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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
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Evidencia paleoparasitológica de Ascaris lumbricoides en restos esqueletizados de época romana de Dianium (Alicante, España) [PDF]

open access: yesMunibe Antropologia-Arkeologia, 2022
El hallazgo de parásitos procedentes de contextos arqueológicos nos permite conocer las condiciones socio-económicas y los hábitos alimentarios de las poblaciones pasadas, aportando una visión novedosa en el estudio de dichas sociedades.
Ramón López-Gijón   +5 more
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Bioarchaeology of the human microbiome [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
From prehistory to the present, microbes have played a significant role in the development of human society and culture—from providing essential nutrients and protection through the microbiome, to shaping populations through infectious disease, to ...
Velsko, Irina M.   +3 more
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Showing That They Cared: An Introduction to Thinking, Theory and Practice in the Bioarchaeology of Care

open access: yes, 2020
Indicators of the lived experience of disease are frequently found in archaeologically recovered human remains. Where evidence suggests a period of survival with pathology likely to have compromised an individual’s ability to function independently, or ...
Tilley, Lorna
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Cranial Age Assessment and Cranial Pathology from the Mesolithic-Neolithic Inhabitants of the Danube Gorges, Serbia.

open access: yesJournal of Open Archaeology Data, 2015
The data-set described here comprises cranial pathology data and cranial age assessment for 113 individuals from four Mesolithic-Neolithic sites in the Danube Gorges, Serbia.
Marija Radović   +2 more
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Bioarchaeology and Mountain Landscapes in Transylvania’s Golden Quadrangle

open access: yes, 2020
The Apuseni Mountains of southwestern Transylvania (Romania) are home to the richest gold and copper deposits in Europe, key resources that fueled the development of social complexity during the Bronze Age (ca. 2700–800 B.C.E.).
Beck, Jess   +3 more
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What We Do for Food

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2022
Food is essential for survival, but how humans obtain and manage it is regulated socially. The life of Neolithic and other non-industrial communities depended on environmental variations – temperature patterns and precipitation. For farming communities,
Ana Đuričić
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The bioarchaeology of the Neolithic transition: evidence of dental pathologies at Lepenski Vir (Serbia)

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2013
The Neolithic transition affected human biology, which is visible as a series of inter- related skeletal and dental pathological conditions. The population of Lepenski vir culture, which inhabited the region of the Danube Gorges between 9500–5500 BC ...
Marija Radović, Sofija Stefanović
doaj   +1 more source

Animals between Nature and Culture: The Story of Archaeozoology

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2016
The paper aims to tell the story of archaeozoology and utilize it to point out changes in the perception of nature and culture, the perception of animals as organisms that belong entirely to the domain of nature (unlike people who ‘build’ culture onto ...
Ivana Živaljević
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Millet-based crop planting strategies in the Songhua River Region during the liaojin (907-1234 AD) dynasties: A case of the Luotong Mountain City site

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2022
IntroductionMillet-based dryland agriculture is the traditional mode of agricultural cultivation in northern China and has been of great significance to the emergence and development of Chinese civilization.
Chun Yang   +9 more
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