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Evaluating osteological ageing from digital data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
YesAge at death estimation of human skeletal remains is one of the key issues in constructing a biological profile both in forensic and archaeological contexts. The traditional adult osteological methods evaluate macroscopically the morphological changes
Acsádi G   +9 more
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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

Verbal Autopsy Methods with Multiple Causes of Death [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Verbal autopsy procedures are widely used for estimating cause-specific mortality in areas without medical death certification. Data on symptoms reported by caregivers along with the cause of death are collected from a medical facility, and the cause-of ...
King, Gary, Lu, Ying
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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

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.
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +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
doaj   +1 more source

Sexual dimorphism of pelvic morphology variation in live humans [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This study represents the comparison of the morphology variation in different planes of female and male pelvis. Anthropological literature represents two different views of the pelvic morphology variation.
Kolesova, Oksana, Vētra, Janis
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A Revised Sex Assessment of the Epigravettian Human Remain ST1 from San Teodoro Cave (Messina, Sicily) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Bias in skeletal sexing is well known and depends upon the completeness of the skeletal remains. The problem is very hard concerning prehistorical remains.
Carotenuto, G.   +4 more
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Subsistence Strategies and Burial Rituals: Social Practices in the Late Deccan Chalcolithic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Shifts in subsistence strategies during the transition between Early Jorwe (1400-1000 B.C.) and Late Jorwe (1000-700 B.C.) periods of the western Deccan region of India have been the focus of much archaeological research. This article reviews the various
Raczek, Teresa P.
core   +1 more source

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