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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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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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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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Survivorship and the second epidemiological transition in industrial‐era London
American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 181, Issue 4, Page 646-652, August 2023., 2023 Survivorship curves with 95% confidence intervals for pre‐industrial versus industrial London. Abstract Objectives The second epidemiological transition describes a shift in predominant causes of death from infectious to degenerative (non‐communicable) diseases associated with the demographic transition from high to low levels of mortality and ...
Samantha L. Yaussy +2 more
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 150-163, January/February 2023., 2023 Abstract Accurate and precise age‐at‐death estimation methods are critical when studying past lifeways. However, adult age‐at‐death estimation is often difficult because of diverse physiologies, preservation, and timing of biological processes in target and reference populations. These challenges can complicate the comparison of results between studies,
Melissa A. Clark +4 more
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Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 36, Issue 8, Page 1279-1292, November 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT Loess is a main archive of Pleistocene landscapes and environments and therefore has an important connection to the preservation and interpretation of Paleolithic sites. In Europe, anthropogenic sites have been found in loess because of past local occupation.
Wei Chu, Janina J. Nett
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American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Volume 174, Issue 4, Page 595-613, April 2021., 2021 Bayesian methods for age categorization can augment skeletal data with additional knowledge. For small samples, as for Glinoe Scythians, the estimation errors remain high. Different prior assumptions help assess the impact of reference populations. Abstract Objectives Studies of the demography of past populations involving deterministic life tables can
Sylwia Łukasik +3 more
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The Female Mortality Advantage in the Seventeenth‐Century Rural Low Countries
Gender &History, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 50-74, March 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT Data from famines from the nineteenth century onward suggest that women hold a mortality advantage during times of acute malnutrition, while modern laboratory research suggests that women are more resilient to most pathogens causing epidemic diseases.
Daniel R. Curtis, Qijun Han
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Paleodemography of the Altyn-Asar burial grounds (concerning migrations in the Lower Syrdarya Basin) [PDF]
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2022 Jetyasar archaeological culture was discovered and studied by the Khorezm expedition of the Institute of Ethnography of USSR. According to archeological data, this culture experienced many times transformations due to the influx of new population groups.
Mednikova M.B. +3 more
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