Trends of Academic Societies for Physical Anthropology in UK

Abstract

A symposium ‘Human Osteology: A British Perspective’ held on 1998 at University of Bournemouth made British osteo-anthropologists resolve to organize society in UK for biological anthropology named “the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO)” on September 1998. Conference of BABAO has been held once a year on September since 1999. Main topics in the conferences are about biological anthropology or osteoarchaeology and palaeopathology. In 2005 BABAO has 224 active members with 27 overseas representing 12% of the membership.