Agriculture has long been regarded as an improvement in the human condition: Once Homo
sapiens made the transition from foraging to farming in the Neolithic, health and nutrition …

Great apes, our closest living relatives, live longer and mature later than most other
mammals and modern humans are even later‐maturing and potentially longer‐lived …

Paleodemography and paleopathology presuppose that direct relationships exist between
statistics calculated from archaeological skeletal series (eg, skeletal lesion frequencies and …

Building on the success of their previous book, White and Folkens' The Human Bone
Manual is intended for use outside the laboratory and classroom, by professional forensic …

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 …

Post‐reproductive longevity is a robust feature of human life and not only a recent
phenomenon caused by improvements in sanitation, public health, and medical advances …

Despite recent, compelling challenge, the evolution of Homo erectusis still commonly
attributed to big game hunting and/or scavenging and family provisioning by men. Here we …

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 …

In almost all living creatures, in Primates as well as in seventeenth–eighteenth century
human populations, a high infant mortality is the rule; therefore, the scarcity of children's …

The past decade has produced considerable debate over the feasibility of
paleodemographic research, with much attention focusing on the question of reliability of …