International Journal of Osteoarchaeology

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Osteoarchaeology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Exploring Division of Labor at the Jiaojia Site in the Late Neolithic Period, Eastern China Using Entheseal Changes as Proxy16
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Conjoined first (atlas) and second (axis) cervical vertebrae in an eastern wapiti (Cervus canadensis canadensis) from the Angel Site (1000–1400 CE, Indiana, USA)12
Blue fibers found in dental calculus from Maya sacrificial victims11
Dental Stigmata and Skeletal Lesions of Congenital Treponematosis in Early Agricultural Vietnam (4000–3500 bp )9
Notes on early childhood diets in early modern Oulu, Finland, based on the stable isotope case studies of archeological dentin9
Therapeutic dentistry in prehistoric Maryland—New analyses from the Hughes (18MO1) archeological site9
Anthropological, Palaeopathological, and Stable Isotope Analyses of the Early Medieval Population of Corte Romana (Cividale, NE Italy) During the Period of Langobard Rule (6th–7th centuries ad9
Who Ate All the Thrushes? Roman Urban Street Food Consumers as well as Elites8
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Dental wear in a marine economy: A case study from Philistine Ashkelon8
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Only photos on my best side, please! Implications of bilateral asymmetry of the iliac auricular surface in non‐adult individuals for sex estimation7
A bioarcheological contribution to the social history of Roman Macedonia: The Pontokomi‐Vrysi site in Kozani Prefecture, Greece7
Chickens consumed in early modern samurai residences: A study of bird remains from the Ichigaya Honmura‐cho site, Tokyo, Japan7
Seasonal Exploitation of Migratory Waterfowl at Natufian el‐Wad Terrace, Mount Carmel, Israel7
Neanderthals Among Bird Accumulators on French Mediterranean Coasts: The Case of Les Ramandils Cave (Port‐la‐Nouvelle, Aude, Southern France)7
Nostalgia for the old country—A histological exploration of early childhood physiological stress experiences in colonial Otago, New Zealand6
Diet and Cultural Transition in Sixth Century ad China: New Isotopic Studies on Multiple Elite and Commoner Individuals in the Chang'an Region6
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Osteometry of Duck Species in Northwestern Europe—A Reassessment of Woelfle's (1967) Dataset6
Early childhood nurturing strategies in groups of the Yellow River's middle reaches from the late Yangshao culture (3500–2800 BCE): A stable isotope perspective6
Bird bone artifact from the Late Eneolithic/Early Bronze Age site of Zók (Hungary)6
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Bird remains from ecclesiastical sites in medieval Hungary6
Sorting of Proximal and Distal Long Bone Fragments Using Diaphyseal Cross‐Sectional Geometric Properties6
Subsistence strategies in the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age in Nenjiang River Basin: A zooarchaeological and stable isotope analysis of faunal remains at Honghe site, Northeast China6
The Zooarchaeology of an Iberian Medieval Jewish Community: The Castle of Lorca (Murcia, Spain)6
Neolithic Lifeways at the Microlevel: Isobiographies From Italy6
A child left behind: Malnutrition and chronic illness of a child from the Erie County Poorhouse Cemetery5
Bird remains from Vilnius Lower Castle, Lithuania (13th–19th centuries) reveal changes in social status and unusual bird pathologies5
Cremated Bone in Archaeology: Ethical Considerations in the Excavation, Analysis, Storage, and Display of Cremated Bone in the United Kingdom5
Pastoralism, hunting, and coexistence: Domesticated and wild bovids in Neolithic Sudan5
Domestic Cattle ( Bos taurus ) Late Neolithic Burial at Krzczonowice, the Greater Trochanter of Fe5
Sex differences in mechanical stress and associated labor in Hellenistic–early Roman Menainon, Sicily5
Sheep (Ovis aries) of Venda speakers during the second millennium AD in South Africa5
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Intergroup Craniometrical Variation From the Argentina Populations in the Context of Ancient and Modern World Populations5
