Published: 2025-07-01
Research Articles
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...
Intrapopulation Variation in St. Peter’s Medieval (Tenth-Sixteenth Centuries) Cemetery (Osor, Croatia)
A Multivariable Analysis of Diet, Nonspecific Stress, and Mortality
Abstract
This study investigates intrapopulation variation within the medieval cemetery from Osor, Croatia (900–1500s A.D.), by examining diet,...
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...
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...
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.)....
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...
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.,...
Review Article
Forensic Biohistory
Spectacular Subjects, Contested Bodies
Abstract
Bodies of the famous dead have interested the public and academics for more than 200 years. Most contributions focus on positive...