[Paper] A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Understanding Hong Kong’s Past: Bioanthropological, Biomolecular, and Zooarchaeological Methods

via Journal of the Hong Kong Archaeological Society, 2024: Highlighting this paper by Cheung et al. published in the Journal of the Hong Kong Archaeological Society.

The past of Hong Kong has been extensively explored through close to a century’s systematic archaeological surveying, investigations, and excavations. These efforts mostly included landscape, artefactual, and rescue archaeology. is article highlights the potential of a largely underutilized subfield of archaeology in Hong Kong: archaeological science. Focusing on three main areas of archaeological science: bioanthropology, bio-molecular archaeology, and zooarchaeology, the main objective of this paper is threefold: 1) to provide an overview of recent developments in bioarchaeological techniques; 2) to showcase successful applications of bioarchaeological techniques in deriving archaeological information in the region’s past; and lastly, 3) to provide a roadmap for future archaeological research in Hong Kong. We hope that this review will help to promote the use of archaeological science in Hong Kong, and enrich the current archaeological and historical narratives we can tell.

Source: 香港考古學會