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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Paleolithic"”.
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Paleolithic pigments and processing
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 1983.
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The Middle and Upper Paleolithic in Romania
The European Paleolithic record, as it exists today, is known primarily from excavations and research conducted in Western Europe, more specifically, southwestern France. The Paleolithic record of Eastern Europe, however, is poorly understood, especially in light of current debates concerning the …
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A redefined feminine from paleolithic to twenty-first century through children's literature & film
<p>The intention of my critical discourse is to redefine the knowledge of the feminine that Western tradition, through “master narratives,” silenced, subverted, and deferred. My guidelines were drawn from the deconstruction of philosophical works by Jacques Derrida and redefined the unique circle …
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Healthy Satiety Effects of Paleolithic diet on Satiety and Risk factors for Cardiovascular disease
… effect of a hunter-gatherer diet (also called Paleolithic diet) compared to agrarian diet in prevention of CVD. In paper I we reviewed evidence from epidemiology and evolutionary biology for a possible maladaptation of human satiety hormone leptin to agrarian diet. We found that leptin …
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The middle to upper paleolithic transition in the Bukk Mountain region of central Europe
… reports on the issue of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in Central Europe, and focuses on the archeological evidence from Middle and early Upper Paleolithic sites in northeast Hungary and east Slovakia. Unlike most approaches to this issue in this part of the Old World, less …
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Health impacts and dietary composition of Paleolithic and Australian Guide to Healthy Eating Diets in Australia
The Paleolithic diet is promoted in Australia for improved gut health. However, it excludes grains and dairy, food groups that form part of the evidence-based Australian Guide to Healthy Eating (AGHE). While total dietary fibre intake can be maintained from consumption of vegetables, fruit and …
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A comparison of the impact of a heart-healthy diet versus paleolithic nutrition on hyperlipidemia in adults
<p>Paleolithic nutrition can optimize serum lipids in adults with hyperlipidemia who have been on a heart-healthy diet based on the current recommendations by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (the Academy) or the American Heart Association (AHA). Twenty subjects (10 male and 10 female) age 40 …
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The Biomechanics of Spear Throwing: An Analysis of the Effects of Anatomical Variation on Throwing Performance, with Implications for the Fossil Record
… the implications of the patterns observed for Paleolithic fossil hominins.</p><p>Throwing performance, measured as the energy imparted to a thrown object: kinetic energy, Ke), was assessed in 41 experienced throwers throwing balls and spear-like objects. Joint linear and angular velocities, …
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Il Gravettiano dell'Italia tirrenica nel contesto mediterraneo: definizione delle strategie di insediamento e mobilità attraverso lo studio delle materie prime e delle industrie litiche
… the second chrono-cultural complex of the Upper Paleolithic after the Aurignacian. The Gravettian diffusion, throughout Europe, took place in a short span of time between 30.000 and 20.000 years BP. During this period, the climate instability due to the LGM approach created different …
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Poiesis
… in art will be undertaken, beginning with Paleolithic cave art, continuing with Native American petroglyphs and pictographs, and concluding with three contemporary visual artists whose marks have influenced my work: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cy Twombly, and Susan Rothenberg. Finally, my …
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Inside, Outside, In-Between.
… gardening, borders and boundaries, parietal Paleolithic art and the art of the Abstract Expressionists, ritual, alchemy, time, liminality, and the influences of Michelle Stuart, Mary Frank, and Cai Guo-Qiang.</p>
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Le faune del Paleolitico medio-superiore in Nord Italia: nuovi dati archeozoologici dal Riparo Mochi e dal Riparo Tagliente
… research, the transition from the Middle Paleolithic (MP) to the Upper Paleolithic (UP) is widely debated and studied. During this period in Europe, the last Neanderthals were replaced by the first Anatomically Modern Humans (AMH). It is widely debated how and in what time frame this …
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Caratteristiche morfometriche della popolazione sarda dal Neolitico al XIX secolo: craniometria e statura
… populations of peninsular Italy and Europe, from Paleolithic to Modern period, have been also analysed to detect influences from and towards extra-Sardinian sources The analysis is based on multivariate techniques including R-Matrix analysis, principal coordinate analysis, discriminant functional …
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Objects and interiors
… with the imagery of goddesses from the ancient Paleolithic time period; a time when our society was matriarchal in nature and the goddess image contained both feminine and masculine attributes. In a sense, these objects become my goddess imagery. I use them as subjects because I feel able to …
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A new lease on life: using advanced analytical techniques in bioarchaeology to maximise a new understanding of past populations of Sardinia
… which goes from the first occupation in the Paleolithic (400000 – 120000 yo) till the early and classical antiquity (900 BC – 456 AC). Essential to understanding both the complexity and dynamicity of Sardinian cultural and biological landscape is the people themselves. The people of Sardinian …
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Alutiiq Engineering: The Mechanics and Design of Skeletal Technologies in Alaska's Kodiak Archipelago
… in many protohistoric contexts and the Upper Paleolithic of Eurasia.
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Image analysis in the morphological and morphometric study of teeth
… of Neanderthal and modern man of the upper Paleolithic era, specifically scanned in the paleoanthropology laboratory of the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA), in order to increase the paleoanthropological sample data and thereby make the final results of the analyses more …
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The Response of Antarctic Ice Streams to Tidal Forcing
… of subglacial sediments and the retreat rate of paleolithic ice sheets. Finally in chapter 7, I conclude and discuss future directions of this work.
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The Inhabited Arctic: Architecture, Time, and the Making of the Past in the Bering Strait (1760–1980)
… to the lineal, geological, eschatological, and paleolithic time that scaffolded imperial projects. Simultaneously, these material practices were vital sites for reinvention and identity, where Native nations built futures out of rupture. Illuminating how the ecological and epistemic limits to …
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Travertine from Egypt's Western Desert: a terrestrial record of North African paleohydrology and paleoclimate during the late Pleistocene
… deposits at Dahkla Oasis associated with paleolithic artifacts are 300-350 ka rather than ~130 ka. A comparison of travertine geochemistry with modern groundwater chemistry suggests that a consistent Nubian groundwater source has fed travertine deposition over the last half million years. …
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