Do nuclear DNA and dental nonmetric data produce similar reconstructions of regional population history? An example from modern coastal Kenya [PDF]
, 2015 This study investigates whether variants in dental morphology and nuclear DNA provide similar patterns of intergroup affinity among regional populations using biological distance (biodistance) estimates.
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A Bioarchaeological Approach to Social Transition in the Pre-Hispanic Andes: A Diachronic Study of Health at Tumilaca la Chimba, Peru [PDF]
, 2017 This thesis investigates the relationship between long-term, macro-scale social change and systemic stress by analyzing osteological data from two occupations at the archaeological site of Tumilaca la Chimba, Peru.
Lowman, Shannon A
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Labor and the Rise of the Tiwanaku State (AD 500-1100): A Bioarchaeological Study of Activity Patterns [PDF]
, 2013 This dissertation focused on understanding labor during the development of Tiwanaku (AD 500-1100), one of the earliest Andean states. Prior archaeological research (Kolata 1991, 1993a, b; Stanish 1994, 2003) argued that Tiwanaku labor was centralized ...
Becker, Sara K.
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Identity and Value in Food Preparation [PDF]
, 2015 How do daily meals resemble larger feast gatherings? In many cultures every act associated with food is filled with meaning and sanctity. Feasts usually feed more people than daily household meals, and by their scale, gain centrifugal meanings.
Hastorf, Christine A.
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The Rise and Fall of Wiñaymarka: Rethinking Cultural and Environmental Interactions in the Southern Basin of Lake Titicaca [PDF]
, 2021 Investigations of how past human societies managed during times of major climate change can inform our understanding of potential human responses to ongoing environmental change.
Baker, Paul A. +6 more
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1000 years of population, warfare, and climate change in pre-Columbian societies of the Central Andes. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Lima M +4 more
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The date of the earliest pottery in the Southern Andes: a macroregional perspective based on bayesian models [PDF]
, 2017 La cerámica más temprana marca un hito en la historia humana de los Andes del sur. Este trabajo propone una aproximación de la edad de la cerámica más temprana mediante modelos cronológicos basados en la estadística bayesiana.
Marsh, Erik Johnson
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Holocene variations in Lake Titicaca water level and their implications for sociopolitical developments in the central Andes. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Guédron S +9 more
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"Otros-maíces": trayectorias y transformaciones culinarias del maíz en Ambato (Catamarca, Noroeste Argentino) [PDF]
, 2014 This paper describes and analyzes the paths and culinary transformations of maize in domestic contexts at Ambato (Catamarca, northwest Argentina), during 6th-11th centuries, from the study of different types of archaeological remains.
Pazzarelli, Francisco
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Quinoa, potatoes, and llamas fueled emergent social complexity in the Lake Titicaca Basin of the Andes. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2021 Miller MJ +5 more
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