Bioarchaeology (osteoarchaeology, osteology or palaeo-osteology[1]) in Europe describes the study of biological remains from archaeological sites. In the United States it is the scientific study of human remains from archaeological sites.
The term was minted by British archaeologist Grahame Clark who, in 1972, defined it as the study of animal and human bones from archaeological sites. Jane Buikstra came up with the current US definition in 1977. Human remains can inform about health, lifestyle, diet, mortality and physique of the past.[2] Although Clark used it to describe just human remains and animal remains, increasingly archaeologists include botanical remains.[3]
Bioarchaeology was largely born from the practices of New Archaeology, which developed in the United States in the 1970s as a reaction to a mainly cultural-historical approach to understanding the past. Proponents of New Archaeology advocate testing hypotheses about the interaction between culture and biology, or a biocultural approach. Some archaeologists advocate a more holistic approach that incorporates critical theory.[4]
Bioarchaeology (osteoarchaeology, osteology or palaeo-osteology) in Europe describes the study of biological remains from archaeological sites. In the...
Medieval Bioarchaeology is the study of human remains recovered from medieval archaeological sites. Bioarchaeology aims to understand populations through...
Huldremose Woman, or Huldre Fen Woman, is a female bog body recovered in 1879 from a peat bog near Ramten, Jutland, Denmark. Analysis by Carbon 14 dating...
Canashito, also known as Canachito, Cornachiti or Carachito, is located inland on a limestone outcrop, near Hooiberg, in Santa Cruz, Aruba, measuring 63...
(in German). 36: 197–201. PMID 718611. Larsen, Clark Spencer (1999). Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge...
Kerma was the capital city of the Kerma culture, which was located in present-day Sudan at least 5,500 years ago[when?]. Kerma is one of the largest archaeological...
"Dolichocephaly". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2023-09-19. K. Killgrove (2005). Bioarchaeology in the Roman World (PDF) (thesis). UNC Chapel Hill. Archived from the...
Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-1263-2. Oxenham, Marc; Tayles, Nancy (2006). Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-82580-1...
ankylosing spondylitis. Entheses are widely recorded in the field of bioarchaeology where the presence of anomalies at these sites, called entheseal changes...
Sound". Ethical approaches to human remains: a global challenge in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology. Kirsty Squires, David Errickson, Nicholas...
Reconstructions of ancient population sizes and dynamics are based on bioarchaeology, ancient DNA, and inference from modern population genetics.[citation...
reserved a chapter on Age, and in the same year Mary Lewis published The Bioarchaeology of Children. A focus on child bodies corresponds to a focus on their...
of evolutionary theory to understanding human biology and behavior. Bioarchaeology is the study of past human cultures through examination of human remains...
been used to various ends in the subdisciplines of Zooarchaeology and Bioarchaeology. In zooarchaeology the main goal of osteometry is taxonomic determination...
biological anthropologist, author, and educator. His work focuses on bioarchaeology, the study of human remains from archaeological settings. Although his...
Martin, Debra L.; Harrod, Ryan P.; Pérez, Ventura R., eds. (2012). The Bioarchaeology of Violence. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. Archived from...
Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Times: Studies In Archaeology and Bioarchaeology. Philadelphia: Oxbow Books. Cook, B. F., Bernard Ashmole, and Donald...
and bioarchaeology may provide evidence that violence within and among groups is not a recent phenomenon. According to the book "The Bioarchaeology of...
Near Eastern bioarchaeology covers the study of human skeletal remains from archaeological sites in Cyprus, Egypt, Levantine coast, Jordan, Turkey, Iran...
of Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-53401-3. Oxenham, Marc; Tayles, Nancy (2006). Bioarchaeology of...
Intra-regional biodistance analysis using dental non-metric traits". Bioarchaeology of the Near East. Bright 2000, p. 97. Russmann & James 2001, pp. 67–68...
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