As a discipline that bridges the biological and social sciences, bioarchaeology has much to
contribute to a contextualized and theoretically sophisticated understanding of social …

Childhood in Ancient Athens offers an in-depth study of children during the heyday of the
Athenian city state, thereby illuminating a significant social group largely ignored by most …

Over the past half century, the biocultural approach has emerged as an integrative
intellectual force in biological anthropology (Goodman and Leatherman 1998; Goodman et …

Growing interest in bioarchaeology and its ability to address complex questions tied to social
and biological identities in the past has led to the development of nuanced methods for …

In recent decades, there has been a dramatic increase in information from archaeological
skeletons about violent encounters that took place within and among societies, especially …

Archaeology of children is a relatively new field of research within archaeology. This article
gives an overview of the advancement of the subject and discusses theoretical and …

Age is a critical axis for the study of human remains. Methods for age estimation, alongside
those for the assessment of sex, are among the first suites of techniques learnt by …

A presentation of the main points of the seminal article 'A child is born'from 1989, in
particular with regard to the importance in the current trends and other issues not foreseen …

Located in the heel of the Italian boot, the Salento region was home to a diverse population
between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Inhabitants spoke Latin, Greek, and various …

Bronze Age Worlds brings a new way of thinking about kinship to the task of explaining the
formation of social life in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. Britain and Ireland's diverse …