Funerary taphonomy has come of age as an important field in osteoarchaeology. Its goal is
to reconstruct funerary practices by using taphonomic evidence, including both evidence …

Microbial alteration is an important pathway for bone degradation. Organisms involved in
bioerosion of bone, mainly bacteria, fungi and cyanobacteria, create different types of …

As a discipline that bridges the biological and social sciences, bioarchaeology has much to
contribute to a contextualized and theoretically sophisticated understanding of social …

The book is structured around four main themes corresponding to different scales of
sociality. First, there is the manner in which individuals, households, and communities …

Britain has been inhabited by humans for over half a million years, during which time there
were a great many changes in lifestyles and in the surrounding landscape. This book, now …

This paper presents a compilation of strontium and oxygen isotope data from human tooth
enamel that has been produced at NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory over the last c …

The appearance of farming, from its inception in the Near East around 12 000 years ago,
finally reached the northwestern extremes of Europe by the fourth millennium BC or shortly …

Strontium isotope analysis of tooth enamel is a useful provenancing technique to investigate
the childhood origins and residential mobility of ancient people. However, where different …

September 1985. Sifting through the fill of a square barrow burial, in a shallow chalk valley
near Garton Station, the digger's trowel hit something hard and metallic. Carefully easing …

This book, no 19 in the CBA Practical Handbook series, provides the very latest guidance on
all aspects of the recovery, handling and study of human remains. It begins by asking why …