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Reconstructing prehistoric demography: What role for extant hunter‐gatherers?
Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 29, Issue 6, Page 332-345, November/December 2020., 2020 Abstract Demography is central to biological, behavioral, and cultural evolution. Knowledge of the demography of prehistoric populations of both Homo sapiens and earlier members of the genus Homo is, therefore, key to the study of human evolution.
Abigail E. Page, Jennifer C. French
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Простір в історичних дослідженнях, 2023 Запропонована стаття присвячена оцінці структури землекористування та демографічної ситуації на Криворіжжі за часів енеоліту–доби бронзи на основі картографування давніх курганів. Як джерело даних про просторове розташування використано триверстову карту
Микита Іванов
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 206-217, March/April 2020., 2020 Abstract Age estimation of adult skeletal remains is notoriously difficult because the degenerative change of adult skeletons is far more variable across individuals, populations, and anatomical regions than the developmental changes that occur during growth.
Melissa A. Clark +2 more
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Urban and rural mortality and survival in Medieval England
Annals of Human Biology, 2017 Background: Late medieval England underwent intensive urbanisation, particularly in its largest city: London. Urban dwellers were exposed to factors such as high population density, elevated risk of infection, unsanitary living conditions and precarious ...
Brittany S. Walter, Sharon N. DeWitte
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Los estudios paleodemográficos en México
Revista Argentina de Antropología Biológica, 2010 RESUMEN: La paleodemografía es una línea de investigación relativamente reciente, que nos ha permitido ir más allá de la información osteológica. La inclusión de técnicas propias de la Demografía, plantea algunos problemas de índole metodológico, en su ...
Patricia O. Hernández Espinoza
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Reconstitution of the main demographic indices of the population exhumed from the mediaeval cemetery of Lozova (xivth-xvth centuries [PDF]
Memoirs of the Scientific Sections of the Romanian Academy, 2013 The scope of the present study was the demographic reconstitution of the population exhumed in the years 2010-2011 from the mediaeval cemetery of Lozova (Străşeni district, Republic of Moldova), belonging to the XIVth –XVth centuries. More than that, the
Angela Simalcsik +2 more
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The Accuracy of Age Estimation Using Transition Analysis in the Hamann-Todd Collection [PDF]
, 2020 Trying to reconstruct the demographic parameters of past populations using skeletal data is challenging for several reasons. First, skeletal traits are proxy to biological age, which does not always reflect chronological age.
Simon, Allyson
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The ethnographic region of Miankal as part of the Big Sogd
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2018 This article characterizes extensive craniological and osteological materials from Miankal, the site located in the Samarkand region, the central part of the Big Sogd.
Khodzhayov T.K., Khodzhayova G.K.
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Paleodemography of the Late Iron Age Cemetery from Fântânele–Dealul Iuşului, Transylvania
Acta Archaeologica Carpathica, 2022 In the Late Iron Age biritual cemetery from Fântânele-Dealul Iuşului / La Gâţa the remains of 43 individuals from 41 graves have been excavated to this day.
Sándor Berecki +2 more
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The (mis)use of adult age estimates in osteology. [PDF]
, 2015 yesContext: Adult age-at-death is presented in a number of different ways by anthropologists. Ordinal categories predominate in osteoarchaeology, but do not reflect individual variation in ageing, with too many adults being classified as ‘middle adults’.
Buckberry, Jo
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