Illustrates new methodological directions in analyzing human social and biological variation Offers a wide array of research on past populations around the glob

Bioarchaeology has relied on Darwinian perspectives and biocultural models to communicate information about the lives of past peoples. This book demonstrates ho

This volume uses bioarchaeological remains to examine the complexities and diversity of past socio-sexual lives. This book does not begin with the presumption t

This book investigates the complex relationship between funerary treatment and wider social dynamics through a contextual analysis of human skeletal remains and

Bioarchaeologists who study human remains in ancient, historic and contemporary settings are securely anchored within anthropology as anthropologists, yet they