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Evaluation of Morphological and Osteometric Sex Estimation on Historical Skeletal Material of Subadult Individuals From Germany. [PDF]

open access: yesAm J Biol Anthropol
ABSTRACT Objectives While sex estimation based on morphological features of the adult skeleton is considered reliable, it proves to be challenging, especially in skeletons of subadults. The purpose of this study is to investigate the accuracy of sex estimation of the methods described below and errors within the observer and between observers ...
Behrendt CL   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Theoretical approaches to bioarchaeology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This chapter explores the development and integration of social theory in bioarchaeology from the perspective of the UK and France, and in relation to North America.
Rebecca Gowland   +3 more
core   +7 more sources

Morphometric analysis of Bronze Age funerary vessels from the necropolis of Mokrin

open access: yesStudia Praehistorica, 2023
Archaeologists commonly use subjective classifications to group ceramic vessels into different classes, but the usefulness of such tools for creating narratives about the past is seldom questioned.
Mihailo Radinović   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Emerging adolescence: current status and potential advances in bioarchaeology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Adolescence is marked by a wide range of biological, social, and neurological changes. Adolescents are stereotypically viewed as reckless, impulsive, and troubled, but research across the social and biomedical sciences are demonstrating that this is a ...
Lewis, Mary   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Pig Management Strategies in the East Liao River Basin From the Bronze Age (c. 2000–256 BC) to the Liaojin Dynasties (907–1234 AD): Stable Isotope Analysis of Animals at the Changshan Site, Jilin Province, China

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science, 2022
Pig domestication and management strategy has been increasingly discussed in recent years, focusing on the temporal-spatial differences of pig management strategies.
Xiaohong Lv   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Care of Infants in the Past: Bridging evolutionary anthropological and bioarchaeological approaches

open access: yesEvolutionary Human Sciences, 2020
The importance of care of infants and children in palaeoanthropological and human behavioural ecological research on the evolution of our species is evident in the diversity of research on human development, alloparental care, and learning and social ...
Siân Halcrow   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Concepts of the body and personhood in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges: interpreting animal remains from human burials

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2016
In recent years, humanities have brought forward the idea of non-human agency; either in the form of meanings bestowed upon objects, animals and natural phenomena, or through deconstruction of ontological differences between ‘people’ and ‘things’.
Ivana Živaljević
doaj   +5 more sources

Anthropologie biologique et archéologie : regards croisés ?

open access: yesArchéopages, 2012
The transformation from physical anthropology to bioarchaeology has followed a chaotic path. During the 1960s and 1970s, the discipline of physical anthropology undertook much soul-searching. From this questioning emerged an academic syllabus strongly in
Hervé Guy, Anne Richier
doaj   +1 more source

Becoming sedentary? The seasonality of food resource exploitation in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2016
In this paper, we investigate whether the Mesolithic-Neolithic sites in the Danube Gorges were occupied seasonally or all year round by looking at animal skeletal remains.
Vesna Dimitrijević   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of Medieval Mining upon the Environment of the Central Balkans

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2021
The paper examines the impact of medieval mining upon the environment, based upon the present state of the historiographical, archaeological, and geological research.
Mirko Vranić
doaj   +1 more source

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