Simon Mays is currently Human Skeletal Biologist for Historic England, based in Portsmouth, UK. He is also a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, and a Honorary Fellow at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh. His research interests span all areas of archaeological human skeletal remains. Previous books include Advances in Human Palaeopathology (2008) edited with Ron Pinhasi, and The Bioarchaeology of Metabolic Bone Disease, 2nd edition (2020) authored with Megan Brickley and Rachel Ives.

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• 1. THE NATURE OF BONES AND TEETH; 2. THE NATURE OF THE BURIAL RECORD; 3. ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK ON BURIAL GROUNDS; 4. THE ASSESSMENT OF AGE AND SEX; 5. METRIC VARIATION IN THE SKULL; 6. METRIC VARIATION IN THE POST-CRANIAL SKELETON; 7. NON-METRIC VARIATION; 8. BONE DISEASE; 9. DENTAL DISEASE; 10. TRACES OF INJURY ON THE SKELETON; 11. STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; 12. DNA ANALYSIS; 13. CREMATED BONE; 14. ETHICS AND HUMAN REMAINS

Simon Mays is currently Human Skeletal Biologist for Historic England, based in Portsmouth, UK. He is also a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, and a Honorary Fellow at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh. His research interests span all areas of archaeological human skeletal remains. Previous books include Advances in Human Palaeopathology (2008) edited with Ron Pinhasi, and The Bioarchaeology of Metabolic Bone Disease, 2nd edition (2020) authored with Megan Brickley and Rachel Ives.

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• 1. THE NATURE OF BONES AND TEETH; 2. THE NATURE OF THE BURIAL RECORD; 3. ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK ON BURIAL GROUNDS; 4. THE ASSESSMENT OF AGE AND SEX; 5. METRIC VARIATION IN THE SKULL; 6. METRIC VARIATION IN THE POST-CRANIAL SKELETON; 7. NON-METRIC VARIATION; 8. BONE DISEASE; 9. DENTAL DISEASE; 10. TRACES OF INJURY ON THE SKELETON; 11. STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; 12. DNA ANALYSIS; 13. CREMATED BONE; 14. ETHICS AND HUMAN REMAINS

Simon Mays is currently Human Skeletal Biologist for Historic England, based in Portsmouth, UK. He is also a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, and a Honorary Fellow at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh. His research interests span all areas of archaeological human skeletal remains. Previous books include Advances in Human Palaeopathology (2008) edited with Ron Pinhasi, and The Bioarchaeology of Metabolic Bone Disease, 2nd edition (2020) authored with Megan Brickley and Rachel Ives.

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• 1. THE NATURE OF BONES AND TEETH; 2. THE NATURE OF THE BURIAL RECORD; 3. ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK ON BURIAL GROUNDS; 4. THE ASSESSMENT OF AGE AND SEX; 5. METRIC VARIATION IN THE SKULL; 6. METRIC VARIATION IN THE POST-CRANIAL SKELETON; 7. NON-METRIC VARIATION; 8. BONE DISEASE; 9. DENTAL DISEASE; 10. TRACES OF INJURY ON THE SKELETON; 11. STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; 12. DNA ANALYSIS; 13. CREMATED BONE; 14. ETHICS AND HUMAN REMAINS