The medieval period in Europe was a time of unprecedented social complexity that affected
human diet. The diets of certain subgroups—for example, children, women, and the poor …

In most modern populations, there are sex differentials in morbidity and mortality that favor
women. This study addresses whether such female advantages existed to any appreciable …

Food is well‐known to encode social and cultural values, for example different social groups
use different consumption patterns to act as social boundaries. When societies and cultures …

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 …

Abstract The Black Death of 1347–1351 was one of the most devastating epidemics in
human history, and though it is frequently assumed that the epidemic killed indiscriminately …

This collection employs a multi-disciplinary approach treating ancient childhood in a holistic
manner according to diachronic, regional and thematic perspectives. This multi-disciplinary …

This book brings together experts from around the world to explore how sanitation affected
our ancestors. By its end, readers will realise that toilets were in use in ancient Mesopotamia …

Dento‐alveolar pathologies: caries, ante mortem tooth loss, abscesses, calculus, alveolar
resorption and tooth wear were analysed in two composite skeletal series from Croatia's …

To test the historically documented hypothesis of a general increase in deliberate violence
in the eastern Adriatic from the antique (AN; 2nd–6th c.) through the early medieval (EM; 7th …

Skeletal evidence for health, nutritional status and malaria in Rome and the empire Skip to
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