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 wish to extend a very warm welcome to our new EDI 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… Read More »Welcome new EDI Trustee!
We are looking for a new EDI Trustee (3 years) to join our Board of Trustees! We would like to invite our members to nominate themselves for the position of EDI Trustee (3 years) within our Board of Trustees. Becoming a… Read More »Call for Nomination – EDI Trustee
At the 2025 Annual Meeting at the University of Leicester, BABAO’s fourth Mentorship Award was awarded to Dr Joe Wallace Walser III. What makes Joe’s mentorship stand out is the combination of exceptional scholarly expertise and genuine human kindness, which I think… Read More »BABAO Mentorship Award 2025
Big congratulations to this year’s winners of BABAO’s Research Grants, in their Commercial, Academic and DDOBA schemes! Commercial Grants Academic Grants DDOBA Academic Grant winners are expected to present their research at the BABAO conference within the 2 years following… Read More »2025 Research Grants winners
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!
We are delighted to announce the call for nominations for the Don Brothwell Award, which celebrates outstanding bachelor’s theses that make significant contributions to the fields of biological anthropology and osteoarchaeology. We welcome submissions of quality and originality across a wide range of… Read More »Nominations open – Don Brothwell Award
Nominations for the BABAO Mentorship Award are open until September 7th 2025 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 for BABAO Mentorship Award 2025 are open!
