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Shoreline Displacement, Coastal Environments and Human Subsistence in the Hanö Bay Region during The Mesolithic

Quaternary, 2019
Southern Scandinavia experienced significant environmental changes during the early Holocene. Shoreline displacement reconstructions and results from several zooarchaeological studies were used to describe the environmental changes and the associated ...
Anton Hansson, Adam Boethius, Dan Hammarlund, Per Lagerås, Ola Magnell, Björn Nilsson, Anette Nilsson Brunlid, Mats Rundgren   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Earliest evidence of sedentism in the Antilles: Multiple isotope data from Canímar Abajo, Cuba

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Significance The first peoples of the insular Caribbean were traditionally depicted as hunter/fisher–gatherer societies with high residential mobility.
Yadira Chinique de Armas, Silvia Teresita Hernández Godoy, Luis M Viera Sanfiel, W. Buhay, Jason E. Laffoon   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Graman Revisited Once Again: A Reanalysis of the Late Holocene Legacy Faunal Assemblage From GB4 Rockshelter, New South Wales

Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 61, Issue 1, Page 199-220, April 2026.
ABSTRACT The archaeological site Graman B4 provided one of the first records of substantial dietary change in ancient Australian Aboriginal society. Initial examination of the faunal remains from this site suggested that Late Holocene hunters reduced their focus on high‐ranked kangaroos to increasingly rely on arboreal possums; and that these ...
Loukas George Koungoulos, Jane Balme, Sue O'Connor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perspectives on Southwestern Prehistory, edited by Paul B. Minins and Charles L. Redman, Westview Press, Boulder

Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 1992
This volume contains 23 papers by 41 contributors, divided into 5 sections: Hunters and Gatherers; Transitions to Sedentism; Elites and Regional Systems; Protohistoric Period: Transitions to History; and History of Southwestern ...
Jonathan E. Reyman
doaj   +1 more source

O12 Early-onset obesity is associated to birth weight, sedentary habits and the components of the pediatric metabolic syndrome

Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Diabetes, 2020
Introduction: Obesity complications appear early in children. Their frequency varies with the severity of the body fat accumulation and its distribution.
Zelmira Guntsche, Cecilia Miorin, María Julieta Pomilio, Federico Breyer, Laura Cestino, Fernando Saravi   +5 more
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Homo sapiens, industrialisation and the environmental mismatch hypothesis

Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 2, Page 580-601, April 2026.
ABSTRACT For the vast majority of the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, a range of natural environments defined the parameters within which selection shaped human biology. Although human‐induced alterations to the terrestrial biosphere have been evident for over 10,000 years, the pace and scale of change has accelerated dramatically since the onset
Daniel P. Longman, Colin N. Shaw
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying post-marital residence patterns in prehistory: A phylogenetic comparative analysis of dwelling size.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Post-marital residence patterns are an important aspect of human social organization. However, identifying such patterns in prehistoric societies is challenging since they leave almost no direct traces in archaeological records.
Václav Hrnčíř, Pavel Duda, Gabriel Šaffa, Petr Květina, Jan Zrzavý   +4 more
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Entwined economies of violence: understanding borderland conflict and resource politics in northern Kenya

Disasters, Volume 50, Issue 2, April 2026.
Abstract This article explores longstanding conflict between Turkana and Pokot pastoralist communities in northern Kenya, close to the country's border with Uganda. Conflict in this region has consistently defied interventions by both governments and development organisations.
Daniel Salau Rogei
wiley   +1 more source

Grinding en route to sedentism: Plant processing in the 8 ka-BP southern Mongolian Plateau, China

The Holocene
Plant food exploitation has long been considered one of the most significant windows to understanding the process of sedentism. Two early Neolithic sites, Yumin (ca. 8,400-7,600 cal BP) and Simagou (ca.
Yahui He, Li Liu, Xiaonong Hu, Xingcan Chen   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

New Geoarchaeological Evidence for Long‐Distance Chert Procurement in the Neolithic Western Balkans: The Gorjani Assemblage (Croatia)

Geoarchaeology, Volume 41, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT This study presents a preliminary provenance investigation of chert artifacts from the Neolithic site of Gorjani in Slavonia (eastern Croatia), aiming to assess the existence of long‐distance procurement or exchange networks in the western Balkans.
Petros Chatzimpaloglou, Rajna Šošić Klindžić   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source