Bioarchaeology International provides rigorous peer-reviewed publication of substantive articles in the growing field of bioarchaeology. This vibrant, interdisciplinary field of study cross-cuts biological anthropology, archaeology, and social theory to situate past peoples within their biological, cultural, and environmental circumstances. Bioarchaeology emphasizes not only the study of human remains but the integrative analysis and interpretation of their context, including the archaeological, socio-cultural and political milieu, and environmental setting. Bioarchaeologists use both state-of-the-art methodological innovation and theory to investigate a diversity of questions.
The goal of this journal is to publish research articles, brief reports, and invited commentary essays that are contextually and theoretically informed and explore the human condition and ways in which human remains and their funerary contexts can provide unique insight on variation, behavior and lifestyle of past people and communities. Submissions from around the globe using varying scales of analysis that focus on theoretical and methodological issues in the field are encouraged.
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Current Issue
Vol. 7 No. 4 (2023)
Published: 2024-03-05
Research Articles
Race, Population Affinity, and Mortality Risk during the Second Plague Pandemic in Fourteenth-Century London, England
307–327
AbstractWe investigate whether hazards of death from plague and physiological stress at a fourteenth-century plague cemetery (Royal Mint, London)...
Resilience and Climate Instability at the Beginning of the Middle Horizon (550–800 A.D.)
An Analysis of Violent Trauma in Huaca 20 (Peruvian Central Coast)
328–350
AbstractThis article presents a study of the relationship between violence and climate stress in the Lima culture, a pre-Hispanic society of the...
Heavenly Meals and Humble Hearts
Foodways in a Jesuit Context in Spanish Colonial New Granada and Early Republican Colombia
351–370
AbstractThis research explores how bone isotopic data (δ13C, δ15N), in combination with analyses of dental pathology, dental calculus,...
Commentaries
Reconciling Identity Narratives
Creating Collaborative Space with Isotopic Baselines
371–387
AbstractIsotopic methods have provided breakthrough insights into bioarchaeological identity studies, yet merit more critical theoretical perspectives....