Anthropology.netA teenager buried in Qing dynasty China had an untreated cleft lip and palate. No malnutrition. A family tomb. Standard grave goods. The first case of its kind identified archaeologically in China. #Bioarchaeology #QingDynasty #Paleoanthropology https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-face-that-didnt-heal
The petrous bone holds the best ancient DNA in the body and paleogenomics is consuming it at a remarkable pace. A new study from Argentina finds CT scanning doesn’t compromise aDNA quality, making the case for imaging before any destructive analysis. #AncientDNA #Bioarchaeology #Paleogenomics https://www.anthropology.net/p/scan-before-you-sample-micro-ct-imaging
Scan Before You Sample: Micro-CT Imaging, Ancient DNA, and the Ethics of the Petrous Bone
A new study from Argentina finds that CT scanning doesn’t damage ancient DNA, making the case for digital preservation before destructive analysis.
A clay pipe, a strain of Y. pestis, and 15 sets of worn-out bones: new research from Basel links plague mortality to child labor and social exclusion in 17th-century Switzerland. The inequality was skeletal. #Bioarchaeology #PlagueHistory #SocialInequality @antiquity.ac.uk https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-unequal-dead-child-labor-plague
The Unequal Dead: Child Labor, Plague, and Social Survival in Early Modern Basel
New bioarchaeological analysis of a 17th-century hospital cemetery shows that plague mortality fell hardest on young laborers already depleted by a lifetime of physical work.
New research applies an economics-based inequality metric to isotope data from 12,281 European skeletons—finding persistent male dominance in high-protein consumption across 10,000 years of prehistory and history. #Bioarchaeology #StableIsotopes #FoodInequality https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-protein-gap
Cuneiform 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/
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