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Contents

Information from the SGA/SSA board ............................................................. 4

Report of the SGA/ SSA Annual Meeting and Workshop 2025 in Vaduz ............. 5

Annual Meeting Contributions ....................................................................... 7

Does hard work pay off? Application of New Methods for Frailty Estimation and Age at Death

on the Skeletal Remains from the Early Iron Age Cemetery Hallstatt, Austria - Nikolai

Goritschnig ..................................................................................................................... 8

Working, Apprenticing, and Building together: Insights from the Genevan Experience at

Lully (Bernex) - Jocelyne Desideri, Audrey Poncet and Nathan Badoud ............................. 11

Plants in early alpine food systems: Microbotanical signatures from dental calculus, Middle

Neolithic Barmaz I and II, Valais, Switzerland - Charlie Le Moyne, Déborah Rosselet-Christ

and Jocelyne Desideri .................................................................................................... 12

Trauma prevalence in two early medieval skeletal series from the canton of GR - Viera

Trancik Petitpierre .......................................................................................................... 13

Widespread Skeletal Pathology in a 19th-Century UK Soldier: Combining Macroscopic,

Radiographic, and Micro-CT Analysis - Chiara Huwiler, Thomas Delbey and Nivien Petiti . 14

Late antique burials with animal bones from Zizers (GR) Vial, Schlossbungert - Joe Heinrich,

Sandra Pichler, Sabine Deschler-Erb, Viera Trancik Petitpierre ......................................... 15

Misfortune strikes in threes? Trauma as a pathway to intersecting identities and health

inequality in an Early Modern skeletal sample from Basel - Laura Rindlisbacher and Sandra

Pichler .......................................................................................................................... 17

Pelvis Morphology and Locomotor Energetics: Preliminary Findings from Athletes - Cédric

Cordey, Jasmin Sonego, Guillermo Bravo Morante, Martin Hora, Michal Struška, Vladimír

Sládek, Christina Spengler, Johannes Scherr, Nora Wieloch, Nicole M. Webb, Martin Haeusler

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Interpersonal violence among early production societies in the Horn of Africa: new

evidences from Antakari 3 - Laura Maréchal, Mariam Abdoulkader, Jocelyne Desideri, Amélie

Diaz, Stéphane Hérouin, Yasmine Mechadi, Carlo Mologni, Jessie Cauliez ........................ 20

Neuauswertung des Grabes eines "enthaupteten Verbrechers" aus dem Gräberfeld

Windisch-Dammstrasse - Lukas Gomez, Viera Trancik Petitpierre and Sandra Pichler ...... 21

Growing Up Human? Ontogenetic Insights from the Femur of Turkana Boy - Benjamin

Tournan, Alessandro Urciuoli, Guillermo Bravo Morante, Christine Tardieu, Tea Jashashvili,

Christopher Ruff and Martin Haeusler ............................................................................. 22

Cute dogs and risky birth - Victoria Poltze, Guillermo Bravo Morante, Henning Richter, Karen

Rosenberg, Nicole Grunstra and Martin Haeusler ............................................................ 23

Sketches of the Present, Echoes of the Past: A Journey into a Medieval Necropolis - Jocelyne

Desideri and Raphaël Seyfried ........................................................................................ 24

R_AGE: Refining AGE-at-Death Estimates through Late-Maturing Skeletal Markers - Axelle

Paszkowiak and Jocelyne Desideri .................................................................................. 27

Revealing Past Maternal Lives: Evidence from the Simon Reference Collection of identified

skeletons - Mila Courlet and Jocelyne Desideri ............................................................... 30

Cremation Analysis and Insights into Past Lives: The Roman Necropolis of Grandvillard

Fossard d’En-Bas (Fribourg) - Antoine Mailhot and Jocelyne Desideri .............................. 33

Student Grant Reports ................................................................................. 36

Fieldwork Report – South Africa (January–February 2026) - Victoria Poltze and Benjamin

Tournan ........................................................................................................................ 37

Members’ Information ................................................................................. 39