Roman Bioarchaeology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Life and Death in the Roman World

How bioarchaeology can illuminate the lived experiences of people in the Roman Empire

Research on the Roman Empire has long focused on Rome’s legendary leaders, culture, and conquest. But at the empire’s peak, tens of millions of ordinary people coexisted in its territories—people who built the structures, wrote the literature, and transformed the landscapes we study today. In Roman Bioarchaeology, researchers use human skeletal remains recovered from throughout the Roman world to portray ho...