We have a number of Trustee roles coming to an end in 2026 and are therefore seeking nominations to fill these positions on the Board of Trustees. The positions open for nominations are: We would like to take this opportunity… Read More »Call for Nominations – Trustee roles
Join us on May 27 evening for one of our Outreach Talk series ‘Life is Like a Box of Chocolates: Bioarchaeologists in Academia’ How do Universities deal with Bones?Osteologists – People who study the archaeological bones of past peoples –… Read More »Join us for an Outreach Talk on May 27
Nominations for the BABAO Service Award are open until September 1st 2026 BABAO has established two awards for members, the Service Award and the Mentorship Award. Requests for nominations are in alternate years, with the award being presented at the BABAO Annual… Read More »Nominations open – BABAO Service Award 2026
We are very happy to share that the 27th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology will be held in Lincoln! The main conference will take place on Saturday the 12th and Sunday the 13th of September 2026. This… Read More »Join us at the 27th BABAO Annual Conference
We wish to extend a very warm welcome to our new Trustee! Becoming a BABAO Trustee is an opportunity to become more engaged in the fields of biological anthropology and osteoarchaeology in the UK, working to steer and support our… Read More »Welcome new Secretary!
There are currently no UK laws prohibiting or limiting the buying and selling of human remains, other than organs and tissue for transplantation. A 10-Minute Rule Bill outlawing the buying and selling of human remains is to be introduced in… Read More »Bill to Stop Barbaric Practice of Buying and Selling Human Remains to be Introduced
Huge congratulations to this year’s winner of the Don Brothwell Award for excellence in a undergraduate thesis! Congratulations to William Wells for their outstanding thesis “An Exploration of Two Cases of Unhealed Proximal Ulna Fractures in Skeletons Excavated from an Early… Read More »2026 Winner Don Brothwell Award
Last year, our fab members Kirsty Squires, Wendy Birch, Georgia Goold-Jones, Damien Huffer, Madeleine Mant, Sophia Mills, Charlie Primeau, Sarah Schrader and Trish Biers from the BABAO Sale of Human Remains Taskforce published this article in the Historic Environment: Policy… Read More »New article by BABAO Sale of Human Remains Taskforce
We are looking for a new Secretary (3 years) to join our Board of Trustees! Regrettably, our current Secretary is having to stand down from the role, moving for work overseas and unfortunately making it not possible to remain in the… Read More »Call for Nomination – Secretary (2026)
We are delighted to announce the call for nominations for the Holger Schutkowski Award 2026, which celebrates outstanding master’s theses that make significant contributions to the fields of biological anthropology and osteoarchaeology. We welcome submissions of quality and originality across a wide… Read More »Nominations open – Holger Schutkowski Award 2026
