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An Antemortem Malaligned Femoral Fracture in a Pre‐Colonial Southern African Hunter‐Gatherer/Herder

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Physical trauma has significant ramifications on a person's way of life depending on social structure and access to support. Understanding trauma for past people is valuable for assessing the impact of trauma on mobility, functionality, and social integration of individuals.
Siwaphiwe Mfengu, Calvin Gerald Mole, Victoria Elaine Gibbon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Toward an Investigation of Diversity and Cultivation of Rye (Secale cereale ssp. cereale L.) in Germany: Methodological Insights and First Results from Early Modern Plant Material

Agronomy, 2021
Rye (Secale cereale ssp. cereale L.) is a secondary domesticate, considered to have originated as a weed in wheat fields and to have developed traits of domestication by evolving similar physiological and morphological characteristics to those of wheat ...
Sofia Filatova, Benjamin Claassen, Guillermo Torres, Ben Krause-Kyora, Eva Holtgrewe Stukenbrock, Wiebke Kirleis   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prehistoric Babies In The (Bio)Archaeological Record

22nd Neolithic Seminar: Modelling the Processes of Neolithisation - Book of Abstracts, 2015
The whole evolution of human fertility is based only on indirect evidences, such as sites densities and paleodemographic reconstructions, and there is no evidence about number of babies born by prehistoric mothers. On those indirect evidences we have built one of the most important chapter of human evolution: people lived at the very low population ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Assessing Histotaphonomy: A Pilot Study Using Image Analysis for Quantitative Scoring of Bone Diagenesis

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This pilot study focusses on improving the methodological approach of histotaphonomy by integrating image analysis software for assessing bone diagenesis in both bone histological sections and microcomputed tomography (μ‐CT) scans of the same bone slice. Femurs and ribs from six individuals buried at the churchyard of St.
Lolita Trenchat, Nicolas Vanderesse, Eric Pubert, Yannick Lefrais, Katrien Van de Vijver, Sacha Kacki, Eline M. J. Schotsmans   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Openness as Visualization Technique for Interpretative Mapping of Airborne Lidar Derived Digital Terrain Models

Remote Sensing, 2013
Openness is proposed as a visualization technique for the archaeological interpretation of digital terrain models derived from airborne laser scanning.
Michael Doneus
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond the Jordan

Documenta Praehistorica, 2020
Recent excavations in Jordan have demonstrated a long sequence of development from the late Pleistocene Epipalaeolithic through the early Holocene Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
Bill Finlayson, Cheryl A. Makarewicz
doaj   +1 more source

Birds of Trade: Availability of Water Birds and Bird Products During Medieval and Early Modern Period in the Baltic Sea

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bird bones are generally scarce in zooarchaeological assemblages in the medieval and early modern period from Finland and Sweden. To obtain new information on bird products and the role of water birds in the Baltic Sea during this period, zooarchaeological assemblages and historical documents were studied from these two countries.
Hanna Kivikero
wiley   +1 more source

Secular Changes in Craniofacial Morphology Over the Last 2000 Years in Milan, Italy

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to analyze secular changes in craniofacial morphology over 2000 years in Milan, examining variations in cranial dimensions across historical periods and between sexes. It utilizes standard anthropometric techniques to provide insights into the evolution of craniofacial morphology within this urban population. The study includes
Lucie Biehler‐Gomez, Daniele Maria Gibelli, Lucrezia Rodella, Giorgio Manzi, Cristina Cattaneo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The prehistoric archaeology of Ireland

, 1998
The first edition of The Prehistoric Archaeology of Ireland was published by Galway University Press (now no more) in 1998. This comprehensive survey of Irish prehistory is still a useful work of reference. This is a proof copy of that edition containing some minor typographical errors and misalignment of endnotes. A second edition with a short preface
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Urban Consumption of Thrushes in the Early Roman City of Pollentia, Mallorca (Spain)

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the Roman city of Pollentia (Mallorca, Western Mediterranean), an exceptional zooarchaeological assemblage was recovered from a cesspit dated between the first century BC and the first century ad. The structure, situated in a commercial area adjacent to the forum, was connected to a food shop (taberna) via an underground drainage system ...
Alejandro Valenzuela
wiley   +1 more source