The study of human remains from the perspective of forensic taphonomy facilitates a holistic
understanding of ancient funerary behavior, and it is even more important when dealing with …

The study of ancient human dental calculus (mineralized dental plaque, also known as
tartar) is becoming increasingly important in osteoarchaeology, human palaeoecology and …

The performance of seven classification methods, binary logistic (BLR), probit (PR) and
cumulative probit (CPR) regression, linear (LDA) and quadratic (QDA) discriminant analysis …

Aging changes in the facial skeleton are concentrated mostly in orbits, maxilla and
mandible. The aim of this study was to analyze metric traits of the adult viscerocranium in a …

The mean measure of divergence is a dissimilarity measure between groups of individuals
described by dichotomous variables. It is well suited to datasets with many missing values …

Abstract Objective Skeletal populations from Byblos, Beirut, and Tyre were studied to assess
mechanical stress along the Roman Phoenician coast. Materials The sample included 153 …

Tobacco consumption affects human health, but no studies have investigated its effect on
the bone metabolome, or if any changes are traceable after long postmortem intervals …

Horse riding is a human activity that has particularly interested bioanthropologists and
paleopathologists working on the reconstruction of activities from skeletal changes in …

Metabolomics is a modern tool that aids in our understanding of the molecular changes in
organisms. Archaeological science is a branch of archaeology that explores different …

Objectives This study aims at proposing a visual method for sexing the human os coxae
based on a statistical approach, using a scoring system of traits described by Bruzek (2002) …