Abstract
This paper presents archaeo-anthropological results of forensic and paleopathological investigations concerning two chronologically diverse human skeletal populations excavated from the site of Malloura, in Athienou, Cyprus. Part of a larger cross-disciplinary project! this endeavor introduces some of the inherent difficulties and peculiarities faced by the physical anthropologist/paleopathologist in his pursuit to reconstruct aspects of the human condition during antiquity. Here, despite the limitations of preservation, an attempt was made to better decipher and interpret diachronic conditions of human adaptation.