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. 9 No. 1 (2025)

Published: 2025-07-22

A Case of Severe Antemortem Trauma on an Adult Individual from the Hellenistic Period at Kaman-Kalehöyük

Cheryl P. Anderson, Sachihiro Omura

1–9

Abstract

The goal of the project is to investigate and interpret the extensive antemortem trauma observed on an adult (50+ years) male individual from...

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Osteobiographical Study of Tomás Carrasquilla

Timisay Monsalve, Jose Luis Pais-Brito, Jane Buikstra

10–26

Abstract

In this article, we evaluate the skeleton of the Colombian author Tomás Carrasquilla for signs of pathologies and physical traumas to better...

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Foreigner(?) in a Foreign Land

Multimethod Exploration of the First Decorative Dental Inlay Identified in a Pre-Hispanic Peruvian Context

Celeste Marie Gagnon, Bethany L. Turner, Branden Cesare Rizzuto, Scott E. Burnett

27–51

Abstract

This work documents the first unambiguous case of a pre-Hispanic Peruvian with dental inlays—an adult bearing two labially drilled maxillary...

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Cremation at the Royal Necropolis of Salamis New Bioarchaeological Insights

Natalie M. Branca, Kirsi O. Lorentz

52–70

Abstract

This article provides an analysis of cremated human remains from the Royal Necropolis of Salamis, enabling new insights about a little-known...

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