bioarchaeology
/ˌbʌɪəʊɑːkɪˈɒlədʒi
/(US also bioarcheology)
noun [mass noun]
The study of bones and other biological materials found in archaeological remains in order to provide information about human life or the environment in the past: he recommended that the skeletons be reinterred after being studied by experts in bioarchaeology...
- Complementing the historical data are the resources of archaeology and my own specialty, bioarchaeology.
- Martin Jones has been at the forefront of bioarchaeology as the subject has matured in the 1980s and 1990s.
- Bioarchaeology is beginning to fill in the details of the historical record, offering specifics about how food sources changed.
Derivatives
bioarchaeological
- The final essay exploits a range of bioarchaeological data to establish a framework for reviewing female health in urban Roman Britain.
- When applied in a bioarchaeological context, stable strontium isotope analysis has been successfully used to provide information about human mobility.
- The impact of the adoption of intensive maize agriculture on the human skeletal system is well documented in the bioarchaeological literature.
bioarchaeologist
- Using stable isotope analysis, bioarchaeologists can directly determine the dietary sources of carbon and nitrogen
- She is an experienced bioarchaeologist examining changes in the health of prehistoric people living nearly 4000 years ago in Thailand through skeletal and archaeological analysis.
- The oldest DNA ever found comes from Siberian dirt analyzed by bioarchaeologist Eske Willerslev at Oxford University.