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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
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]
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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TROUBLE IN PARADISE? – VIOLENT CONFLICT IN FUNNEL‐BEAKER SOCIETIES
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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The population of Tsarevskoe Gorodishche and its environs according to the paleopathology and paleodemography data [PDF]
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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A selective approach to human age estimation: a case study of cranial suture closure methods [PDF]
Age estimation of skeletal remains is often biased due to differences between the age structure of the target sample and that of the reference population on which a particular method is based.
Shirobokov I.G.
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One of the current trends in archaeological geoinformatics in Russia is the creation of web mapping portals that integrate spatial and thematic data on the given areas of concentration of archaeological sites.
О.Ю. Зимина +2 more
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Introduction. The article discusses the demographic characteristics of the population of the Crimean Tatar village of Karmysh-Kelechi of the 16th – 18th centuries based on the materials of Fontan-1 burial ground. Methods and materials.
Aleksandr R. Popov
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Proceedings of the 91st Business Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists
American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 181, Issue 3, Page 491-520, July 2023.
Sheela G. Athreya
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Presenting the AfriArch Isotopic Database
AfriArch is an archaeological and paleoenvironmental data community designed to integrate datasets related to human-environmental interactions in Holocene Africa.
Steven Goldstein +13 more
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