We are passionate about our research and interdisciplinary collaboration. Our goal is to interpret the lives of the skeletons, the only human remains usually preserved in excavations. Each once housed a living person. Careful examination of human remains has the ability to reveal truths and secrets unknown even to the people who suffered from ailments while they were alive. Experience, knowledge, modern technology, and scientific analyses provide original or complementary information to archaeological research, profoundly enhancing our understanding of the past and highlighting unsuspected details of the lives of past societies. The strictly scientific anthropological approach does not exclude the simplicity, honesty, and sharpness of the projection of conclusions that, more often than not, contrast with the idealized iconography of themselves projected by those societies.

The lives of ordinary people who ploughed and sowed the earth, who grazed flocks or processed wool, who loaded goods and rowed boats, who carried the burdens to build homes, temples, monumental fortifications or palaces, who crafted or smelted containers, tools, jewellery or weapons, who were wounded in battle or died fighting, who gave birth and breastfed, the brief lives of infants and children who did not manage to grow to adulthood, the sick who were in pain and suffering from a variety of disorders, the treatments and surgeries performed by doctors or healers are the subject matter and the goal of our anthropological research.

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Dr P. J. P. McGeorge
Archaeologist – Anthropologist