This review explores the past two decades of research on ancient Maya skeletons. The focus is on how this work has contributed to our understanding of health, diet, social change, inequality, migration and mobility, war, violence, and ritual practice, with special attention given to recent methodological developments and debates in the bioarchaeology of the Maya. This review essay highlights the most recent findings in the bioarchaeology of the Maya and how those results were achieved. The essay concludes with suggestions for future research and highlights areas of potential collaboration that have been underutilized to address broader anthropological questions.

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生物考古学和前哥伦布时期玛雅人的骨骼

这篇评论探索了过去20年中有关古代玛雅人骨骼的研究。重点是这项工作如何促进我们对健康，饮食，社会变化，不平等，移民和迁徙，战争，暴力和礼仪实践的理解，并特别关注玛雅人生物考古学的最新方法学发展和辩论。 。这篇评论文章重点介绍了玛雅人生物考古学中的最新发现以及如何实现这些结果。文章最后提出了对未来研究的建议，并重点介绍了潜在合作领域，这些领域在解决更广泛的人类学问题时并未得到充分利用。