Paleodiets of hunter‐gatherers from the central Patagonian coast: Reviewing scopes and limitations of stable isotope analyses5
Cuon Versus Canis : A Comparative Guide to the Morphological Distinction of Postcranial Bones and Its Archaeo‐Paleontological 5
Archaeozoological Insights Into Avian Exploitation in the Magdalenian of Belgium at the Caves of Trou du Frontal and Trou des Nutons5
Interpersonal violence in colonial era in Papua, Indonesia: A case study of trauma patterns of a Biak individual5
Hyperostosis frontalis interna: A new perspective in burned individuals' analysis for determining age and sex from archeo‐anthropological and medicolegal contexts4
Identifying Industrial Accidents in Ancient Societies4
Intra‐tooth isotopic analysis (δ13C and δ15N) of dentine collagen in high‐crowned teeth: A new experimental study with modern sheep specimens4
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Some Highlights From 2024: A Year in Review at the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology4
Assessing the Greater Sciatic Notch With 2‐D Shape Analysis for Sex Estimation4
Reconstructing Early Human Subsistence in Near Oceania: New Insights From Matenkupkum and Matenbek4
The talus of the pre‐Hispanic population from Punta Azul (El Hierro, Canary Islands): Variability and sexual dimorphism of nonmetric traits4
A Quantitative Approach to Record Skeletal Manifestations of Leprosy and Its Application to St Mary Magdalen Leprosarium, Winchester4
Geometric morphometric approach to dental health in an 18th‐ to 19th‐century English infirmary4
Beyond the Binary? A Multi‐Method Approach to Sexing Children at the Viking Age Site of Ihre, Gotland4
Archaeological and Biogeochemical Investigation of Past Human Relationships With Now‐Endangered Fish Species: Lake Sturgeon and American Eel in Southern Ontario, Canada4
Animals' paleopathology: Implications on human–animal interaction during the intensification of farming in the Southern Levant4
An Odontoma in Domestic Cattle ( Bos taurus ) From the Early Neolithic Site of Međureč (Serbia): M4
Female skeletal health and socioeconomic status in medieval Norway (11th–16th centuries AD): Analysis of bone mineral density and stature4
An unprecedented case of cranial surgery in Longobard Italy (6th–8th century) using a cruciform incision4
Diet of the Chanyu and his people: Stable isotope analysis of the human remains from Xiongnu burials in western and northern Mongolia4
Roman Republican Subsistence Strategies: The Case of Compartment 2 at Castelo Velho de Safara, Portugal4
The Association of Pregnancy and Scurvy in Indigenous Women and Their Children From the Late Holocene in California (USA)4
Skeletal Dysplasia During the Bronze Age in Northeast Thailand (3000–2500 BP)4
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Juvenile sex estimation using the elevation of the auricular surface: A systematic review and meta‐analysis3
Chronic Disease and Disability in an 18th‐Century Portuguese Nun: An Integrative Multisource Approach3
Sex estimation by discriminant function analysis of long bones in prehistoric Southeast Asian populations3
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Analysis of Organic Microremains in Extramasticatory Occlusal Dental Grooves: An Interpretative Challenge in Past Contexts3
Life history of a high‐class noblewoman from the late Shu state in the Chengdu Plain during the Eastern Zhou period (770–221 BC): Childhood stresses and stable life3
Subsistence and animal management at Iron Age sites of Quanshuigou and Dumuduebudege in western Xinjiang, China3
A fifth‐ to sixth‐century CE lynx (Lynx lynx L., 1758) skeleton from Hungary 2: Stature and archaeological interpretations3
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A Dangerous Trade: Traumatic Injuries Likely Sustained From Turquoise Mining a Millenia Ago in the Atacama Desert, Chile3
Bioarchaeological insights into the Late Helladic communities of South Kynouria, Peloponnese: The case of the LH IIIA2‐IIIB2 burial cluster of Socha3
Social interaction between the coast and the highlands of Chile's arid north (20°S) during the mid‐Holocene: The case of Vicugna vicugna (Molina, 1782) and Hippocamelus antis3
