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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Osteological analysis"”.
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Plague mortality and medieval demography: an osteological analysis of Black Death mass graves and attritional cemeteries from 7-16th century England and Wales
… repeatedly until the mid-17th century. Most osteological studies concerning medieval plague epidemiology focus on skeletons within mass graves, however many people killed by plague were buried within attritional cemeteries. The extent to which the inclusion of plague victims within …
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Dialogues with the dead : an osteological analysis of the palaeodemography and life history of the 18th and 19th century northern frontier in South Africa
Osteological, dental, and molecular analyses were conducted on remains from seven historical archaeological sites within South Africa. The emphasis was on the collection of lifestyle data for the purpose of adding to the unwritten history of indigenous South African peoples and to give voice to a …
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Orkney's first farmers. Reconstructing biographies from osteological analysis to gain insights into life and society in a Neolithic community on the edge of Atlantic Europe
… of the Neolithic, compounded by poor or cursory osteological reports. This project aimed to discover what Neolithic Orcadian life was like, arguing from skeletal evidence. Orkney¿s exceptional site preservation and large skeletal collections present opportunities for detailed analysis. The Orkney …
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Gibeon Revisited: An Integrated Approach to a Bioarchaeological Collection
… I addressed this through as complete of a basic osteological analysis as possible, given the state of the collection. This framework also joins the discussion on how museums choose to collect, store, and exchange skeletal material, a topic that remains highly relevant to the ethics of …
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Human skeletal asymmetry. A study of directional and fluctuating asymmetry in assessing health, environmental conditions, and social status in English populations from the 7th to the 19th centuries.
Asymmetry is a useful tool for osteological analysis as it detects disruptions in the developmental stability of osseous structures attributed to environmental and biomechanical environments. The primary aim of this study is to establish a baseline for normal levels of asymmetry in English …
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ACCURACY AND RELIABILITY IN SEX DETERMINATION USING THE OS COXA: A COMPARISON OF METRIC VS. PHENICE METHOD
… a repeatable basis. Previous experience in human osteological analysis was shown to have no effect on accuracy in this test using the Phenice method, confirming Phenice’s assertion that the technique does not require extensive experience to yield accurate results.
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Combining forensic anthropological and geological approaches to investigate the preservation of human remains in British archaeological populations and their effects on palaeodemography
… and subsequent influences deduced from the analysis of biological profiling data. The aim of this research was to produce the demographic profiles for the medieval sites of Poulton Chapel and St Owens, Gloucester. Comparisons with previously published sites would allow a comparison between …
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Buried identities: An osteological and archaeological analysis of burial variation and identity in Anglo-Saxon Norfolk
… of establishing biological identity through osteological analysis and in comparing biological identity with the funerary evidence. Burial practices were related to the biological identity of the deceased across the three periods and within the different site types, but the less common burial …
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Desenvolvimento larval de quatro espécies de Symphurus Rafinesque, 1810 (Osteichthyes, Cynoglossidae) e sua distribuição na costa sudeste/sul do Brasil (23ºS-29ºS)
Morphological and osteological development of four species of Symphurus larvae and juveniles are described, using the ichthyoplankton samples collected in the southeastern Brazilian Bight (from 23° S to 29° S). Larvae of four species are identified based on distribution pattern of pigments on the …
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More than bones. An investigation of life, death and diet in later prehistoric Slovenia and Croatia
… multidisciplinary, multi-scalar approach to the analysis of human remains aims to explore the evolving structure, homogeneity and heterogeneity of communities inhabiting central and eastern Slovenia, and north-eastern Croatia, during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age. The application of …
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More than bones. An investigation of life, death and diet in later prehistoric Slovenia and Croatia
… multidisciplinary, multi-scalar approach to the analysis of human remains aims to explore the evolving structure, homogeneity and heterogeneity of communities inhabiting central and eastern Slovenia, and north-eastern Croatia, during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age. The application of …