Techniques for the Investigation of Age-Related Bone Loss and Osteoporosis in Archaeological Bone

With increasing awareness of age-related bone loss and osteoporosis in modern Western populations, a growing number of studies have set out to investigate whether individuals in the past were similarly affected (Martin and Armelagos, 1979; Bennike and Bohr, 1990; Lees et al., 1993; Agarwal and Grynpas, 1996; Brickley and Howell, 1999; Drusini et al., 2000; Mays, 2000). Research has demonstrated that age-related bone loss and osteoporosis …