Primary double teeth in archeological medieval material from the area of Poland: A report on two cases3
Fish out of water3
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Occupational patterns in Anglo‐Saxon and Medieval East Midlands, England: Insights from activity‐related skeletal changes3
The great auk in Norway: From common to locally extinct3
Whose talon is this? A manual for the identification of ungual phalanges of European accipitrid birds of prey3
A skeletal dysplasia leading to a perinatal death in 17th–19th century Lisbon, Portugal3
The role of TV documentaries to disseminate osteoarchaeology more widely: The good, the bad, and the ugly3
Bronze age horsemen: An evaluation of pathological and nonpathological changes for indicators of “horsemanship syndrome” of the Strzyżów culture population, Poland, 2000–1600 BC3
A natural death assemblage of fishes from an early modern archeological context in Antwerp (Belgium)3
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A community in transition: Analysis of health and well‐being in people living during and following aridification3
Monastic meals: The role of birds in the diet of the Poor Clares at the Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes (Barcelona, Spain) from medieval to modern periods (14th to 19th centuries AD)3
Complex skeletal foot malformation in a Samnite “warrior grave” from Abruzzo, southern Italy (8th–5th century BCE)3
STARC OSTEOARCH: An open access resource for recording and sharing human osteoarchaeological data3
The Effect of Soft Tissues in Burnt Human Skeletal Remains2
Considering passenger pigeon abundance and distribution in the Late Woodland zooarchaeological record of southern Ontario, Canada2
Early Childhood in Precolonial South America: Breastfeeding, Infant Mortality, and Stable Isotopes Analysis in Southeastern Shell Mound Builders During the Middle Holocene (7th–5th Millennium BP)2
The effect of age on entheseal changes: A study of modifications at appendicular attachment sites in a large sample of identified human skeletons2
Whose talon is this? A manual for the identification of ungual phalanges of European birds of prey: Falcons and owls2
Dental disease reflects differential diets and changes in consumption over time at Knossos2
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Ethics in Osteoarchaeology2
Neotaphonomic Analysis of Bone Accumulation by a Nocturnal Raptor (Bubo bubo): Evidence From Avian Remains in Oliva Mountain (Tarragona, Spain)2
Early evidence of extra‐masticatory dental wear in a Neolithic community at Bestansur, Iraqi Kurdistan2
First Phalanx Morphometrics Reveals Camelid Morphotype Variability at Los Batanes (11th/12th c. ce), Southern Coastal Peru2
Statistical protocol for analyzing 3D muscle attachment sites based on the “Validated Entheses‐based Reconstruction of Activity” (VERA) approach2
Editorial: A tribute to Debra Martin2
Gone Batty: A Newly Adapted Morphological Methodology for Bat Cranial Remains Within an Archaeological Setting2
Accumulation agents and bird assemblages: The case of the TE9d level at Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)2
A glimpse into the body shape and limb proportions of enslaved Africans from Lagos, Portugal (15th–17th centuries)2
First Identification of Bone Whistle‐Use in Dynastic Egypt2
A visual guide for the Brabant index to score dental macrowear quantity and direction2
Why did the chicken cross the Wallace Line? Archeological evidence suggests human‐mediated dispersal of Gallus to Flores first occurred at least ~2.25 ka cal. BP2
Hypomineralization disorder in tropical Southeast Asia during the agricultural revolution: Analysis of morbidity and mortality2
Bone Arrow Points Manufacturing in Prehispanic Sierras de Córdoba, Argentina2
From the Womb to the Tomb: Identifying Calving Deaths in Archaeology2
Reconstructing the life histories of a noble couple from the Joseon period, Korea, based on skeletal evidence and historical records2
Two cases of skeletal fluorosis from the historic cemetery at Zhangwan, Henan Province, China2
Zooarchaeology of Ban Chiang and the rise of early farming communities in mainland Southeast Asia2
