Session: #477

Regular session

Technological improvements during the last decades have provided bioarchaeologists with numerous new techniques for analysis of skeletal remains and other bioarchaeological material. This includes analysis of biomolecules such as proteins, DNA, and hormones, stable isotopes and trace elements, 3D-scanning, and various digital morphometrics approaches. While such techniques increase the scope of archaeological information that can be obtained from bioarchaeological samples, the most interesting bioarchaeological research is often obtained when two or more approaches are combined. This typically requires different specialists to meet and collaborate – i.e. networking among researchers.
To promote such networking as well as the dissemination of novel research methods, in this session we welcome papers on bioarchaeology where two or more researchers collaborate by using different methods or approaches to study the same material. Although the studied research material can be from any time period or geographic region, at least one of the techniques (analytical method, theoretical framework, social perspective, et cetera) used to investigate the material should be relatively novel, in the sense that it has not yet become a “mainstream” technique. Furthermore, we encourage young researchers to present their work.

Bioarchaeology, Physical anthropology, Osteoarchaeology, Skeletal analysis

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Sebastian Wärmländer (Sweden) ^1,2

Nataša Šarkić (Spain) ³