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

In 2009, Walker and colleagues questioned the validity of the iron‐deficiency anemia
hypothesis as an explanatory mechanism for the presence of porotic hyperostosis (PH) and …

As a successful technique for identifying residential mobility in other areas, this study
investigates the feasibility of using 87Sr/86Sr analysis to track the movements of the ancient …

Day-to-day activities are important in the development of social identities, the establishment
of social standing, and the communal understanding of societal rules. This perspective is …

As circumstances of conquest change, leaders of empires must adapt their colonial
strategies in order to be successful. One example of such modification in approach is the …

Bioarchaeologists researching historic period populations recognize that textual sources
provide abundant information on ancient political, social, and economic contexts of the …

Bioarchaeologists use skeletal health indicators to measure how ancient populations
adapted to their physical, cultural and biological environments. Skeletons of infants and …

This study examines the feasibility of using oxygen isotope analysis of tooth carbonate to
identify immigrants from the New Kingdom site of Tombos in Nubia (n= 30). In comparison …

Cribra orbitalia and enamel hypoplasia were examined in an early medieval (8th to
beginning of 12th century AD) skeletal sample of 451 individuals from Borovce, Slovakia …

This study reconstructs systemic stress patterning using incremental microstructures of
enamel in a subadult from the Yoshigo cemetery (3200 through 2800 BP), Aichi Prefecture …