Much of paleodemography, an interdisciplinary field with strong ties to archaeology, among
other disciplines, is oriented toward clarifying the life experiences of past people and why …

More than 20 years ago, Wood et al.(Curr Anthropol 33: 343–370, 1992) published “The
Osteological Paradox: Problems of Inferring Prehistoric Health from Skeletal Samples,” in …

Until relatively recently, fetuses, along with infants and children, were largely overlooked in
bioarchaeological research. Over the past twenty years, there has been increasing …

An examination of daily life in the Middle Ages which reveals the intimate relations between
age groups, between the living and the dead, and between people and things. An important …

The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the analysis of human
skeletal remains from archaeological sites, introducing students to the anatomy of bones …

Objectives: Studies of the carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios (δ13C and δ15N) of
modern tissues with a fast turnover, such as hair and fingernails, have established the …

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 psychological research, there are often assumptions about the conditions that children
expect to encounter during their development. These assumptions shape prevailing ideas …

Child death has played an important role in the evolution of humans. Of all stages of
development, and at all historical times beyond Modern history, childhood has been …

During the past decade there has been a dramatic increase in the study of children and
childhood in archaeology and anthropology, with the publication of many papers, books …