In addition to including stimulating case studies, ranging in date from the Palaeolithic to modern periods, the 17 chapters in this book provide an overview of bioarchaeological research across Greece and Cyprus.

Introduction (Lynne A. Schepartz, Sherry C. Fox, and Chryssi Bourbou); Bioarchaeological Approaches to Aegean Archaeology (Jane Buikstra and Anna Lagia); Petralona: Link Between Africa and Europe? (Katerina Harvati); "On This Wise Held They Funeral For Horse-Taming Hector": A Greek Incineration from the Louvre Museum Reflects Homeric Burial Ritual (Philippe Charlier); It Does Take a Brain Surgeon: A Successful Trepanation from Kavousi, Crete, and the Identification of Associated Surgical Instruments (Maria A. Liston and Leslie P. Day); The Malleable Body: Headshaping in Greece and the Surrounding Regions (Kirsi O. Lorentz); Skeletal Evidence for Militarism in Mycenaean Athens (Susan K. Smith); Patterns of Trauma in a Medieval Urban Population from Central Crete (Chryssi Bourbou); Patterns of Life and Death at the Site of Sourtara Galaniou Kozanis in Northern Greece (Chryssi Bourbou and Agathoniki Tsilipakou); The World's Largest Infant Cemetery and its Potential for Studying Growth and Development: The Notia Kylindra Site on the Island of Astypalaia in the Dodecanese (Simon Hillson); Differential Health and Status among the Mycenaeans of Messenia: The Status of Females at Pylos (Lynne A. Schepartz, Sari Miller-Antonio, and Joanne M.A. Murphy); Regional Differences in the Health Status of the Mycenaean Women of East Lokris (Carina Iezzi); Anthropological Research on a Byzantine Population from West Greece (Christina Papageorgopoulou and Nikolaos I. Xirotiris); Human Osteological Remains from Proskynas, Fthiotis: A Bioarchaeological Analysis (Anastasia Papathanasiou, Eleni Zachou, and Michael P. Richards); Isotope Paleodietary Analysis of Humans and Fauna from the Late Bronze Age Site of Voudeni (Eirini I. Petroutsa, Michael P. Richards, Lazaros Kolonas, and Sotiris K. Manolis); Population Mobility at Frankish and Ottoman Corinth: Evidence from Stable Oxygen Isotope Ratios of Tooth Enamel (Sandra J. Garvie-Lok); Porotic Hyperostosis in Neolithic Greece: New Evidence and Further Implications (Eleni Stravopodi, Sotiris K. Manolis, Stavros Kousoulakos, and Michael Schultz); The Application of Mt-Dna Analysis to the Investigation of Kinship from Skeletal Remains (Maria Georgiou, George D. Zouganelis, Chara Spiliopoulou and Antonis Koutselinis).

The papers [in this volume] serve to exemplify the compelling skeletal biological questions addressed in bioarchaeology in Greece today and prospects for the future. Chapter authors represent a broad range of disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, bioarchaeology, medicine, dentistry, genetics, chemistry, and paleoanthropology. [...] Although the focus is Greece, this volume also provides useful exemplars of bioarchaeological research in general. Given its impact on modern culture and philsophy, this window in the life and times of Greek populations provided through the lends of bioarchaeological research should be of interest to scholars in a broad range of disciplines and academic levels. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' -- Choice Choice ...this is a collection of highly interesting papers that offers invaluable insight into a diversity of current research themes on past human populations in Greece. The volume will undoubtedly be an important source of information and inspiration for researchers into skeletal biology and other neighboring fields. Its reading is also strongly recommended for archaeologists and historians - especially those who are still unfamiliar with the ever-increasing research potential offered by skeletal remains.' -- AJA Online Book Reviews AJA Online Book Reviews