Anthropology.netCuneiform tablets say Sumerians ate fish. Their teeth say otherwise. New zinc isotope analysis of dental enamel from 4,500-year-old Abu Tbeirah reconstructs diet where collagen has long since vanished. #Bioarchaeology #AncientMesopotamia #IsotopeArchaeology https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-sumerian-teeth-reveal-about
Three children in Neolithic Vietnam show classic signs of congenital treponematosis — but the evidence points to yaws, not syphilis. A new study challenges a foundational assumption in ancient disease research. #Paleopathology #Treponematosis #Bioarchaeology https://www.anthropology.net/p/congenital-syphilis-was-supposed
How old was this skeleton, really? A new paper argues that disease alters the very bone markers used to estimate age at death — creating a methodological loop few researchers have addressed head-on. #Paleopathology #Bioarchaeology #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/when-a-skeleton-lies-about-its-age
New bioengineering study on 329 experimental skull impacts offers archaeologists a framework for reading cranial fractures — and distinguishing ancient violence from accidental trauma. Bone thickness and fracture morphology carry more information than most realize. #Bioarchaeology #ForensicAnthropology #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-a-fractured-skull-can-tell-you
A 2,000-year-old burial in the Philippines is rewriting what we know about scurvy in tropical Southeast Asia — and what ancient communities owed their most vulnerable members. #Paleopathology #HumanEvolution #Bioarchaeology https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-young-man-in-the-philippines-2000
Omni LettersThe Oldest Jaw Surgery in the World.
CT Scan Reveals Complex Jaw Surgery Performed 2,500 Years Ago on a Woman from the Pazyryk Culture.
Read more: https://omniletters.com/the-oldest-jaw-surgery-in-the-world/
#Archaeology #AncientMedicine #AncientSurgery #JawSurgery #ArchaeologicalDiscovery #AncientHistory #HumanHistory #Pazyryk #PazyrykCulture #Scythian #Siberia #AltaiMountains #MedicalHistory #Bioarchaeology #Anthropology #Paleopathology #CTScan #ScienceNews #ScientificDiscovery #AncientCivilizations #AncientTechnology
CT scans of four Inca children sacrificed ~500 years ago on Andean volcanoes reveal blunt force trauma, possible disease, and a body partially rebuilt with textiles after burial. The ritual didn’t end at death. #Archaeology #Bioarchaeology #IncaEmpire https://www.anthropology.net/p/ct-scans-of-inca-child-sacrifices
A 2,800-year-old mass grave in Serbia holds 77 people, most of them women and children. New aDNA, isotope, and trauma analysis suggests this wasn't random — it was targeted. A thread on what prehistoric violence really looked like. #Bioarchaeology #AncientDNA #IronAge https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-gomolava-massacre-what-a-2800
The Gomolava Massacre: What a 2,800-Year-Old Mass Grave Reveals About Targeted Violence in Prehistoric Europe
A new bioarchaeological study of an Early Iron Age burial pit in Serbia finds that the victims were overwhelmingly women and children — and that this was almost certainly not an accident.
Matthew Collins🦷 A new study by @[email protected]
High-throughput paleoproteomics method using MALDI-CASI-FTICR mass spectrometry to estimate biological sex from tooth enamel.
Great success on 130 individuals from medieval Great Moravia.
#Bioarchaeology #Archaeology #Proteomics #TooMS 😉 #Teammasspec
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Two Neolithic communities, 4km apart, genetically related — and radically different ideas about how gender should be marked in life and death. New bioarchaeology from Hungary is genuinely strange. #Bioarchaeology #Neolithic #Osteology https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-two-neolithic-cemeteries-in
