Published: 2025-07-01
Research Articles
Non-Adult Morbidity and Mortality at Tell Abraq, United Arab Emirates (2197–2036 cal. B.C.)
AbstractA large number of commingled non-adult human remains were recovered from a Bronze Age tomb (2197–2036 cal. B.C.) at the site of Tell Abraq in...
Three Stories and a Funeral
Multiple Narrative Fictions Exploring DisAbility Osteobiography in Roman Dorset
Abstract
Paleopathological study uses complex terminology, including medical jargon, to describe and understand a disease process and/or diseased...
Spine Hyperkyphosis with Extensive Ankylosis in Seventeenth-Century Lucca (Italy) Disability in a Time of Crisis
AbstractArchaeological excavations in the city of Lucca (Tuscany, central Italy) brought to light a cemetery of 91 burials for people of low social...
Spatial Organization and Cemetery Structure at Phaleron
AbstractThis article uses human craniodental data to evaluate the spatial structure of the Archaic period site of Phaleron in Attica. The site was a...
Comparing In Situ and Laboratory Osteological Observations
AbstractAmong the more than 2,000 interments from the Phaleron Burial Ground, 79 individuals buried in the Esplanada mass graves are said to have died...
Making Space for Disability Expertise in Bioarchaeology
Revisiting the Case of the Shanidar 1 Neanderthal
Abstract
Among disabled anthropologists, Shanidar 1 is frequently evoked as a disabled ancestor—part of an expansive community of past people who were...
Misfortunes of a Miner
Provision of Care on the Nineteenth-Century Otago Goldfields
Abstract
Payable gold was discovered in New Zealand’s South Island in 1861, bringing tens of thousands of people to the Otago Province. Most were men...
Reconstructing Multiple Injuries through Osteobiography
A Case Study from Italy
Abstract
This investigation aims to underscore the value of an osteobiographical approach that focuses on understanding the interactions between status,...
Detailed Recovery Methods Show the Complexity of Ancient Mortuary Practices in Later Stone Age Hunter-Gatherers of Southern-Central Africa
AbstractThis article examines mortuary practices by terminal Pleistocene and Holocene hunter-gatherers from Malawi and eastern Zambia in...
Funerary Veneration of Violated People in the Context of Costly Signaling
AbstractDuring the Middle and Late Archaic periods in Indiana, occasional violent interactions led to people being killed and their heads and/or...
The Biomechanics of a Physically Impaired Individual from Early Medieval Ranelagh, Ireland
AbstractThis research describes the methods used to re-create the biomechanics of a physically impaired middle-aged male, SK67, dated 893–1023 C.E.,...
Ancient Burials at Upward Sun River, Central Alaska
AbstractIn the late summer about 11,500 years ago, probably in the space of a few weeks, three young Paleoindian children died and were buried in a...
Bones at Home
Supporting Haptic Learning and Universal Design beyond the Biological Anthropology Laboratory
Abstract
Remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic led to a range of pedagogical challenges for anthropology laboratory courses. In biological...
Mortuary Practices and the Importance of Rock-Shelters during the Early and Middle Holocene in the Southern Maya Mountains
AbstractResearch at two rock-shelters in the Maya Mountains of southern Belize, Mayahak Cab Pek and Saki Tzul, documents their persistent use as...