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Bioarcheological Perspectives on the Timing of Adolescence in Rural Avar‐Age Austria, 7th–9th Centuries ce Objectives This study provides insights into adolescent development during the early medieval period in Austria and offers a point of comparison of the timing of sexual maturation relative to the Im...

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....

Covers of the four books reviewed, with the text 'New Book Chronicle'.

#OnThisDay in AD 1893, New Zealand granted all women the right to vote, becoming the first country to do so.
Learn more about the forgotten or ignored roles women held in the past in our #NewBookChronicle on the women part of, and impacted by, war.

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World's oldest mummies were smoke-dried 10,000 years ago in China and Southeast Asia, researchers find The world's oldest evidence for purposeful human mummification comes from Southeast Asia, where people smoke-dried their ancestors' corpses 10,000 years ago.

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

Microscope images of parasite eggs.

How's this for a plethora of parasites? #WorldPestDay 🏺

A diverse range of intestinal parasites found in cesspits from medieval Leiden 🇳🇱 indicate that food and drink was contaminated, suggesting sanitation and diet was poor.

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Maybe reducing the unit of resource for universities year on year while increasing both bureaucratic demands and institutional churn was not a very good idea for UK research productivity? Just a suggestion....

Very proud of my PhD student Jack Eggington talking about Industrial pollution and rickets at the Pin of Science event in Reading! #Pint25

✨️ #pint25 is starting today!✨
3 nights of fun science talks for everyone in pubs, come meet & chat with scientists!

👀🎟 Discover the programme and grab your tickets here pintofscience.co.uk

🗓️ 19-21 May 2025
📍45 locations across the UK
👓 400 events

Margot Serra, for her poster on: Life and death by the sea: paleopathological insights from an early preceramic individual from the Paracas Peninsula, Peru

This year’s PPA Eve Cockburn student prizes are:

Isobel Grimley, for her presentation on: We are all formed in frailty and error: childhood health and development in early medieval England and the Isle of Man
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The IJPP Early Career Conference Prize, an Elsevier Sponsored Award in recognition of a strong contribution to paleopathology, was awarded to:

Dr. Jenna Dittmar for her poster on: Osseous changes associated with hallux valgus deformity: a cadaveric study.

Awarding the Eve Cockburn Service Award to Dr Nivien Speith.

I had the best time at the PPAs in Baltimore last week. Such great research, good friends and a fun atmosphere @paleopathology.bsky.social
I will be sad to hand over the Presidency, but it will be in great hands!

And we are off. The 52nd Annual Paleopathology Association Morth American Meeting has BEGUN! #PPA2025 @paleopathology.bsky.social

AABA Workshop in Baltimore: What happens to my grant proposal? Peek into the process through mock review! This workshop introduces early career scholars to the grant review process through mock review exercises with experienced panelists and representatives from Leakey and Wenner-Gren. Date and Time: Marc...

Ever wondered what happens to your grant proposal once you submit it? Join a hands-on “mock review” workshop to learn about review processes at The Leakey Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. March 12 at #AABA2025. Registration is limited so act fast! @bioanth.org bit.ly/4havY78

‘I really wanted something to happen.’ The students behind the Stand Up for Science protests New group hopes to turn out researchers for 7 March demonstrations against Trump administration policies

A few weeks ago in Boston, I met the organizers behind the Stand Up for Science (@standupforscience.bsky.social) rally and spoke with them about their motivations in the buildup to the event. Read more in @science.org

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The fœtus in the museum: personhood, pregnancy, and anatomical preparations, 1880–1900 In the late 19th century, the legal status of the anatomical specimen was only slowly evolving into its modern form. Not yet regulated by legislation, specimens were subject to rampant commodificat...

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 This paper explores recent controversies concerning the disposal of embryonic and fetal remains in order to ask how such remains came to be classified as

"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...

Cranial fluctuating asymmetry and its relationship with non-specific physiological stress indicators in a contemporary South African cadaveric skeletal sample Biological anthropologists frequently explore skeletal asymmetry, together with population health and disease. Given the conflicting findings in exist…

Don't assume that cranial fluctuating asymmetry is irrefutably associated with physiological stress! Read how Harrispershad et al. carefully explore this assumption: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Expanding the diagnostic scope of paleopathology: Identification of Q fever (Coxiella burnetii) using a One Paleopathology approach This project is an application of the One Paleopathology approach to the study of Q fever (C. burnetii infection), a disease which is underdiagnosed a…

Q fever? Yes! It's an overlooked zoonotic disease with the potential to affect human populations. Learn more about it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The PPA Newsletter for March 2025 is out! Check it out: www.paleopathologyassociation.org

So, I am doing a thing! Feel free to tune in!

Lively landscapes: Sex- and age-related differences in diet and land use characterising a Late Bronze-Early Iron Age community from Tilburg, the Netherlands The Late Bronze-Early Iron Age (LBA-EIA)urnfield of Tilburg-Udenhoutseweg yielded 229 cremation graves with various features.This large cemetery is a …

Let’s explore the prehistoric landscapes of the Netherlands: enjoy our open access article www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Bio Anthro Section of the AAA is looking for graduate students to run for a position on our exec comm- It's a 2 year term.

Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

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