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. 1 (2026)

Published: 2026-07-15

Intrapopulation Variation in St. Peter’s Medieval (Tenth-Sixteenth Centuries) Cemetery (Osor, Croatia)

A Multivariable Analysis of Diet, Nonspecific Stress, and Mortality

Akacia Propst, Morana Čaušević-Bully, Mario Novak, Tracy Prowse

1–23

Abstract

This study investigates intrapopulation variation within the medieval cemetery from Osor, Croatia (900–1500s A.D.), by examining diet,...

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Infant Health in Early Medieval Iceland

Growth and Mortality at Hofstaðir, Keldudalur, Keflavík, and Stóra-Seyla

Maren Clara von Mallinckrodt, Joe Wallace Walser III

53–69

Abstract

Dental and skeletal elements of perinatal and infant individuals (<1 year) from four early Christian sites (tenth–thirteenth...

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Invasive Preservation Practices and Bioarchaeological Study in Two Blessed Nuns from Fourteenth-Century Central Italy

Agata Lunardini, Valentina Giuffra, Simona Minozzi

70–85

Abstract

This study examines two rare cases of artificial mummification of Augustinian cloistered nuns, Blessed Illuminata (†1320) and Blessed...

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Forensic Biohistory

Spectacular Subjects, Contested Bodies

William N. Duncan, Christopher M. Stojanowski

24–52

Abstract

Bodies of the famous dead have interested the public and academics for more than 200 years. Most contributions focus on positive...

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