Health in a postindustrial age: The mystery of our creaky, painful knees

Enlarge / An archaeological sample with traces of bone-on-bone contact. (credit: Heli Maijanen) Painful, stiff, and grating knees may not just be a sign of aging—they may also be a sign of the times. Degenerative knee arthritis, or knee osteoarthritis (OA), seems to be on the rise. Since the early part of the 20th century, its […]