Epidemiological research since the 1980s has highlighted the consequences of early life
adversity, particularly during gestation and early infancy, for adult health (the “Barker …

Context: Adult age-at-death is presented in a number of different ways by anthropologists.
Ordinal categories predominate in osteoarchaeology, but do not reflect individual variation …

The Archaeology of Disease shows how the latest scientific and archaeological techniques
can be used to identify the common illnesses and injuries from which humans suffered in …

The first edition of Ancient Medicine was the most complete examination of the medicine of
the ancient world for a hundred years. The new edition includes the key discoveries made …

An examination of daily life in the Middle Ages which reveals the intimate relations between
age groups, between the living and the dead, and between people and things. An important …

This book is entirely devoted to the study of children's skeletons from archaeological and
forensic contexts. It provides an extensive review of the osteological methods and theoretical …

The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the analysis of human
skeletal remains from archaeological sites, introducing students to the anatomy of bones …

The major components of human diet both past and present may be estimated by measuring
the carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios (δ13C and δ15N) of the collagenous proteins in bone …

Bodies intrigue us. They promise windows into the past that other archaeological finds
cannot by bringing us literally face to face with history. Yet'the body'is also highly contested …

This volume kicks off a new book series, Bioarchaeology and Social Theory, in a grand and
illustrative manner. The series highlights the application of social theories in interpreting …