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Different Human–Dog Interactions in Early Agricultural Societies of China, Revealed by Coprolite

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021
Dogs served in a variety of capacities in prehistory. After their domestication in Paleolithic hunter-gatherer societies, the emergence of agriculture shifted their partnerships with people.
Yunan Zhang, Yunan Zhang, Guoping Sun, Dong Zhang, Xiaoyan Yang, Xiaohong Wu   +5 more
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Subsistence-level groups experiencing lifestyle change are a potential model for uncovering GxE interactions.

, 2023
(A) Subsistence-level groups faced with urbanization, market integration, and modernization experience extreme variation in diet and physical activity levels, pathogen and toxin exposures, and social conditions.
Christopher D. Golden (7431806), Samuel S. Urlacher (9192894), Ian J. Wallace (16965092), Daniel E. Lieberman (16965095), Donald Mogoi (16965089), Andrew G. Clark (8569380), Julien F. Ayroles (10580370), Andrew W. Dahl (9243673), Dino J. Martins (3641653), Thomas S. Kraft (3255267), Päivi Pajukanta (62537), Herman Pontzer (148534), Michael Gurven (112946), Angela R. Garcia (9359202), George H. Perry (8039960), Benjamin C. Trumble (9359199), Vivek V. Venkataraman (5098868), Orrin Devinsky (356636), Yvonne A. L. Lim (8129274), Amanda J. Lea (11790137), Joseph Kamau (218679)   +20 more
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Traditional Knowledge About Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) in East Greenland: Changes in the Catch and Climate Over Two Decades

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018
In Greenland, polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are nutritional, economic, and cultural subsistence resources for Inuit. Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) collected from subsistence hunters can provide important insights and improve management decisions
Kristin L. Laidre, Allison D. Northey, Fernando Ugarte   +2 more
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Vývoj interakce přírodního prostředí a subsistenční strategie raně středověké společnosti: Pohansko u Břeclavi a okolí

Archeologické Rozhledy, 2020
Multidisciplinární výzkum založený na korelaci a interpretaci dat získaných archeologickými a přírodovědnými metodami. Hlavním cílem je rekonstrukce interakce faktorů životního prostředí a životních podmínek lidských komunit od 6. do počátku 12. století.
Nela Doláková, Petr Kočár, Petr Dresler, Gabriela Dreslerová, Romana Kočárová, Martin Ivanov, Slavomír Nehyba   +6 more
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A Yup'ik dance mask from the early‐1900s connects Indigenous tradition and shorebird conservation

People and Nature
A dance mask from the early 1900s reveals connections between Yup'ik people of western Alaska and shorebirds as well as their shared struggle to thrive in the modern world.
Liliana C. Naves
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Assessment of a pragmatic strategy to improve health of kacang goats in subsistence agricultural communities in Indonesian Borneo

Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics, 2019
Poverty limits options available to smallholder, subsistence farmers to prevent or reverse livestock malnutrition and endoparasitism, two of the global drivers of goat morbidity and mortality in resource-constrained, tropical, agricultural communities ...
Jeffrey D. Wyatt, Andrew N. Winterborn, Ibu Setiawati, Yusuf Muhammad   +3 more
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Early to Middle Holocene Estuarine Shellfish Collecting on the Islands and Mainland Coast of the Santa Barbara Channel, California, USA

Open Quaternary, 2020
Terminal Pleistocene to Middle Holocene sea level rise resulted in a number of changes to coastal ecosystems around the world, providing new challenges and opportunities for coastal peoples.
Torben C. Rick
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Utility functions, future consumption targets and subsistence thresholds [PDF]

If the consumers risk aversion behavior varies intertemporally and if the risk aversion coefficient on future consumption becomes very large, the consumer tends to aim at a fixed future consumption target.
Brishti Guha, Ashok Guha
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Land use patterns and climate change—a modeled scenario of the Late Bronze Age in Southern Greece

Environmental Research Letters, 2019
In this study, we present a modeling approach that investigates how much cultivable land was required to supply a society and whether societies were in need when environmental conditions deteriorated.
Daniel Knitter, Gerrit Günther, Wolfgang Berengar Hamer, Torben Keßler, Joana Seguin, Ingmar Unkel, Erika Weiberg, Rainer Duttmann, Oliver Nakoinz   +8 more
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Cash crop or food crop? socioeconomic and geopolitical factors affecting smallholder farmer crop selection in times of crisis in southwestern Tajikistan

Frontiers in Agronomy, 2023
Tajikistan's agricultural sector, primarily dominated by cotton cultivation, has experienced significant changes since the Soviet era. Although farmers introduced food crops into agricultural production to ensure food security after the collapse of the ...
Aksana Zakirova, Aksana Zakirova, Henryk Alff, Matthias Schmidt   +3 more
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