Health effects of European colonization: An investigation of skeletal remains from 19th to early 20th century migrant settlers in South Australia

Read more by Angela Gurr, Jaliya Kumaratilake, Alan Henry Brook, Stella Ioannou,F. Donald Pate, Maciej Henneberg. Published on Plos One. 06 April 2022

Isotopic reconstruction of short to absent breastfeeding in a 19th century rural Dutch community

Read more on Andrea L. Waters-Rist, Kees de Groot, Menno L. P. Hoogland Published on Plos One. 13 April 2022

The Bodies in the ‘Bog’: A Multi-Isotope Investigation of Individual Life-Histories at an Unusual 6th/7th AD Century Group Burial from a Roman Latrine at Cramond, Scotland

Read more by Orsolya Czére, John A. Lawson, Gundula Müldner, Jane Evans, Angela Boyle & Kate Britton. Published on Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 24 March 2022

Inferring lumbar lordosis in Neandertals and other hominins 

Read more by Scott A Williams, Iris Zeng, Glen J Paton, Christopher Yelverton, ChristiAna Dunham, Kelly R Ostrofsky, Saul Shukman, Monica V Avilez, Jennifer Eyre, Tisa Loewen, Thomas C Prang, Marc R Meyer. Published on PNAS Nexus. 02 March 2022

Life and death of a leprosy sufferer from the 8th-century-CE cemetery of Kiskundorozsma–Kettőshatár I (Duna-Tisza Interfluve, Hungary)—Biological and social consequences of having Hansen’s disease in a late Avar Age population from Hungary

Read more by Olga Spekker, Balázs Tihanyi, Luca Kis, Csaba Szalontai, Tivadar Vida, György Pálfi, Antónia Marcsik, Erika Molnár Published on Plos One. 18 February 2022

Permanent signatures of birth and nursing initiation are chemically recorded in teeth

Read more by Tanya M.Smith, ChristineAustin, Janaína N.Ávilaa, WendyDirkse, Daniel R.Greenfg, Ian S.Williams, ManishArorac Published on Journal of Archaeological Science. April 2022

Inferring lumbar lordosis in Neandertals and other hominins

Read more by Scott A Williams, Iris Zeng, Glen J Paton, Christopher Yelverton, ChristiAna Dunham, Kelly R Ostrofsky, Saul Shukman, Monica V Avilez, Jennifer Eyre, Tisa Loewen, Thomas C Prang, Marc R Meyer. Published on PNAS Nexus. 02 March 2022

Mummification in the Mesolithic: New Approaches to Old Photo Documentation Reveal Previously Unknown Mortuary Practices in the Sado Valley, Portugal

Read more by Rita Peyroteo-Stjerna, Liv Nilsson Stutz, Hayley Louise Mickleburgh and João Luís Cardoso. Published on Antiquity. 03 March 2022

Life and death of a leprosy sufferer from the 8th-century-CE cemetery of Kiskundorozsma–Kettőshatár I (Duna-Tisza Interfluve, Hungary)—Biological and social consequences of having Hansen’s disease in a late Avar Age population from Hungary

Read more by Olga Spekker, Balázs Tihanyi, Luca Kis, Csaba Szalontai, Tivadar Vida, György Pálfi, Antónia Marcsik, Erika Molnár. Published on Plos One 18 February 2022

The first otologic surgery in a skull from El Pendón site (Reinoso, Northern Spain)

Read more by Sonia Díaz-Navarro, Cristina Tejedor-Rodríguez, Héctor Arcusa-Magallón, Juan Francisco Pastor-Vázquez, Jaime Santos-Pérez, Israel Sánchez-Lite, Juan Francisco Gibaja-Bao, Rebeca García-González & Manuel Rojo-Guerra. Published on Scientific Reports. 15 February 2022

Employing radiography (X-rays) to localize lesions in human skeletal remains from past populations to allow accurate biopsy, using examples of cancer metastases

Read more by Piers D. Mitchell, Jenna M. Dittmar. Published on International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 04 January 2022

Looking for the most suitable method for the study of entheseal changes: Application to upper limb’s fibrocartilaginous entheses in a human medieval sample

Read more by Uxue Perez-Arzak, Sébastien Villotte, Alvaro Arrizabalaga, Gonzalo J. Trancho. Published on International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 03 January 2022

An invasive Haemophilus influenzae serotype b infection in an Anglo-Saxon plague victim

Read more by Meriam Guellil, Marcel Keller, Jenna M. Dittmar, Sarah A. Inskip, Craig Cessford, Anu Solnik, Toomas Kivisild, Mait Metspalu, John E. Robb & Christiana L. Scheib. Published on Genome Biology. 03 February 2022

Identifying biological affinities of Holocene northern Iberian populations through the inner structures of the upper first molars

Read more by Beatriz Gamarra, Marina Lozano, Antonietta Del Bove, M. Eulàlia Subirà, Manuel Edo, Concepció Castellana, Josep Maria Vergès, Juan Ignacio Morales et al. Published on Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 03 February 2022

Mid-7th century BC human parasite remains from Jerusalem

Read more by Dafna Langgut. Published on International Journal of Paleopathology. Volume 36, March 2022, Pages 1-6

The last meal of Tollund Man: new analyses of his gut content

Read more by Nina H. Nielsen, Peter Steen Henriksen, Morten Fischer Mortensen, Renée Enevold, Martin N. Mortensen, Carsten Scavenius and Jan J. Enghild. Published on Antiquity. 21 July 2021

Revealing lost secrets about Yingpan Man and the Silk Road

Read more by Tingting Wang, Benjamin T. Fuller, Hongen Jiang, Wenying Li, Dong Wei & Yaowu Hu. Published on Scientific Reports. 13 January 2022 

A novel route for identifying starch diagenetic products in the archaeological record

Read more by Thomas Oldenburg, Melisa Brown, Jamie Inwood, Jagoš Radović, Ryan Snowdon, Steve Larter, Julio Mercader. Published on Plos One. 18 November 2021

Genomic Analysis of 18th-Century Kazakh Individuals and Their Oral Microbiome

Read more by by Anna E. White, Toni de-Dios, Pablo Carrión, Gian Luca Bonora, Laia Llovera, Elisabetta Cilli, Esther Lizano et al. Published on Biology. 14 December 2021

Comparative Inhibition Study by Nanomaterial, Plant Extract and Chemical Microcide on the Screaming Mummy in Egyptian Museum Store

Read more by Sahar Ismael, Ali Omar and Manal Maher. Published on Heritage. 16 September 2021

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