
English by an international team of scholars and then translated into French, Italian …

The lack of bone morphological markers associated with the human control of wild animals
has prevented the documentation of incipient animal domestication in archaeology. Here …

The first objective of this study is to reconstruct levels and types of physical activity and
associated sexual and social differences using human skeletal remains from the …

Entheseal changes have been widely used in anthropology to study activity patterns, but
there is an increasing awareness that ageing is associated with these changes. The aim of …