Bioarchaeology, a field that combines the methods of archaeology and biological/physical anthropology, uses archaeological human skeletal remains to better understand the human past. The physical remains of people who lived in periods before modern times inform researchers on important aspects of the human experience. Data from skeletal analyses provide information that cannot be collected from any other surviving forms of evidence. In a recent paper published by the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, researchers from the Buffalo Human Evolutionary Morphology...