In a study recently published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, an international research team analyzed teeth from 14 different primates, including one human, to better understand the rainfall or water input patterns across their lifetimes.

Construction work in 2016 at Sanchez Adobe Park, the site of a historic Spanish mission outpost in the San Francisco Bay Area, led to the surprising discovery of human skeletal remains. This book presents a series of bioarchaeological studies done in collaboration with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band of Mission San Juan Bautista, the state-appointed Most Likely Descendants of the Ohlone people buried in this cemetery, to explore persistence and change in the lives of Native Californians recruited into the Spanish missions during the late 1700s.

Native Americans living in coastal Northern California during the Mission era were presumed to experience high rates of disease and stress. Not until now, however, did scientists have hard evidence of their health issues, according to new research conducted in cooperation with Native descendants.