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 …

The Bioarchaeology of Metabolic Bone Disease, Second Edition is a comprehensive source
dedicated to better understanding this group of conditions that have significant …

This book is based on the Thinking through the Body workshop held at the University of
Wales, Lampeter, in June 1998. We would like to thank the University of Wales, Lampeter …

This book, no 19 in the CBA Practical Handbook series, provides the very latest guidance on
all aspects of the recovery, handling and study of human remains. It begins by asking why …

Recent excavations at Driffield Terrace in York (Northern England) revealed an extremely
unusual Romano-British cemetery of probably all-male composition, more than half of the …

At present, there is no accepted standardised lexicon in English to describe burials and the
position of buried human remains. Terms have tended to vary with the investigator and rely …

How did Roman Britain end? This new study draws on fresh archaeological discoveries to
argue that the end of Roman Britain was not the product of either a violent cataclysm or an …

This chapter discusses the criteria for the recognition of different types of weapon-related
trauma and their limitations. Evidence for such injuries in the British archaeological record is …

Anthea has been undertaking contract work in human remains from archaeological sites for
the past 13 years, working for archaeological units nationwide on collections dating from the …

During the several thousand years of human occupation in the Nasca drainage on the south
coast of Peru, population movement into and out of the region impacted the formation and …