Laurie A. Wilkie & Katherine M. Kinkopf. 2026. An introduction to crip archaeology. Gainesville: University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-7955-4 hardback $90.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

How did a Neolithic burial in Prague become a viral "gay caveman?"

One of the UK's biggest spills of plastic pellets (or “nurdles”) is flooding the North East’s coastline. It could harm wildlife in the North Sea for decades. Thousands of volunteers – including Friend...

A grave built inside an abandoned Roman latrine turns out to be one of the gentlest funerary arrangements archaeologists have found from the period.

Published in Childhood in the Past: An International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2026)

The problem of using male anatomy as the default in medicine is that it doesn’t always read across to female bodies.

The inequality, stigma and eugenic thinking that led to their acquisition is often obscured or erased.

Objectives In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many fetuses and infants were collected for anatomical study. Yet little research has explored their origins or the ethical implications of holding a...

How similar were Neanderthals to us, especially at the very beginning of life? Surprisingly, we’ve known very little about how Neanderthal babies grew before birth. That’s mainly because their rema…

Yes, most babies still wake during the night at 12 months. No, that doesn’t mean you’re doing anything wrong.

New research finds that baby slings offer important benefits, but better safety information could help prevent rare deaths and injuries.

New research using microscopic analysis of teeth has uncovered striking evidence of high physiological stress in children at the archaeological site of Hisban in Jordan (figure 1). The findings poi…

Women’s participation in science has risen sharply, but a Nature Index analysis finds that gender gaps in first and last authorship — markers of key scientific achievements — have barely shifted over ...

New research has uncovered a rare case of possible child abuse in ancient Mesopotamia, offering a poignant glimpse into the lived experiences of some of the region’s most vulnerable inhabitants. Th…

A groundbreaking overview of how disability studies can enrich interpretations of the past and make the profession of archaeology more inclusive and accessib...

Objectives Carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotope analysis illuminates diet and physiology in the past, yet interpretation is complicated by development and tissue-specific collagen formation. Th...

This revised fourth edition of The Archaeology of Disease focuses on reconstructing the origin, evolution, and history of disease as seen mainly through human skeletons from archaeological sites. In.....

This is an open access book. This volume is the first dedicated to action within bioarchaeology that can bring about social and political change.

Today’s human remains trade is a global phenomenon operating primarily online across numerous platforms. Today, as in the colonial past, a significant portion of the private trade involves the r...

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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences - Juveniles remain a largely underexplored socio-biological category in Mesolithic mortuary research, despite their potential to shed light on social...

Objectives This study tests the accuracy of dental histology for perinatal age estimation using deciduous teeth from modern human infants of known age. We evaluate whether enamel and dentin incremen.....

Baby teeth, also known as milk teeth or deciduous teeth, start forming in the jaws of a baby in utero with the front teeth almost fully formed (apart from the roots) by the time of birth. Baby teet…

Mothers in Science recognizes that caregivers often are unable to join events due to caregiving responsibilities and substantial financial burdens involved, in order to organize additional care for de...

Mothers in Science recognizes that caregivers often are unable to join events due to caregiving responsibilities and substantial financial burdens involved, in order to organize additional care for de...

The discovery of the earliest clay ornaments in Southwest Asia (15,000 years ago) made by children and adults is reported.

For International Women’s Day, I wanted to reflect on some of my old and new writings on the intersection of motherhood and archaeology. Gendered and intersectional inequities shape access, s…

Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to why.

Estimating biological sex is an essential tool for studying past population dynamics and cultural behaviour. Typically, it is not performed in non-adults before the onset of puberty, limiting the know...

Despite historical records saying otherwise, Roman babies were mourned at death, research into unique plaster burials from York reveals.

In this analysis of biomolecular and archaeological data from a ninth-century BCE mass grave in the Carpathian Basin, Fibiger et al. find evidence for the targeted killing of mostly unrelated women an...

Almost every day between 1703 and 1730, Frederik Ruysch’s home at Bloemgracht 15, a narrow, four-story townhouse on a canal in Amsterdam’s Jordaan

New Zealand universities are slowly closing the pay gap, but men are still more likely to fill senior leadership roles in the highest pay brackets.

The struggle is “balancing their careers not just with motherhood, but with what comes before: relationships and planning for a family,” these postdocs write

We both struggled with the idea of juggling our families and field teams — but we found good reasons to keep pursuing our goals.

The struggle is “balancing their careers not just with motherhood, but with what comes before: relationships and planning for a family,” these postdocs write

I have been reflecting on the work that I have been doing, particularly within museum contexts. There has been a recent increase in interest in the study of the ethics of bioarchaeological practice…

Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...

This survey is on ethical perspectives of hstorical human skeletal anatomical collections in US institutions.