Two Infants, a Sewer, and What Counts as Care in Byzantine Ephesos

A grave built inside an abandoned Roman latrine turns out to be one of the gentlest funerary arrangements archaeologists have found from the period.

anthropology.net

The Archaeology of Disease, 4th ed.

Published in Childhood in the Past: An International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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How male anatomy became the default in medicine – and why that’s a problem

The problem of using male anatomy as the default in medicine is that it doesn’t always read across to female bodies.

theconversation.com

Medical museums often display infant remains – how they were acquired was frequently harrowing and involved eugenic thinking

The inequality, stigma and eugenic thinking that led to their acquisition is often obscured or erased.

theconversation.com

Biopower, Necropolitics, and the Afterlives of Infants: Uncovering the Ethics of Historical Anatomical Collections

Objectives In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many fetuses and infants were collected for anatomical study. Yet little research has explored their origins or the ethical implications of holding a...

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Forgotten infants in museum collections reflect past and present injustices  - Durham University

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Tiny Bones, Microscopic Insights: A New Look at Neanderthal Babies

How similar were Neanderthals to us, especially at the very beginning of life? Surprisingly, we’ve known very little about how Neanderthal babies grew before birth. That’s mainly because their rema…

childhoodbioarchaeology.org

Five things new parents should know about their baby’s sleep

Yes, most babies still wake during the night at 12 months. No, that doesn’t mean you’re doing anything wrong.

theconversation.com

Baby slings: what the evidence says about benefits, risks and safe use

New research finds that baby slings offer important benefits, but better safety information could help prevent rare deaths and injuries.

theconversation.com

What Teeth Reveal About Childhood Stress in 19th-Century Jordan

New research using microscopic analysis of teeth has uncovered striking evidence of high physiological stress in children at the archaeological site of Hisban in Jordan (figure 1). The findings poi…

childhoodbioarchaeology.org

First and last authors more likely to be men in leading science journals

Women’s participation in science has risen sharply, but a Nature Index analysis finds that gender gaps in first and last authorship — markers of key scientific achievements — have barely shifted over ...

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Rare case of possible child abuse uncovered in Mesopotamia 6,000 years ago

New research has uncovered a rare case of possible child abuse in ancient Mesopotamia, offering a poignant glimpse into the lived experiences of some of the region’s most vulnerable inhabitants. Th…

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An Introduction to Crip Archaeology

A groundbreaking overview of how disability studies can enrich interpretations of the past and make the profession of archaeology more inclusive and accessib...

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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...

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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.....

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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.

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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...

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Evolution of the Human Life Cycle, Revisited

Click on the article title to read more.

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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...

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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.....

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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…

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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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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...

mothersinscience.com

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.

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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…

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