Abstract The publication of The Osteological Paradox (Wood et al., 1992, Current
Anthropology, 33: 343–370) a decade ago sparked debate about the methods and …

The nature of tooth enamel is of inherent interest to dental professionals. The current‐day
clinical practice of dentistry involves the prevention of enamel demineralization, the …

The prevailing view regarding the evolution of medicine is that the emergence of settled
agricultural societies around 10,000 years ago (the Neolithic Revolution) gave rise to a host …

Archaeological discoveries of teeth provide remarkable information on humans, animals and
the health, hygiene and diet of ancient communities. In this fully revised and updated 2005 …

This book is entirely devoted to the study of children's skeletons from archaeological and
forensic contexts. It provides an extensive review of the osteological methods and theoretical …

Most of what we know about the timing of human enamel formation comes from radiographic
studies on children of known age. Here, we present new longitudinal data derived from a …

The ability to recognize individuals is essential to many aspects of social behaviour, such as
the maintenance of stable social groups, parent–offspring or mate recognition, inbreeding …

Skeletons represent the most direct evidence of the biology of past populations, and their
study provides insight into health and well-being, dietary history, lifestyle (activity), violence …

A modern human-like sequence of dental development, as a proxy for the pace of life
history, is regarded as one of the diagnostic hallmarks of our own genus Homo,,. Brain size …

Humans have an unusual life history, with an early weaning age, long childhood, late first
reproduction, short interbirth intervals, and long lifespan. In contrast, great apes wean later …