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Paleodemographic Study of the Annunciation Monastery’s Necropolis in Astrakhan
Археология евразийских степей, 2023 As a result of archaeological studies, a large series of anthropological material was obtained, which made it possible to characterize in detail the characteristics of the Russian Astrakhan population in the XVI–XX centuries.
Svetlana B. Borutskaya +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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The medieval cemetery outside the eastern gate of Gamizgrad (Felix Romuliana): A paleodemographic interpretation [PDF]
Balcanica, 2008 The medieval cemetery was archaeologically investigated between 1981 and 1992. It consisted of 91 graves containing 95 anthropologically identified skeletons.
Mikić Živko
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La población altomedieval de Sta. María de Tejuela (Bozoó, Burgos). Notas paleodemográficas [PDF]
Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia, 2020 Se analizan los datos que proporciona el estudio antropológico y arqueológico del cementerio altomedieval de Santa María de Tejuela (Bozoó, Burgos) que pueden aportar alguna información sobre aspectos paleodemográficos.
Sylvia A. Jiménez-Broeil +3 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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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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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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