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Neanderthals drilled cavities to treat a toothache 59,000 years ago

“Every time I go to the dentist, I think about that guy,” researcher says.

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https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/neanderthals-drilled-cavities-to-treat-a-toothache-59000-years-ago/

Scurvy in the San Francisco Bay Area, in infants buried millennia ago. New bioarchaeology shows that in Late Holocene California, available food ≠ consumed food, especially for pregnant women. #Bioarchaeology #Paleopathology #IndigenousCalifornia https://www.anthropology.net/p/scurvy-in-the-land-of-plenty-pregnancy

Earliest known burial in Northern Britain identified as young girl through DNA analysis

Archaeologists have identified the oldest human remains yet found in northern Britain as those of a young girl who lived more than 11,000 years ago. Her bones came from Heaning Wood Bone Cave near Great Urswick in Cumbria. Radiocarbon dates place her burial between 9290 and 8925 BCE...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/earliest-known-burial-in-northern-britain/

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Earliest known burial in Northern Britain identified as young girl through DNA analysis

Archaeologists have identified the oldest human remains yet found in northern Britain as those of a young girl who lived more than 11,000 years ago. Her bones came from Heaning Wood Bone Cave near Great Urswick in Cumbria. Radiocarbon dates place her burial between 9290 and 8925 BCE...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/earliest-known-burial-in-northern-britain/

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Earliest known burial in Northern Britain identified as young girl through DNA analysis

Archaeologists have identified the oldest human remains yet found in northern Britain as those of a young girl who lived more than 11,000 years ago. Her bones came from Heaning Wood Bone Cave near Great Urswick in Cumbria. Radiocarbon dates place her burial between 9290 and 8925 BCE...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/earliest-known-burial-in-northern-britain/

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Earliest known burial in Northern Britain identified as young girl through DNA analysis

Archaeologists have identified the oldest human remains yet found in northern Britain as those of a young girl who lived more than 11,000 years ago. Her bones came from Heaning Wood Bone Cave near Great Urswick in Cumbria. Radiocarbon dates place her burial between 9290 and 8925 BCE...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/earliest-known-burial-in-northern-britain/

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Earliest known burial in Northern Britain identified as young girl through DNA analysis

Archaeologists have identified the oldest human remains yet found in northern Britain as those of a young girl who lived more than 11,000 years ago. Her bones came from Heaning Wood Bone Cave near Great Urswick in Cumbria. Radiocarbon dates place her burial between 9290 and 8925 BCE...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/earliest-known-burial-in-northern-britain/

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A 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The 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

How ancient communities adapted their diets and farming strategies in prehistoric Poland

Archaeologists and bioarchaeologists have reconstructed three thousand years of diet and economy in Kuyavia, north-central Poland, tracing how…
#Poland #Polska #PL #Europe #Europa #EU #Aktualności #Archaeobotany #ArchaeologyofFood #Bioarchaeology #bronzeage #Neolithic #poland #polska
https://www.europesays.com/2807790/

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

🦷 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

Stone Age teen buried in Italy died after bear attack 28,000 years ago, new forensic study finds

Researchers have identified a fatal bear mauling as the cause of death for a Gravettian teenager buried about 28,000 years ago in Arene Candide Cave in Liguria, Italy. The individual, long known as Il Principe due to the richness of his grave, was excavated in 1942...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/stone-age-teen-italy-bear-attack/

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New evidence of “severed heads” among Iberian peoples expands the geographic range of an Iron Age ritual beyond the Llobregat River. Skull analysis reveals violence, defleshing, and treatment with pine resin. #IronAge #Bioarchaeology #IberianPeninsula https://www.anthropology.net/p/severed-heads-at-the-southern-border

Roots of medieval migration into England uncovered by large-scale bioarchaeological study

A major new bioarchaeological study is reshaping how scholars understand migration into England during the early medieval period, showing a picture of steady, long-term movement rather than short, dramatic waves of newcomers...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/roots-of-medieval-migration-into-england/

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Milk leaves traces even on the steppe. Iron Age Scythians consumed dairy from cattle, sheep, goats, and sometimes horses, preserved in dental plaque. Proteins tell personal stories. #Archaeology #Anthropology #Bioarchaeology https://www.anthropology.net/p/milk-on-the-steppe

Iron Age teeth from southern Italy reveal childhood stress, fermented foods, and daily survival written in enamel and plaque. A reminder that archaeology starts with bodies, not ruins. #Archaeology #Bioarchaeology #AncientDiet #IronAge https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-ancient-teeth-remember

Infrared imaging reveals tattoos on ancient Nubian infants and toddlers, reshaping views of childhood, faith, and identity along the medieval Nile. Bodies were marked early, visibly, and with meaning. #Bioarchaeology #Nubia #AncientBodies #Archaeology https://www.anthropology.net/p/marked-before-memory-what-nubian

6,000-year-old skeleton reveals survival after a violent lion attack in ancient Bulgaria

Archaeologists working in eastern Bulgaria have discovered one of the most unusual forms of prehistoric evidence: the skeletal remains of a young man who survived a violent lion attack more than 6,000 years ago, lived long enough to show clear signs of healing, and received community care...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/12/6000-year-old-survival-after-a-violent-lion-attack/

