More Than Childbirth: Unveiling the Risks of Marriage on Women's Mortality in Tang Dynasty China. [PDF]
Am J Hum BiolABSTRACT Objectives This study investigates how marital and maternal statuses influenced female mortality in the Tang Dynasty (618–907 ce), China. It challenges the focus on reproductive risks by exploring both biological and social factors affecting female mortality in reproductive and post‐reproductive years.
Liu Y.
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Assessing Biological Mortality Bias From Deciduous Tooth Emergence. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT Objectives Traits found in a skeletal sample are frequently used to infer qualities of the living population from which the skeletons were drawn. However, traits observed in a mortality sample may exhibit biological mortality bias in that they may not accurately represent the same traits in the living sample.
Holman DJ, Dolinski CJ.
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Differential Mortality Trends at the Intersection of Climate Change and Urban Growth From 13th to 18th Century Berlin. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT Objectives The purpose of this study is to evaluate differences in adult mortality risk at the intersection of climate change and urbanization between late medieval (c. 1200–1500) and early modern (c. 1500–1800) Berlin. After the founding of the city in c.
Brennan EJ.
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On the Paleodemography of Pyany Bor Culture [PDF]
Поволжская археология, 2019 The paper outlines data for the reconstruction of paleodemographic structure of the Pyany Bor culture. Totally three samples (Novo-Sasykul, Oshki cemeteries and Nyrgynda stage burials of Tarasovo burial ground), including skeletal remains of 465 ...
Kufterin Vladimir V. +1 more
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Applicability, reliability, and accuracy of age-at-death estimation methods on a contemporary Italian population. [PDF]
J Forensic SciAbstract This research tested the applicability, intra‐ and inter‐observer reliability, and accuracy of nine macroscopic methods for estimating age‐at‐death from skeletal elements. The sample included 400 individuals from the contemporary CAL Milano Cemetery Skeletal Collection, equally divided by sex assigned at birth and with age‐at‐death ranging ...
Morandini P +2 more
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A multilevel analytical framework for studying cultural evolution in prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies. [PDF]
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc, 2020 ABSTRACT Over the past decade, a major debate has taken place on the underpinnings of cultural changes in human societies. A growing array of evidence in behavioural and evolutionary biology has revealed that social connectivity among populations and within them affects, and is affected by, culture. Yet the interplay between prehistoric hunter–gatherer
Romano V +2 more
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Effectiveness of decontamination protocols when analyzing ancient DNA preserved in dental calculus. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2021 Ancient DNA analysis of human oral microbial communities within calcified dental plaque (calculus) has revealed key insights into human health, paleodemography, and cultural behaviors.
Farrer AG +5 more
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A geometric morphometrics approach to sex estimation of infants from 0 to 6 years using the auricular surface. [PDF]
Sci RepEstimating 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 ...
Simão P, Garcia SJ, Godinho RM.
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Occurrence of metopism in dry crania of adult brazilians. [PDF]
ISRN Anat, 2013 The metopic suture is located between the tubercles of the frontal bone. There are divergences regarding the exact time at which it closes, which ranges from the first to the tenth year of life, although it may persist into adulthood. This study was conducted on 134 dry crania from adult Brazilians, of which 95 were male and 39 were female.
da Silva Ido N +5 more
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Practitioner preferences in the analysis of cremation deposits in archaeology and biological anthropology: An overview of current osteoarchaeological practices with a focus on sex estimation. [PDF]
PLoS OneOsteological data, such as biological sex, constitute a base for research in paleodemography and palaeopathology, as well as for understanding past socio-cultural practices.
Hlad M +6 more
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