Oral health and nonmolar dental attrition in the Siwa‐period individuals from the Bronze Age Mogou cemetery, Northwest China2
Predictive use of modern reference osteological collections for disentangling the shape of Eurasian equid cheek teeth and metapodials in archaeological material2
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An Upper Paleolithic horse mandible with an embedded lithic projectile: Insights into 16,500 cal BP hunting strategies through a unique case of bone injury from Cantabrian Spain2
Growing up in the suburbs: Growth faltering and disease burden in the children from 16th to 18th century Tallinn, Estonia2
Weaponry and a Healed Wound From the Parthian Era (247 bce to 224 ce ): Insights From the Liyarsan2
A study of reviewing at the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology: Accepting, declining, fairness, and responsibilities2
Lions as Bone Accumulators? Exploring Multi‐Predator Contributions to the Olduvai Carnivore Site (OCS) (Tanzania) Through AI and Metric Analyses2
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Maya Sequential Burials and Subsistence Change at the Prehispanic Site of Caledonia, Cayo District, Belize: The Radiocarbon Evidence2
Animal diseases in the southern part of the Carpathian Basin during the medieval period2
Osseous harpoon heads of hunter‐gatherers from the lower Paraná wetland2
A cattle mandible thong‐smoother from a grave: Strap production and cattle traction in the Late Copper Age in Hungary2
Goffette, Q, Suarez Gonzalez, N, Vanmechelen, R, Verheyen, E, & Sonet, G (2022). Tracking the origin of worked elephant ivory of a medieval chess piece from Belgium through analysis of ancient DNA2
Human Use of Bird Resources in the Northeastern Coasts of the Beagle Channel (Tierra del Fuego, Southern South America) During the Late Holocene2
Halal and Makruk: Muslim archaeological fish assemblages as cultural identifiers in the Iberian Middle Ages?2
Pronounced hyperostosis frontalis interna and co‐occurring lesions in the skull base suggestive of a pituitary tumor in a woman from medieval Germany1
Anthropological, Pathological, and Historical Analyses of a Mummified Cranium From Bolivia Hosted in the Museum of Cantonal Archaeology and History of Lausanne, Switzerland1
Three‐Dimensional Endocranial Shape Variation in Prehistoric (Jomon and Yayoi) and Modern Japanese Populations1
The Rule Rather Than the Exception! Multi‐Predator Actualistic Accumulations From Cau del Duc (Lleida, Spain) and Their Implications for the Interpretation of the Archaeopaleontological Record1
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Analyzing entheseal changes in commingled human remains from Mesolithic and Neolithic periods in Portugal1
The Study of the Skeletal Remains of the 16th Century Italian Commander Alessandro Farnese and His Wife, Maria D'Aviz1
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How we can learn from analysing trauma in past societies1
Faunal Exploitation Strategies, Dietary Habits, and Social Status in Tang Dynasty Chang'an: Zooarchaeological Insights From Xiajiazhuang1
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Multi‐Isotope Analysis Reveals Human Millet‐Based Diets and Limited Mobility in the Central Plains of China ca. 5000 Years Ago1
Chicken Consumption in Three Early Modern (17th–19th Century) Cities in Japan1
Admixture and population dynamics in the Philippines through craniometric analysis1
Toward standardization of statistical reporting in studies on entheseal changes1
The urban sea: Cribra orbitalia, porotic hyperostosis, linear enamel hypoplasia, and sinusitis in three diachronic urban sites from the Dutch province of Zeeland (1030–1800 CE)1
Siege and Conquest. Zooarchaeological Analysis of a Sealed Dump in the Luque Castle (Córdoba, Spain)1
Long‐term processes between Classic and Postclassic populations in the Mexico basin1
Fishhooks, fishing spears, and weaving: The bone technology of Madjedbebe, Northern Australia1
A Probable Case of Multiple Osteochondromas With Madelung‐Type Deformity in Human Remains From the 7th to 10th Centuries in Japan1
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Applying the V.E.R.A. method to entheses of the humerus: An assessment of repeatability and reproducibility1
