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)
