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Perspectives on Health: Working with Communities as Cultural Anthropologists and Bioarchaeologists

open access: yesEngaged Scholar Journal, 2020
   The anthropological study of health has always been an integral part of the discipline. With the development of cultural anthropology and physical anthropology (specifically, bioarchaeology) in the nineteenth century came different theories and ...
Samantha Purhcase
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Kom el-Dikka 2014: human bones from Area U [PDF]

open access: yesPolish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2017
Archaeological excavations of the medieval Islamic burial ground in the northern part of area U on the Kom el-Dikka site in Egyptian Alexandria, carried out from 2012 to 2014, yielded a total of 98 graves.
Robert Mahler, Urszula Okularczyk
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Childhood trauma: methods for the identification of physeal fractures in non-adult skeletal remains [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Objectives Today, fractures at the growth plate (or physis) are common injuries in children, but provide challenges of identification in skeletonized remains. Clinical studies provide detailed information on the mechanisms, locations, age of occurrence,
Baker   +61 more
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Landscape Archaeology of the Late La Tène in South Pannonia: Perspectives and Possibilities of Stable Isotope Analyses

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2017
In the long tradition of research into the La Tene period in the region of South Pannonia many questions have been raised, but economic activity, especially agriculture and cattle-breeding, have not received due attention.
Teodora Radišić
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Burials of Sugoklea Barrow. Palaeopathological Aspect of the Study

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2020
Introduction. The aim of the study is to identify the causes of differences in the diseases profile, as well as sex and age indicators of different groups of people of the Yamnaja and Babino cultures buried in Sugoklea barrow on the border of the steppe ...
Aleksandra D. Kozak
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MULTI-INSTRUMENTAL IDENTIFICATION OF ORPIMENT IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL MORTUARY CONTEXTS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Indexación: Web of Science; Scielo.This paper reports on an unknown yellowish mineral compound found in an archaeological context from Chorrillos cemetery (Calama, Chile) dating to the Early Formative period (800 - 200 B.C.).
ARRIAZA, BERNARDO   +6 more
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Surviving Childhood: The Relationship Between Childhood Health and Longevity in the Early Bronze Age Necropolises Mokrin and Ostojićevo (2100-1800 BC)

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi
The study of prehistoric societies requires a holistic approach to all segments of the population. Researchers agree that the period of growth and development is crucial for the life course, its quality, and duration.
Marija Krečković Gavrilović   +1 more
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New regression formula to estimate the prenatal crown formation time of human deciduous central incisors derived from a Roman imperial sample (Velia, Salerno, Italy, I-II cent. CE) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The characterization and quantification of human dental enamel microstructure, in both permanent and deciduous teeth, allows us to document crucial growth parameters and to identify stressful events, thus contributing to the reconstruction of the past ...
BONDIOLI, LUCA   +5 more
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Provenance Analysis Based on Cluster In‐Betweenness and Support Vector Machines: Identifying Migrant Candidates Using Multi‐Isotope Fingerprints

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Provenance reconstruction using strontium and lead stable isotopes can produce complex multidimensional fingerprints, challenging traditional methods. Identifying nonlocals, who migrated between sites, is a major task. Migrants are identifiable by divergent multi‐isotope fingerprints due to isotopic mixing between origin and destination sites.
Andrea Göhring   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The bioarchaeology of Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire: present and future perspectives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
The Anglo-Saxon period in Yorkshire - in terms of our knowledge of those questions which bioarchaeological studies are conventionally used to address - remains very much an unknown quantity, We can hardly claim even to know whether these questions are ...
Dobney, K., Hall, A., Kenward, H.
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