The Identified Contemporary Skeletal Collections at the University of Granada

The aim of this paper is to introduce the contemporary collections housed in the Anthropology Laboratory of the University of Granada. The two collections (San José and Lucena) comprise N = 740 individuals of both sexes. All of them come from contemporary cemeteries and their dates of death are comprised between 1871 and 2005. The demographic profile indicates that the predominant age group is between 50 and 99 years of age (n = 405), although it is important to emphasize the large number of sub-adults in the collections (n = 234). The exceptional state of preservation and completeness exhibited by the remains constitutes a valuable resource for the validation and elaboration of methods for the determination of age and sex, as well as for the study of pathologies and pathological conditions documented at the bone level, for which clinical reports are available in certain cases.