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The intersectional effects of sex and socioeconomic status on risk of mortality in industrializing England

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 185, Issue 3, November 2024.
Abstract Objectives Intersectionality posits that multiple levels of marginalization interact to produce patterns of frailty and mortality, both today and in the past. To investigate how mortality during industrialization was selective with respect to sex and socioeconomic status (SES), this study analyzes data from four burial grounds dated to the ...
Samantha L. Yaussy
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of aging method on the age-at-death distribution: a case of medieval Staraya Ladoga skeletal sample [PDF]

open access: yesВестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии
The problem of estimating age-at-death structures using different methods is examined through the medieval skeletal sample from Staraya Ladoga. A comparative analysis of age estimates obtained using traditional age determination methods and a new method ...
Shirobokov I.G., Pavlova M.S.
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“Heal the sick”: Health status and caregiving during the 17th–18th century in Northern Italy (St. Biagio cemetery, Ravenna)

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 183, Issue 1, Page 125-140, January 2024.
Abstract Objective The study of health‐related care provision in archeology gives important indications on the culture and community organization of past populations. This study aims to assess the health status of the skeletal assemblage recovered from the burial site of St. Biagio (Ravenna, 17th–18th Centuries); next, we identified likely instances of
Federica De Luca   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estudio osteoarqueológico de un cementerio medieval: el caso de San Esteban de Beriáin (Navarra) [PDF]

open access: yesMunibe Antropologia-Arkeologia
En el presente artículo se exponen algunos de los resultados obtenidos del estudio osteoarqueológico del cementerio medieval de San Esteban de Beriáin (Navarra).
Iraia Sáez de la Fuente López
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Population of Viminacium during the Migration Period: Segment without artificially deformed skulls [PDF]

open access: yesStarinar, 2015
In the 1980s, at the site of Viminacium - Više Grobalja, 31 artificially deformed skulls were discovered at the necropolis ascribed to the Gepids. These skulls attracted much attention from anthropologists as they represent the largest series of
Mikić Ilija
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PALEODEMOGRAPHY AND ITS BASIC CONCEPTS.

open access: yes, 2023
This article provides information on paleodemography and its basic concepts.
openaire   +2 more sources

THE PALEODEMOGRAPHIC PATTERN OF OYLUM HOYUK POPULATION (THE MIDDLE BRONZE AGE, KİLİS)

open access: yesZeitschrift für die Welt der Türken, 2013
In this study skeleton remaining of 72 individuals excavated from Middle Bronze Age layers of Oylum Höyük (mound) situated in Kilis province, were studied.
Ayşen Açıkkol Yıldırım
doaj  

Paleodemography and statistics: a tale of uncertainty

open access: yes, 2021
Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel pioneered statistical methods to estimate the age structure of adults in a skeletal population. He was at the forefront of all the major advances: from calculating the estimate’s precision (he introduced the recent bootstrap technique into palaeodemography) to the estimate’s adaptation to an age classe number greater than the ...
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Human niche construction and population growth in pre-Columbian Amazonia

open access: yesArchaeology International, 2017
The use of Niche Construction Theory in archaeological research demands that we establish empirically how human-constructed niches acted as legacies that shaped the selection pressures affecting past human populations.
Manuel Arroyo-Kalin
doaj   +1 more source

Prediction of facial height, width, and ratio from thumbprints ridge count and its possible applications

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Science and Medicine, 2017
The fingerprints and face recognition are two biometric processes that comprise methods for uniquely recognizing humans based on certain number of intrinsic physical or behavioral traits. The objectives of the study were to predict the facial height (FH),
Lawan Hassan Adamu   +4 more
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