The introduction of pathogens originating from Eurasia into the Americas during early
European contact has been associated with high mortality rates among Indigenous peoples …

Urbanization is one of the most important settlement shifts in human history and has been
the focus of research within bioarchaeology for decades. However, there have been limited …

This chapter provides a discussion of the way that dental disease is used in biological
anthropology and paleopathology. Various conditions are included dental caries, calculus …

The synthesis of biological anthropology, archaeology, and social theory provides a
bioarchaeological model to reconstruct nuanced aspects of demography, diet, disease …

Abstract The Early Bronze Age in the southern Levant is associated with the onset of
urbanization processes, expressed through the emergence of walled, densely populated …

Background Biodiversity loss, partly due to intensification of agriculture, has become a
global issue. In this context, fruit producers have been looking for nature-friendly production …

Abstract Objectives Across the Mediterranean and Near East, the transition from the Late
Bronze Age (ca. 1550–1200 BC) to the Early Iron Age (ca. 1200–900 BC) was accompanied …

The current paper presents one of the first bioarchaeological studies on dental disease and
dietary patterns in coastal Phoenicia during the Roman period, focusing on the dentition of …

Excavation is considered by many to be an inextricable part of bioarchaeology, generating
assemblages of human skeletons that bioarchaeologists rely on to reconstruct the past …

Systematic study of dental attributes yields insights regarding diet and subsistence that
cannot be gained from the archaeological record alone. This analysis documents occlusal …