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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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2023)

Published: 2023-03-02

Structural Violence and Physical Death at Tlatelolco

Selecting the Chronically Malnourished for Sacrifice at a Late Postclassic Mesoamerican City (1300–1521 CE)

Kelly E. Blevins, Madeline McGrane, Josefina Mansilla Lory, Salvador Guilliem Arroyo, Jane E. Buikstra

1–31

Abstract

Human sacrifice in Mesoamerican cities was diverse and highly ritualized, and it remains incompletely understood. Knowing who was selected for...

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Eating Inka

Diet at Patallaqta, Peru

Bethany L. Turner

32–51

Abstract

The Inka Empire (1400–1532 A.D.) has been intensively studied by ethnohistorians and archaeologists, but there is comparatively little published...

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Living with Chronic Impairment

Tracing Care Using Changes in the Skeleton

Alyson C. Caine, Christina M. Torres

52–66

Abstract

Impairment to the skeleton provides tangible traces that bioarchaeologists can study to understand disease and disability in the past. However,...

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Growing Up at Villamagna

Sex, Gender, and Stress During Growth and Development in a Medieval Italian Community

Trent M. Trombley, Patrick D. Beauchesne, Sabrina C. Agarwal, Katherine M. Kinkopf, Caroline Goodson, Francesca Candilio, Alfredo Coppa, Mauro Rubini

67–93

Abstract

This study examines the interplay between sex, gender, and child-rearing using multiple markers of skeletal growth
and health in the...

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A Test of Dental Ablation Scoring Criteria

Kenneth G. Tremblay, Scott E. Burnett

94–102

Abstract

Intentionally modified teeth provide a durable record of past identities, but their identification in archaeological samples has been...

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