Bioarchaeological ethics: a historical perspective on the value of human remains / Phillip L. Walker -- Forensic anthropology: methodology and diversity of applications / Douglas H. Ubelaker -- Taphonomy and the nature of archaeological assemblages / Ann L.W. Stodder -- Juvenile skeletons and growth-related studies / Shelley R. Saunders -- Histomorphometry of human cortical bone: applications age estimation / Alexander G. Robling and Sam D. Stout -- Biomechanical analyses of archaeological human skeletons / Christopher B. Ruff -- Morphometrics and biological anthropology in the postgenomic age / Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Miriam Leah Zelditch, Trish E. Parsons, Erika Kristensen, Nathan M. Young, and Steven K. Boyd -- Reading between the lines: dental development and subadult age assessment using the microstructural growth markers of teeth / Charles M. FitzGerald and Jerome C. Rose -- Dental morphology / G. Richard Scott -- Dental pathology / Simon Hillson -- Analysis and interpretation of skeletal trauma / Nancy C. Lovell -- Light and broken bones: examining and interpreting bone loss and osteoporosis in past populations / Sabrina C. Agarwal -- Stable isotope analysis : a tool for studying past diet, demography, and life history / M. anne Katzenberg -- Bone chemistry and trace element analysis / James Burton -- DNA analysis of archaeological remains / Anne C. Stone -- Metric analysis of skeletal remains: methods and applications / Michael Pietrusewsky -- Nonmetric trait variation in the skeleton: abnormalities, anomalies, and atavisms / Shelley R. Saunders and Dori L. Rainey -- Advances in paleodemography / George R. Milner, James W. Wood, and Jesper L. Boldsen -- Method and theory in paleodemography, with an application to a hunting, fishing and gathering village from the late eastern woodlands of North America / Richard S. Meindl, Robert P. Mensforth, and C. Owen Lovejoy