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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TROUBLE IN PARADISE? – VIOLENT CONFLICT IN FUNNEL‐BEAKER SOCIETIES
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 43-64, February 2021., 2021 Summary The archaeology of warfare and violent conflict has made many advances over the past three decades. However, the Funnel‐beaker Culture (TRB) is mostly absent from these discussions and the presence of warriors is assigned to the succeeding periods.
Christian Horn
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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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The application of amino acid racemization in the acid soluble fraction of enamel to the estimation of the age of human teeth [PDF]
, 2008 Estimation of age-at-death for skeletonised forensic remains is one of the most significant problems in forensic anthropology. The majority of existing morphological and histological techniques are highly inaccurate, and show a bias towards ...
Collins, M. J. +3 more
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Climate and Demography in Early Prehistory: Using Calibrated 14C Dates as Population Proxies [PDF]
, 2009 Although difficult to estimate for prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations, demographic variables—population size, density, and the connectedness of demes—are critical for a better understanding of the processes of material culture change, especially in ...
Riede, Felix
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Early Neolithic population dynamics in the Eastern Balkans and the Great Hungarian Plain
Documenta Praehistorica, 2017 In this study, we reconstruct population dynamics in the Early Neolithic of the Eastern Balkans and the Great Hungarian Plain using frequency of radiocarbon dates as a population proxy.
Tamara Blagojević +3 more
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The population of Tsarevskoe Gorodishche and its environs according to the paleopathology and paleodemography data [PDF]
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2022 The paper presents the analysis of paleopathological and demographic features of the population from the settlement of Tsarevskoe Gorodishche and its environs which is located in Leninsky District of the Volgograd Region.
Pererva E.V.
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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.
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Paleodemography: From archaeology and skeletal age estimation to life in the past [PDF]
American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 2021 AbstractMuch of paleodemography, an interdisciplinary field with strong ties to archaeology, among other disciplines, is oriented toward clarifying the life experiences of past people and why they changed over time. We focus on how human skeletons contribute to our understanding of preindustrial demographic regimes, including when changes took place ...
Jesper L. Boldsen +2 more
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Proceedings of the 91st Business Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists
, 2023 American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 181, Issue 3, Page 491-520, July 2023.
Sheela G. Athreya
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