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Osteology

Fed the same way? Exploring the influence of breastfeeding, weaning, and childhood diet on adult sex ratios through stable isotope analysis of incremental dentine in Medieval Tuscany, Italy (11^th–15^th c. CE)

Alessio Amaro, Antonio Fornaciari, Valentina Giuffra, Sang-Tae Kim, Martin Knyf, Paul Szpak, Bonnie Kahlon, Tracy L. Prowse

published 21 Jan 2026

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Sticking our nose into the Sonorini tribe: A new genus and species of snake (Squamata: Colubridae: Sonorini) from the Balsas Basin of Mexico

Antonio Y. Cisneros-Bernal, Ricardo Palacios-Aguilar, Carlos Hernández-Jiménez, Eric N. Smith, Oscar Flores-Villela, Cristian Hernández-Morales, Oscar Olivares Loyola, Gustavo Campillo-García

published 10 Dec 2025

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Bone weathering in a Mediterranean climate region: An experimental case study from Doñana National Park (Spain)

Marcos Pizarro-Monzo, Laura Domingo, Juan José Negro, Enrique Cantero, David M. Martín-Perea, M.Soledad Domingo

published 31 Oct 2025

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Multiproxy study reveals equality in the deposition of flaked lithic grave goods from the Baltic Stone Age cemetery Zvejnieki (Latvia)

Anđa Petrović, Jessica Bates, Aija Macāne, Ilga Zagorska, Mark Edmonds, Kerkko Nordqvist, Aimée Little

published 10 Sep 2025

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A Late Bronze Age foreign elite? Investigating mobility patterns at Seddin, Germany

Anja B. Frank, Jens May, Serena Sabatini, Franz Schopper, Robert Frei, Flemming Kaul, Susanne Storch, Svend Hansen, Kristian Kristiansen, Karin M. Frei

published 10 Sep 2025

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Funerary practices of cremation at the megalithic societies of South-Eastern Iberia: The cemetery of Los Milanes

Paula Becerra Fuello, Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez, Miriam Vílchez Suárez, Sonia Robles Carrasco, Lara Milesi García, Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, Christophe Snoeck, Elisavet Stamataki, Javier Lescure, Margarita Sánchez Romero

published 03 Sep 2025

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Unique osteological evidence for human-animal gladiatorial combat in Roman Britain

T. J. U. Thompson, D. Errickson, Christine McDonnell, Malin Holst, Anwen Caffell, John Pearce, Rebecca L. Gowland

published 23 Apr 2025

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First unambiguous record of pneumaticity in the axial skeleton of alvarezsaurians (Theropoda: Coelurosauria)

G.J. Windholz, J.G. Meso, M.J. Wedel, M. Pittman

published 02 Apr 2025

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Morphological changes in the human mandible associated with the presence of exostoses: A cross-sectional study in two archaeological populations from southern France

Estelle Casazza, Benoit Ballester, Camille Philip-Alliez, Yann Ardagna, Anne Raskin

published 12 Feb 2025

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Anatomical description and digital reconstruction of the skull of Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from China

Filippo Bertozzo, Niu Kecheng, Nathan Vallée Gillette, Pascal Godefroit

published 24 Jan 2025

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Life and death in Trypillia times: Interdisciplinary analyses of the unique human remains from the settlement of Kosenivka, Ukraine (3700–3600 BCE)

Katharina Fuchs, Robert Hofmann, Liudmyla Shatilo, Frank Schlütz, Susanne Storch, Vladislav Chabanyuk, Wiebke Kirleis, Johannes Müller

published 11 Dec 2024

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Practitioner preferences in the analysis of cremation deposits in archaeology and biological anthropology: An overview of current osteoarchaeological practices with a focus on sex estimation

Marta Hlad, Tessi Löffelmann, Jacob I. Griffith, Hannah F. James, Martine Vercauteren, Christophe Snoeck, Barbara Veselka

published 02 Dec 2024

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‘But no living man am I’: Bioarchaeological evaluation of the first-known female burial with weapon from the 10^th-century-CE Carpathian Basin

Balázs Tihanyi, Kitti Maár, Luca Kis, Alexandra Gînguță, Gergely I. B. Varga, Bence Kovács, Oszkár Schütz, György Pálfi, Endre Neparáczki, Tibor Török, Olga Spekker, Zoltán Maróti, William Berthon

published 26 Nov 2024

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