The duality of the skeleton as both a biological and cultural entity has formed the theoretical
basis of bioarchaeology. In recent years bioarchaeological studies have stretched the early …

Many of the unresolved debates in palaeoanthropology regarding evolution of particular
locomotor or manipulative behaviours are founded in differing opinions about the functional …

The Bioarchaeology of Metabolic Bone Disease, Second Edition is a comprehensive source
dedicated to better understanding this group of conditions that have significant …

Biomechanics theory provides new ways to reconstruct behavior in past populations.
Application of biomechanical beam models to long bone diaphyses has proven to be a …

Increased sedentism during the Holocene has been proposed as a major cause of
decreased skeletal robusticity (bone strength relative to body size) in modern humans …

Over recent millennia, human populations have regularly reconstructed their subsistence
niches, changing both how they obtain food and the conditions in which they live. For …

The relative contributions of genetics and environment to temporal and geographic variation
in human height remain largely unknown. Ancient DNA has identified changes in genetic …

Osteoporosis is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in contemporary populations.
This common disease of aging results from a state of bone fragility that occurs with low bone …

Denisovans are an extinct group of humans whose morphology remains unknown. Here, we
present a method for reconstructing skeletal morphology using DNA methylation patterns …

The human lineage is marked by a transition in hand use, from locomotion towards
increasingly dexterous manipulation, concomitant with bipedalism. The forceful precision …