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International Journal of Epidemiology 2001;30:109-110
© International Epidemiological Association 2001

Theory and Methods

Commentary: Bones, bodies and representivity in the archaeological record

Charlotte A Robertsa and Anne Grauerb

a Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 2LE, UK.
b Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60626, USA.

The study of human remains from archaeological contexts can potentially provide archaeologists with a window on how populations lived and died, what they may have eaten, whether they practised hunting and gathering or agriculture, how they coped with illness, whether they traded and if they were in conflict. However, inherent in the study of the past is its fragmentary nature, the biased samples that ‘represent’ the past, and the problems of interpretation of the remains.

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