Lost or overused: legal, ethical and research imperatives for a centralised human-remains database in the UK

The Roman occupation of England (AD 43–410), characterised by urbanisation and militarisation, is generally understood to have had a negative impact on population health. Yet our understanding of associated socioeconomic changes is hindered by the comparatively limited analysis of inhumations from the preceding Iron Age. Deploying the DOHaD hypothesis, this study examines negative health markers in the skeletons of 274 adult females of childbearing age and 372 non-adults aged below 3.5 years from Iron Age and Roman contexts, revealing the long-lasting negative influence of urbanisation but with a more limited impact in rural communities implying continuation of cultural norms.

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…

Objectives This study provides insights into adolescent development during the early medieval period in Austria and offers a point of comparison of the timing of sexual maturation relative to the Im...

The world's oldest evidence for purposeful human mummification comes from Southeast Asia, where people smoke-dried their ancestors' corpses 10,000 years ago.

This workshop introduces early career scholars to the grant review process through mock review exercises with experienced panelists and representatives from Leakey and Wenner-Gren. Date and Time: Marc...

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This study presents a wide literature review of nonunion fractures in paleopathological contexts, including the description of a new case from Idanha-a-Velha (Castelo Branco, Portugal). Nonunion fact...

In the late 19th century, the legal status of the anatomical specimen was only slowly evolving into its modern form. Not yet regulated by legislation, specimens were subject to rampant commodificat...

This paper explores recent controversies concerning the disposal of embryonic and fetal remains in order to ask how such remains came to be classified as

Mothering and Archaeology brings to light new insights connecting mothering in the past and present by exploring all aspects of this important but frequently under-valued and thus neglected subject an...

Biological anthropologists frequently explore skeletal asymmetry, together with population health and disease. Given the conflicting findings in exist…

This project is an application of the One Paleopathology approach to the study of Q fever (C. burnetii infection), a disease which is underdiagnosed a…

The Late Bronze-Early Iron Age (LBA-EIA)urnfield of Tilburg-Udenhoutseweg yielded 229 cremation graves with various features.This large cemetery is a …

US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.