Isotopic Values of Prenatal Development: δ13C and δ15N Variation in Early‐Formed Human Tissues 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...

Isotopic Values of Prenatal Development: δ13C and δ15N Variation in Early‐Formed Human Tissues - Leskovar - 2026 - American Journal of Biological Anthropology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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The Archaeology of Disease by Charlotte A. Roberts, Mary E. Lewis, Jacalyn Duffin, and Keith Manchester. foreword by Anne L. Grauer | Paperback | Cornell University Press 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.....

Congratulations Mary Lewis et al. for the publication of this 4th edition of The Archaeology of Disease. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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

Since the publication of our book on bioarchaeology and activism last week this has been downloaded over 11K times! Super happy that we have been able to make this open access link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

A Biologist Explains Why Humans Have Wisdom Teeth. Hint: We Evolved Too Fast For Our Own Jaws www.forbes.com/sites/scottt...

Human Remains as ‘Conflict Antiquities’ and How Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Can Change the Narrative 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...

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... I've very glad this book chapter, within a massive new volume, is out in the world. Many thanks to my co-authors @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy and Dr. Katherine Davidson, as well as all the editors @ancientchildren.bsky.social et al.

Evolution of the Human Life Cycle, Revisited Click on the article title to read more.

Evolution of the Human Life Cycle, Revisited - Bogin - 2025 - American Journal of Human Biology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Late Mesolithic juveniles of Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov, Russia: New insights from mortuary data - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences - Juveniles remain a largely underexplored socio-biological category in Mesolithic mortuary research, despite their potential to shed light on social...

The Late Mesolithic juveniles of Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov, Russia: New insights from mortuary data link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Validating Dental Histology for Perinatal Age Estimation Using Human Deciduous Teeth 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.....

Validating Dental Histology for Perinatal Age Estimation Using Human Deciduous Teeth - Martirosyan - 2026 - American Journal of Biological Anthropology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Small Adults or Big Kids?: Exploring Archaeological and Bioarcheological Approaches to Adolescence | Berghahn Books url:https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/AverySmall

Why do we have baby teeth? 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…

Why do we have baby teeth? childhoodbioarchaeology.org/2018/02/05/w...

Mothers in Science Caregiver Travel Grants — Mothers in Science 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...

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Mothers in Science Caregiver Travel Grants — Mothers in Science 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...

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Modeling identities among the first-sedentary communities: Emergence of clay personal ornaments in Epipaleolithic Southwest Asia The discovery of the earliest clay ornaments in Southwest Asia (15,000 years ago) made by children and adults is reported.

These were made by adults and children. Modeling identities among the first-sedentary communities: Emergence of clay personal ornaments in Epipaleolithic Southwest Asia | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Motherhood and Feminism are not Dirty Words: Reimagining Archaeological Practice 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…

Motherhood and Feminism are not Dirty Words: Reimagining Archaeological Practice childhoodbioarchaeology.org/2026/03/08/m...

National award for Melsonby Hoard project - Durham University

Melsonby Hoard wins Current Archaeology’s Rescue Project of The Year - www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

A geometric morphometrics approach to sex estimation of infants from 0 to 6 years using the auricular surface
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Babies weren't supposed to be mourned in the Roman Empire. These rare liquid-gypsum burials prove otherwise. Despite historical records saying otherwise, Roman babies were mourned at death, research into unique plaster burials from York reveals.

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A large mass grave from the Early Iron Age indicates selective violence towards women and children in the Carpathian Basin - Nature Human Behaviour 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...

A large mass grave with selective violence towards women and children www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Melancholy of Anatomy | Mike Jay 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

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More women are professors, but gender gaps continue to plague NZ universities 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.

More women are professors, but gender gaps continue to plague NZ universities
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As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone The struggle is “balancing their careers not just with motherhood, but with what comes before: relationships and planning for a family,” these postdocs write

As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Children on fieldwork: how two scientist mothers made it happen We both struggled with the idea of juggling our families and field teams — but we found good reasons to keep pursuing our goals.

Children on fieldwork: how two scientist mothers made it happen www.nature.com/articles/d41...

As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone The struggle is “balancing their careers not just with motherhood, but with what comes before: relationships and planning for a family,” these postdocs write

As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review 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...

hmmmm. Checkout this article I found at PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

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Assessing Biological Mortality Bias From Deciduous Tooth Emergence Objectives Traits found in a skeletal sample are frequently used to infer qualities of the living population from which the skeletons were drawn. However, traits observed in a mortality sample may e...

Assessing Biological Mortality Bias From Deciduous Tooth Emergence - Holman - 2026 - American Journal of Biological Anthropology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....