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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"transition to agriculture"”.
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Infusion cuisine: a study of the value of foods in a pottery context across the transition to agriculture in the southern Baltic
… and Early Neolithic, as domesticates began to be incorporated into culinary use. It is argued that although residues are not a reflection of the economy, there were diverse values to food that contributed to the sequence that domesticates appear in the archaeological record, as well as the …
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The Agricultural Transition in Upper Nubia: An Analysis of Mandibular Morphology and Oral Health
… the biological and morphological effect of the transition to agriculture varied widely by population and geographical region. In Upper Nubia, the shift to full-scale agriculture included transitional phases with varying dependence on pastoralism and farming, alongside continued hunting and …
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Changes in Osteoarthritis of the Elbow and Shoulder Joints in Women when Trasitioning from Hunting and Gathering to an Agricultural Subsistence
… of physical anthropologists who are trying to explain a culture's everyday activity. These types of changes, including arthritic and musculoskeletal, are based on subjective observation of the researcher and therefore subject to observer error. I used three samples; the Indian Knoll sample, …
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Changes in Osteoarthritis of the Elbow and Shoulder Joints in Women when Trasitioning from Hunting and Gathering to an Agricultural Subsistence
… of physical anthropologists who are trying to explain a culture's everyday activity. These types of changes, including arthritic and musculoskeletal, are based on subjective observation of the researcher and therefore subject to observer error. I used three samples; the Indian Knoll sample, …
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The Crooked Lakes Reserves: A Study of Indian Policy in Practice from the Qu'appelle Treaty to 1900
… implemented in one agency in the North—West Territories within the boundaries set by Treaty Four. The study includes the negotiation and terms of this Treaty, the location of four reserves at Crooked Lakes and the movements of people to them. It examines the level of subsistence during the first …
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Body size, skeletal biomechanics and habitual behaviour: a bioarchaeological approach to social and economic change in the Neolithic and Copper Age central Mediterranean
… of individuals spanning the Upper Palaeolithic to Modern periods. The application of 3D scanning also enabled the use of novel methods in the analysis of fragmented skeletal remains. The analysis of body size documents a pronounced reduction in body mass and stature during the Neolithic, …
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Exploring diachronic changes in activity, diet and health on the prehistoric Baltic coast
… away from hunting-and-gathering lifestyles to more sedentary and agricultural lifestyles, which determined a change in their food-sourcing methods. Although the biological effects to changing subsistence patterns are generally well-understood, more recent studies show regional variation in …
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Truth and Archaeology: Justification in Archaeology
Many causes have been proposed for the transition to agriculture but how can archaeologists debate rival interpretations of the record with a seat-of-your-pants theoretical methodology? Truth is a concept that has been the subject of considerable thought and analysis by philosophers for millennia …
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Bringing to bear: A biosocial examination of the developmental origins of the obstetric dilemma.
… birth canal in humans is a result of an anatomical compromise for efficient bipedal locomotion and the ability to give birth to large brained infants. This previous work also suggested that difficult and potentially risk delivery of altricial humans was both evidence of and the solution to …