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Reconstructing Early Human Subsistence in Near Oceania: New Insights From Matenkupkum and Matenbek

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The colonization of New Ireland ~44–40,000 years ago represents the earliest evidence of human occupation in Near Oceania. Yet, the precise impacts of climatic changes on subsistence strategies during the Late Pleistocene, Last Glacial Maximum, and Holocene remain poorly understood.
Joëlle den Toom, Glenn Summerhayes, Anne Ford, Karen Greig   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aterian shell beads from the coastal site of El Mnasra Cave (Rabat-Témara, Morocco): Specificities of the north African MSA personal ornaments. [PDF]

PLoS One
Campmas E, Lebon M, Dupont C, Bondetti M, Ben Arous E, Lenoble A, Chahid D, Lozouet P, Bellot-Gurlet L, El Hajraoui MA, Nespoulet R.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Hallux Valgus and Associated Foot Pathology in Ancient Egyptian Mummies: A Qualitative and Quantitative Computed Tomography Study

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to gain information on the prevalence and manifestation of hallux valgus and associated foot pathology in ancient Egyptian mummies. Additionally, we investigated possible indicators of postmortem deformation of the feet during mummification. For this study, 34 mummies that had undergone whole body computed tomography (
Stephanie Panzer, Peter Augat, Klaus Hergan, Alice Paladin, Stephanie Zesch, Wilfried Rosendahl, Randall C. Thompson, Albert R. Zink   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reassessing Rujm el-Hiri: Aerial imagery and stone circles in the proto-historic Southern Levant. [PDF]

PLoS One
Birkenfeld M, Khabarova O, Eppelbaum LV, Berger U.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Structure of an Ancient Egyptian Tomb Inferred from Ground-Penetrating Radar Imaging of Deflected Overburden Horizons [PDF]

, 2015
Booth, AD, Griffin, K, Pischikova, E, Szpakowska, K   +3 more
core   +1 more source

The Association of Pregnancy and Scurvy in Indigenous Women and Their Children From the Late Holocene in California (USA)

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Limited evidence of nutritional deficiencies has been identified in bioarchaeological studies of Native California populations, although isotopic and ethnohistoric research provides evidence of regional, seasonal, and cultural variability in food shortages.
Alyson Caine, Christopher Canzonieri, Eric J. Bartelink, Andrew Galvan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving micromorphological analysis with CNN-based segmentation of flint/obsidian, bone and charcoal. [PDF]

PLoS One
Arnay R, García-Villa P, Hernández-Aceituno J, Rueda-Saiz S, Mallol C.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Cultural Modifications in an Adolescent Earth-Oven Interment from Fiji: Sorting out Mortuary Practice [PDF]

, 2007
Cochrane, E, Douglas, M, Pietruesewsky, M, Reinke, S   +3 more
core   +1 more source

A Smile From the Past: Exploring a Fixed Bone Dental Bridge From Eighteenth/Nineteenth Century Porto (Portugal)

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents the first documented case of a fixed bone dental bridge in Portugal. This item was recovered alongside the remains of a young adult individual of indeterminate sex from the 19th century burial site of the 3rd Order of Our Lady of Carmo in Porto, Portugal.
Steffi Vassallo, Alexandra Patrícia Lopes Esteves, Sandra Assis, Zélia Rodrigues, Nicholas Márquez‐Grant, Anne Malcherek, Manuel F. C. Pereira, Manasij Pal Chowdhury, Francisca Alves Cardoso   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human occupation of the Afroalpine Bale Mountains at the onset of the African Humid Period. [PDF]

Landsc Ecol
Ossendorf G, Tekelemariam MG, Taipale N, Groos AR, Negash A, Cnuts D, Akçar N, Vockenhuber C, Tariku ZK, Kahsay TH, Rots V, Vogelsang R.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source