KEYNOTE 2 To round off Day 2 of #BABAO2025, we have our second Keynote Lecture: Linda Mbeki discusses their research on ‘From bones to ancestors: Embodiment, structural violence, and social justice’ 👩🏿‍🦱⛓️⚖️

Visiting New Zealand professor to study Britain’s ‘skeletons in the closet’ - www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

Archaeologists may have found the world's oldest mummies: 10,000 years ago, groups smoke-dried their ancestors to preserve them. 🧪🏺

Bioarcheological Perspectives on the Timing of Adolescence in Rural Avar‐Age Austria, 7th–9th Centuries ce - Klostermann - 2025 - American Journal of Biological Anthropology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Revealing Developmental Transitions in Perinatal and Infant Individuals Through Microanatomical Analysis - Moreno - 2025 - American Journal of Human Biology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Full article: Biocultural Perspectives of Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence in the Past: Challenges, Complexities, and Interdisciplinarity www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Non-Adult Burials of Cabeço da Amoreira, Muge (Portugal): Recent Discoveries and New Insights into Mesolithic Funerary Practices: Childhood in the Past: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Primary Canine Hypoplasia in African American and Indonesian Children: Prevalence, Expression and Tooth Size - Lukacs - 2025 - American Journal of Biological Anthropology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Medieval skeletons reveal the lasting damage of childhood malnutrition – new study theconversation.com/medieval-ske...

A Heavy Issue: Changes in Body Size in London Before, During and After the Black Death - Mongillo - 2025 - American Journal of Biological Anthropology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Sharing a Bed With Your Kid? It’s Totally Normal in Asia. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/w...

One Paleopathology and lessons from the past url: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

A Framework for Incorporating Diverse Gender Identities into Forensic Anthropology Casework and Theory : Recommendations for Inclusive Practices | Current Anthropology www-journals-uchicago-edu.ezproxy.otago.ac.nz/doi/10.1086/...

Saw this IG post about childbirth, and it reminded me of your article. www.instagram.com/reel/DLqG4Yn...

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Fostering Inclusive Practices of Citation and Teamwork in Biological Anthropology : A Comment on Källén et al. 2024 | Current Anthropology: Vol 66, No 3 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Female lineages and changing kinship patterns in Neolithic Çatalhöyük | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A medical historical museum contends with its collection of human remains

I am looking for a postdoc for my ERC WEB CHILD project. 2,5ys. Aarhus, Denmark. Well paid. Amazing team. You don't need a PhD in history or prior knowledge of digital methods 😄 You do need fluent Korean and English and interest in collaborative work. www.au.dk/om/stillinge...

Very happy to be part of this research on subsistence practices in prehistoric Myanmar link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Teaching evaluations shook my confidence—until I learned to filter the critiques | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Childhood scars in adult remains: bioarcheological approaches to early life in medieval Galicia using dental enamel hypoplasia: Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies: Vol 0, No 0 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The 2025 round of the ASHB Studentship is now open for applications! Up to $2000 of funding is available to support student research. To become a member and learn more about this opportunity, please visit www.australasianhumanbiology.com

NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Interesting research on PCOS and age at menarche

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

Something to think about

We've just published our whole special virtual issue on Ethics in the Curation and Use of Human Skeletal Remains for Teaching and Research, which emerged from our symposium at the American Association of Biological Anthropologists onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Full article: Designing for Embodied Proximity www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The fœtus in the museum: personhood, pregnancy, and anatomical preparations, 1880–1900: Mortality: Vol 29 , No 2 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Call for papers for a colloquium on 'Becoming Human? Childhood, Development, and the Human Sciences'. The deadline for proposed papers is 7 March 2025 and the colloquium will be on 23 June 2025, organised by the University of Oxford's Centre for the History of Childhood.

"Properly Disposed of": A history of embryo disposal and the changing claims on fetal remains: Medical Anthropology: Vol 21, No 3-4 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...