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European Evidence for the Representation of the Woolly Rhinoceros in Art1
Dento‐Alveolar Infectious Diseases Among Hunter‐Gatherers From Northeast and Central Chubut Province (Argentina) During the Late Holocene1
How dental wear can tell us about the lifestyles and trade specialization of the Philistine populations in the Iron Age Levant1
Sheep Ahoy: Exploring sheep management and its role in Viking Age economy through multiproxy analyses at Löddeköpinge, Sweden1
Marine bryozoan colonization of terrestrial biomineralized tissues: Taphonomic insights and forensic implications1
Archaeology and ethnobiology of Late Holocene bird remains from the northern Oregon coast1
Vertebrate Prey Accumulations by the Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus, Aves: Falconiformes): A Neo‐Taphonomic Study in an Urban Area From Central Western Argentina1
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Extending our understanding of past animal diet using stable isotope analysis1
Dog Pathologies in Central–Eastern Gaul During the Iron Age and Roman Period (500 bce–400 ce): Diachronic Perspectives1
The Introduction of Chickens Into Norway and Their Early Use: New Evidence From the Borgund Kaupang1
A Method for Detecting Bias in Human Archaeological Cemetery Samples1
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The role of status, diets, and mobility in understanding the impacts of urbanization in early medieval Bergen, Norway (St. Mary's Church): Insights from stable isotope analyses1
Estimating intralimb proportions for commingled remains1
Writing a First Osteoarchaeology Article: Some Advice for Early Career Researchers1
Complex genetic landscape revealed by a population in the eastern Tianshan Mountains of Xinjiang between the 8th and 11th centuries CE1
Cranial deformation in the northwestern Caspian Sea region in the Bronze Age: Siberian parallels1
Morphological and Biomechanical Consequences of Leg Amputation in a Warring States Individual (2200 BP) From the Frontier of Northern China1
A Young Woman From the Fifth Millennium BCE in Chega Sofla Cemetery With a Modified and Hinge Fractured Cranium, Southwestern Iran1
Hallux Valgus and Associated Foot Pathology in Ancient Egyptian Mummies: A Qualitative and Quantitative Computed Tomography Study1
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Violence, conflagrations and the destruction of Bronze Age cities in the ancient Near East1
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Using mixing models to study human paleodiets in central‐western Santa Cruz (Argentina) during Late Holocene1
Sturgeons in materials from archaeological sites of Ukraine: A review1
Frequency and co‐occurrence of porous skeletal lesions in identified non‐adults from Portugal (19th to 20th centuries) and its association with respiratory infections as cause of death1
Daily Rest, Osteogenic Signals, and the Reconstruction of Human Activity Patterns From Skeletal Remains1
Stable Isotope Analysis Combined With ZooMS Reveals the Subsistence Strategies at Wupu Cemetery in the Eastern Tianshan Mountains, Northwest China1
Demographic Composition and Pathology of the Human Occupants and Sacrificial Victims at Ancient Korean Tombs1
Elixir and Archaeotoxicology: Mercury Levels in the Bones of Populations in Ancient China1
Trepanation during the late Neolithic Age from the Mapai cemetery in the Gan‐Qing region, northwestern China—A bioarcheological and experimental study1
Assessing Histotaphonomy: A Pilot Study Using Image Analysis for Quantitative Scoring of Bone Diagenesis1
Mixed economy and dried foods: Dental indicators reveal Heishuiguo Han Dynasty population's environmental adaptation to the semi‐arid region of northwestern China1
Bone spearheads from the Late Prehispanic Period of Sierras of Cordoba (Argentina)1
The uncertain death. Estimating mortality structure by random sampling1
Osteoarchaeological Perspectives on Socioeconomic Changes in European Iron Age Societies: Some Introductory Remarks1
Paleodietary reconstruction of endemic rodents from the precolumbian Dominican Republic: Discriminating wild feeding behavior from diets linked to human niche construction activities1