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Ancient DNA from a Calabrian cave reveals a small Bronze Age mountain community shaped by tight kinship, selective mobility, and extreme consanguinity. A reminder that prehistory was complex, local, and deeply human. #Archaeogenetics #BronzeAge #HumanEvolution #Bioarchaeology https://www.anthropology.net/p/kinship-in-the-shadows-of-the-apennines

A 6,000-year-old skeleton from Bulgaria bears healed lion bite wounds to the skull. Survival after such trauma reveals care, disability, and social tension in Eneolithic life. Bones record compassion and fear side by side.#Bioarchaeology #HumanEvolution #Archaeology #DeepHistory https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-lions-teeth-and-a-human-life-what

A newly analyzed trophy head from ancient Peru shows a rare cleft lip, revealing complex views of disability, identity and ritual in the Andes. Its journey through museums highlights shifting meanings of human remains. #Bioarchaeology #Andes #Archaeology #Museums https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-face-marked-twice-rethinking-cleft

Ancient Chinchorro mummies show that modern Chileans are taller and have larger cranial volumes because of recent improvements in nutrition and health, not ancient lifestyle shifts. Bodies change fast when environments do. #bioarchaeology #anthropology #Chile #humanvariation https://www.anthropology.net/p/shaped-by-time-what-ancient-mummies

https://theconversation.com/its-a-myth-that-the-victorians-created-modern-dog-breeds-weve-uncovered-their-prehistoric-roots-269534?utm_medium=article_clipboard_share&utm_source=theconversation.com

Well worth a read if you have any interest in dogs.

The article has also provided me with my first encounter with the term "bioarchaeology".

#Dogs #Breeds #Bioarchaeology

Ancient concretions on human remains hold microbial DNA and proteins, revealing how decay itself can preserve life’s molecular traces. A new frontier for archaeology’s molecular record. #Bioarchaeology #AncientDNA #Taphonomy https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-bodys-afterlife-how-mineral-concretions

A Byzantine child buried 900 years ago in Aphrodisias shows signs of a rare bone disease, Caffey disease, offering new insight into childhood health, care, and resilience in medieval Anatolia. #Bioarchaeology #Byzantine #Osteology #Paleopathology https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-swollen-legacy-the-byzantine-child

In Peru’s Colca Valley, parents shaped infants’ heads to echo sacred peaks, crafting identity in bone. New research links head-binding to personhood, privilege, and power. #Bioarchaeology #Andes #Archaeology #BodyModification #Culture https://www.anthropology.net/p/shaping-the-self-how-andean-head

You can read a summary of Nolan et al. (2025) work here https://archaeologymag.com/2025/05/medieval-man-with-crippled-knee-reveals-disability-care/; the full #openaccess article is here https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/opar-2025-0043/html
#bioarchaeology #osteology #medieval #histmed (4/4)

Using osteological analysis, historical documents, digital excavation records, + 3D modelling, Nolan et al. (2025) applied interdisciplinary techniques to unearth the care realities of a man in Lund, Sweden, living around 1300-1536 CE. #healthumanities #medmed #medieval #bioarchaeology (2/4)

Using osteological analysis, historical documents, digital excavation records, + 3D modelling, Nolan et al. (2025) applied interdisciplinary techniques to unearth the care realities of a man in Lund, Sweden, living around 1300-1536 CE. #healthumanities #medmed #medieval #bioarchaeology (2/4)

Using osteological analysis, historical documents, digital excavation records, + 3D modelling, Nolan et al. (2025) applied interdisciplinary techniques to unearth the care realities of a man in Lund, Sweden, living around 1300-1536 CE. #healthumanities #medmed #medieval #bioarchaeology (2/4)

Using osteological analysis, historical documents, digital excavation records, + 3D modelling, Nolan et al. (2025) applied interdisciplinary techniques to unearth the care realities of a man in Lund, Sweden, living around 1300-1536 CE. #healthumanities #medmed #medieval #bioarchaeology (2/4)

Study: Scribes in ancient Egypt had really poor posture during work - Enlarge / Statues depicting the high dignitary Nefer and his wife (Abus... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2033600 #forensicarchaeology #repetitivestress #bioarchaeology #ancientegypt #anthropology #archaeology #science

Article!

#OpenAccess article exploring the #health of medieval miners in historic silver mining settlement #Kutnáhora using #bioarchaeology.

#medievaltwitter #childhoodarchaeology #mininghistory

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ase/advpub/0/advpub_231017/_article

Is it possible to identify #Tobacco use from human remains?

Our colleague #SheridanStrang is currently investigating this question with five tooth samples from the #Napoleonic #battlefield of #Deutsch-Wagram
The project is funded by the British Association for Biological #anthropogy and #Osteoarchaeology #BABAO and takes place in cooperation with the #viennabiocenter of the @univienna and the research group #TobaccoAndHealth of #UniversityOfLeicester

@archaeodons #archaeology #bioarchaeology

This week almost 3000 archaeologists from all over the world will meet in #belfast for the #EAA2023. Our colleagues @jaslon and S. Strang will also be there with contributions in #sciencecommunication and #bioarchaeology

@EAAarchaeology @archaeodons #eaa2023belfast