Growing interest in bioarchaeology and its ability to address complex questions tied to social and biological identities in the past has led to the development of nuanced methods for evaluating mobility and migration using human skeletal remains. Improving our ability to identify both short- and long-term migration through observations of body modification, analyses of biological distance, and applications of biogeochemical and aDNA techniques has enabled us to move beyond the simple dichotomous classification of past individuals as either local or nonlocal. These approaches have elucidated the complexity of migration processes while also revealing the heterogeneous ways in which individual agents and social groups incorporate, instigate, experience, and adapt to movement. These data have likewise demonstrated the potential of bioarchaeology to reveal broader patterns of social organization, social and ethnic identities, fictive kinship, postmarital residence, gender roles and relations, detailed life courses, responses to climate stress, and pathways of disease transmission. As bioarchaeology continues to contribute to mobility and migration studies, human skeletal data should be further contextualized by the archaeological record and linked to anthropological, archaeological, and bioarchaeological theoretical frameworks as part of more holistic attempts to explain the diversity and dynamics of human movement, interaction, and identity construction among communities in the past.

人们对生物考古学及其解决过去与社会和生物身份相关的复杂问题的能力越来越感兴趣，导致开发出利用人类骨骼遗骸评估流动性和迁移的细致方法。通过观察身体改造、分析生物距离以及应用生物地球化学和DNA技术，提高我们识别短期和长期迁移的能力，使我们能够超越将过去个体简单地分为本地或非本地的二分法。这些方法阐明了迁移过程的复杂性，同时也揭示了个体主体和社会群体整合、煽动、体验和适应迁移的异质方式。这些数据同样证明了生物考古学在揭示更广泛的社会组织模式、社会和种族身份、虚构亲属关系、婚后居住、性别角色和关系、详细的生命历程、对气候压力的反应以及疾病传播途径方面的潜力。随着生物考古学继续为流动和迁移研究做出贡献，人类骨骼数据应进一步与考古记录结合起来，并与人类学、考古学和生物考古学理论框架联系起来，作为更全面地解释人类运动、相互作用的多样性和动态的一部分。 ，以及过去社区之间的身份建构。