Published: 2025-07-01
Research Articles
Biocultural Aspects of Physiological Stress During Classical Antiquity in Thebes, Central Mainland Greece
AbstractDuring the first millennium B.C.E., mainland Greece experienced notable economic and demographic growth, though this trajectory shifted from 300...
Regional and Temporal Differences in Disease, Trauma, and Mortality in Iron Age Britain
AbstractThe British Iron Age (eighth to first centuries B.C.) is characterized by agrarian communities who were regionally diverse and highly...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Archaic Period Diet
Preliminary Isotope Results from the Phaleron Burial Ground, Attica, Greece
Abstract
The recently excavated Phaleron Burial Ground in Attica, Greece, documents the lived experiences of Archaic period individuals (700–480 B.C.)....
Injury and Community in Archaic Greece
An Extended Osteobiography from the Phaleron Burial Ground, Greece
Abstract
Few documentary sources survive for the Archaic Period (c. 700–480 B.C.) in Athens and the surrounding region, including the nearby...
Were There Double Cremations at the Phaleron Burial Ground in Greece?
AbstractThis article examines cremation deposits containing more than one individual from the Archaic archaeological...
Communities of Care at the Phaleron Burial Ground
Understanding Early Childhood Health Care in Archaic Attica
Abstract
This article extends a bioarchaeology of care model to care for infants and young children interred at the Phaleron Burial Ground in...
The Phaleron Burial Ground D-Group
Discovering Diversity
Abstract
During excavations of over 2,100 individuals at the Phaleron burial ground (PBG), archaeologists identified...
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,...
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.,...