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A geometric morphometrics approach to sex estimation of infants from 0 to 6 years using the auricular surface [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Estimating biological sex is an essential tool for studying past population dynamics and cultural behaviour. Typically, it is not performed in non-adults before the onset of puberty, limiting the knowledge that can be gained from immature skeletal ...
Patrícia Simão, Susana J. Garcia, Ricardo Miguel Godinho   +2 more
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Primary Canine Hypoplasia in African American and Indonesian Children: Prevalence, Expression and Tooth Size. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
Primary canine hypoplasia is more frequent in stressed African American Gullah (12.7% teeth, 33.0% individuals) than in middle class Malay of Indonesia (3.1% teeth, 11.4% individuals). Hypoplastic defects are larger and more severe in Gullah than in Malay, confirming this defect is associated with socio‐economic status.
Lukacs JR.
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Toward a Biocultural Synthesis of the Peopling of the Americas: Introduction to the Special Issue. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
ABSTRACT This article introduces the special issue Toward a Biocultural Synthesis of the Peopling of the Americas, which brings together contributions that explore the origins and diversity of Indigenous populations across North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean. The volume grew out of an invited symposium held at the 90th Annual Meeting of
Menéndez LP, Hubbe M.
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Linking infant size and early growth with maternal lifestyle and breastfeeding – the first year of life in the CRIBS cohort

Annals of Human Biology, 2023
Background Every third child in Croatia is classed as overweight or obese. Infant growth can represent early warning signs for obesity. Aim To detect early risk factors for obesity by investigating infant size and early growth trajectories and their ...
Jelena Šarac, Dubravka Havaš Auguštin, Iva Šunić, Mario Lovrić, Natalija Novokmet, Sanja Musić Milanović, Lawrence M. Schell, Saša Missoni   +7 more
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Cemetery Relocations in Hidroituango: An Interdisciplinary Study [PDF]

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2022
This study realized the exhumation and transfer of human remains buried in the cemeteries at Orobajo, Barbacoas and La Fortuna (Municipality of Sabanalarga, Peque and Buriticá respectively) within the framework of “Social Management” of the Ituango ...
TIMISAY M. VARGAS, CECILIA L. URIBE, SANTIAGO V. BEDOYA, MARY LUZ Q. ZAPATA, SANTIAGO A. CARDONA-GALLO   +4 more
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Human, Animal, or Mineral? Ethical Considerations for Studies of Fossilized Hominin Remains. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
ABSTRACT Ethical considerations around research and education with modern human subjects, use of human tissue, and studies involving humans are ubiquitous within the global scientific community. This commentary explores considerations around how and whether these types of ethical considerations may apply to hominin fossils.
Champney TH, Smith HF, Hildebrandt S, Cornwall J.   +3 more
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First bioanthropological evidence for Yamnaya horsemanship

Science Advances, 2023
The origins of horseback riding remain elusive. Scientific studies show that horses were kept for their milk ~3500 to 3000 BCE, widely accepted as indicating domestication. However, this does not confirm them to be ridden. Equipment used by early riders is rarely preserved, and the reliability of equine dental and mandibular pathologies remains ...
Trautmann, Martin, Frînculeasa, Alin, Preda-Bălănică, Bianca, Petruneac, Marta, Focşǎneanu, Marin, Alexandrov, Stefan, Atanassova, Nadezhda, Włodarczak, Piotr, Podsiadło, Michał, Dani, János, Bereczki, Zsolt, Hajdu, Tamás, Băjenaru, Radu, Ioniță, Adrian, Măgureanu, Andrei, Măgureanu, Despina, Popescu, Anca-Diana, Sârbu, Dorin, Vasile, Gabriel, Anthony, David, Heyd, Volker   +20 more
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Visual inventories and field note templates for contextualised recording of human remains

Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2021
This short note is a presentation of seven new visual inventory sheets and five new standardised field note sheets posted on open access. Compared to those currently used in France, our protocols have the advantage of being written in English, for those ...
Fanny Bocquentin, Marie Anton
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Archaeological excavations at Lungi Tepa, south Uzbekistan. Preliminary Report for Season 2019 [PDF]

Studia Hercynia, 2021
This report summarises the preliminary results of the first season of excavations at the site of Lungi Tepa in the Kugitang Piedmonts, south Uzbekistan.
Ladislav Damašek , Rebecca Kinaston , Robyn Kramer, Markéta Šmolková , Daniel Pilař, Shapulat Shaydullaev, Ladislav Stančo   +6 more
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Exploring Adult Age-at-Death Research in Anthropology: Bibliometric Mapping and Content Analysis

Forensic Sciences, 2023
Although there are known limited skeletal traits that can be used to estimate age-at-death, an increasing body of literature is addressing this topic. This is particularly true in journals dedicated to forensic anthropology and past population studies ...
Vanessa Campanacho, Francisca Alves-Cardoso   +1 more
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