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Considerations on a Guarani burial: alterations and ethnohistoric hypothesis

Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, 2000
During the curatorial treatment of the Guarani human bones, we observed several modifications as cutmarks, grooves, scratches, depressions and bum.
Silvia Cristina Piedade, André Luis R. Soares   +1 more
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Emergence of corpse cremation during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Southern Levant: A multidisciplinary study of a pyre-pit burial.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Renewed excavations at the Neolithic site of Beisamoun (Upper Jordan Valley, Israel) has resulted in the discovery of the earliest occurrence of an intentional cremation in the Near East directly dated to 7031-6700 cal BC (Pre-Pottery Neolithic C, also ...
Fanny Bocquentin, Marie Anton, Francesco Berna, Arlene Rosen, Hamoudi Khalaily, Harris Greenberg, Thomas C Hart, Omri Lernau, Liora Kolska Horwitz   +8 more
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Choosing my major: Anthropology

, 2019
By enrolling in the anthropology program at the University of Mississippi, you\u27ll study society and culture of the past and present. The four-field discipline includes archaeology, bioanthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology ...
University of Mississippi. College of Liberal Arts, York, Joe, University of Mississippi. Anthropology   +2 more
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The restitution of two Guanche mummies from Tenerife by Necochea (Argentina)

Journal of Biological Research, 2005
Two Guanche mummies from Tenerife along with a complete archaeological collection, were purchased by Argentinean businessmen at the end of the 19th century.
Conrado Rodríguez-Martín, Rafael González-Antón, Mercedes Martín Oval, Candelaria Rosario, Mercedes del Arco, Ricardo Guichón, Nora Flegenheimer   +6 more
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A Review of Rebecca Gibson’s Desire in the Age of Robots and AI: An Investigation in Science Fiction and Fact [PDF]

A review concerning Rebecca Gibson\u27s Desire in the Age of Robots and AI: An Investigation in Science Fiction and Fact, with insight into the way that Gibson discusses bioanthropology and technological advancements, as well as the gender binary and ...
Eleanor Barry
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Teeth of Royalty from a burial in Jera Lompo'E, South Sulawesi, Indonesia [PDF]

, 2018
Teeth are one of the key to understand disease and cultural influence in the past. This research describes abnormalities and cultural influences found in teeth belongs to Addatuang Sidenreng which is a royalty buried in Jera Lompo'E, South Sulawesi ...
Rahmawati, Neni Trilusiana, Rusyad Adi Suriyanto, Neni Trilusiana Rahmawati, Suriyanto, Rusyad Adi, Ashwin Prayudi, Prayudi, Ashwin   +5 more
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Late Upper Palaeolithic ornaments from Vlakno cave, Croatia

Documenta Praehistorica
This paper presents the richest prehistoric assemblage of ornaments in the Eastern Adriatic discovered to date, found in the Late Upper Palaeolithic layers of Vlakno cave, Croatia.
Barbara Cvitkušić, Emanuela Cristiani, Dario Vujević   +2 more
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Humans, Technology, and Environment in the Early Peopling of South America

, 2019
This special issue includes papers about the early settlement of South America. New evidence based on taphonomy, technology, bioanthropology, environment, subsistence strategies, and settlement patterns are presented for several regions of the Andes and ...
Franco, Nora Viviana, Flegenheimer, Nora, Hoguin, Rodolphe Gregory   +2 more
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Differences in types of artificial cranial deformation are related to differences in frequencies of cranial and oral health markers in pre-Columbian skulls from Peru

Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2014
Artificial cranial deformation is a cultural practice that modifies the shape of the skull during the early infancy. It is not related to rites of passage, but to different social status in a group.
Mercedes Okumura
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From Thing to Relation: Gregory Bateson's Bioanthropology

, 2008
The rapid increase in our technological mastering of more and more intimate and everyday aspects of life has created an acute sensitivity towards the huge lacunas left over by rational knowledge and technology.
Hoffmeyer, Jesper
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