The Effects of Urban Living on Child, Infant, and Maternal Health: A Comparative Study of Linear Enamel Hypoplasia Between Two Dutch Postmedieval Populations1
Skeletal evidence for two external auditory canal disorder cases from medieval China1
Stable isotope values of carbon and nitrogen in hair compared to bone collagen from individuals with known medical histories (Bohemia, 19th–21st centuries)1
Developmental Anomalies of the Foot Bones: Coalitions and Bipartitions in the Coimbra Identified Skeletal Collection1
Two cases of cystic echinococcosis reported from al‐Andalus cemeteries (southern Iberia): Insights into zoonotic diseases in Islamic Medieval Europe1
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An analysis of interobserver variability in the recording of maxillary sinusitis in human osteoarchaeological remains1
Neo‐Taphonomic Analysis of Prey Bone Remains Accumulated by Golden Eagle ( Aquila chrysaetos ): A 1
Revisiting the differential diagnosis of the lucent bone lesion: A case of fibrous dysplasia discovered in a Polish medieval osteological collection1
Twins found in a Late Dynastic/Coptic Egyptian mummy1
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Diseases and Traumas of Pleistocene Megafauna: A Perspective From Poland1
An “Invisible” Child—A Case of a Child With Anthropogenic Modification Marks and Pathological Conditions in Early Neolithic China1
Interpreting Linear Enamel Hypoplasia at the Amastris (Ağlayan Ağaç) Chapel Cemetery From the Eastern Roman Imperial Period Region of Paphlagonia (Türkiye)1
Assessment of the changes in the petrous portion of temporal bone (pars petrosa ossis temporalis) under the influence of high temperature during the cremation process1
The rarest among the rare? Acrometastases and disability in the past and beyond1
Dog Meat in Late Iron Age Bulgaria: Necessity, Delicacy, or Part of a Wider Intercultural Tradition?1
Paleopathological Analysis of the Early Byzantine Iasos Society in Türkiye1
Graves, landmarks, or sacrificial monuments? The human osteology and paleopathology of the Bronze Age burial cairns in Finland1
Human and camelid paleodiets in El Bolsón valley (NW Argentina): A stable isotope approach1
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More than they could chew: Activity‐induced dental modifications in a Portuguese medieval–modern rural population1
Anemias in ancient Egyptian child mummies: Computed tomography investigations in European museums1
Understanding “local”: Prehispanic Maya mobility and diet at Pacbitun, Belize, using strontium, oxygen, sulfur, carbon, and nitrogen isotope values1
An investigation into differential use of ocher in burials at Khok Phanom Di, Thailand1
A photographic atlas for European freshwater and migratory fish remains and key considerations for their analysis1
Cremation during the early period (1000 bc–600 ad) in the archaeological site of Matecaña (Pereira, Colombia)1
Determining the earliest directly dated cremation tombs in Neolithic China via multidisciplinary approaches: A case study at Laohudun site1
Transformation processes in the osteoarchaeological record between the Iron Age and the Roman times with reference to the civitas Treverorum1
A new laboratory‐based method to experimentally induce diagenetic modifications in human bone tissue using archaeological gravesoils1
A probable case of multiple osteochondromas in a Qing period (1644–1911) individual from Shandong, China1
Nonmetric population‐specific sex estimation based on the skull using logistic regression for Flemish samples1
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A test of the New Coimbra method of recording entheseal changes as applied to the foot skeleton1
Investigating the dentoalveolar complex in archaeological human skull specimens: Additional findings with large volume micro‐CT compared to standard methods1
Comparing Dental Microwear in the Populations at an Iron Age (c. 4010 BP) and Early Historic (c. 2600 BP) Site in South India1
The impact of urbanization on growth patterns of non‐adults in medieval England1
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