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. 10 No. 2 (2026)

Published: 2026-09-29

Regional and Temporal Differences in Disease, Trauma, and Mortality in Iron Age Britain

Rebecca Redfern, Sharon DeWitte, Melanie Giles, Malin Holst, Derek Hamilton

87–113

Abstract

The British Iron Age (eighth to first centuries B.C.) is characterized by agrarian communities who were regionally diverse and highly...

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Biocultural Aspects of Physiological Stress During Classical Antiquity in Thebes, Central Mainland Greece

Anna Karligkioti, Vasileios Aravantinos, Alexandra Charami, Efthymia Nikita

114–133

Abstract

During the first millennium B.C.E., mainland Greece experienced notable economic and demographic growth, though this trajectory shifted from 300...

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Oral Health, Lifestyle, and Mortality in Pre-European Marquesas Islands

A Study of Hane Site Burials (Ua Huka)

Frederique Valentin, Baptiste Pradier, Anatauarii Tamarii

134–151

Abstract

This article presents a study of the relationship between oral health, lifestyle, mortality, and the deterioration of environmental conditions...

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The Legacy Skeletal Collections at Apollonia Pontica

What We Know and Where We Are Going

Katharine E. Kolpan, Krastina Panayotova

152–178

Abstract

As a field, bioarchaeology has recently reckoned with its responsibility to examine underutilized legacy skeletal collections. Employing the...

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