Reconstructing Neanderthal diet: The case for carbohydrates

K Hardy, H Bocherens, JB Miller, L Copeland - Journal of Human Evolution, 2022 - Elsevier
Evidence for plants rarely survives on Paleolithic sites, while animal bones and
biomolecular analyses suggest animal produce was important to hominin populations …

[LIVRE][B] Paleoethnobotany: a handbook of procedures

DM Pearsall - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
This new edition of the definitive work on doing paleoethnobotany brings the book up to date
by incorporating new methods and examples of research, while preserving the overall …

Beyond food: The multiple pathways for inclusion of materials into ancient dental calculus

A Radini, E Nikita, S Buckley… - American journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Dental calculus (mineralized dental plaque) was first recognised as a potentially useful
archaeological deposit in the 1970s, though interest in human dental calculus as a resource …

[HTML][HTML] A history of violence in the Mesolithic female skeleton from Mezzocorona-Borgonuovo (Trento, northeastern Italy)

VS Sparacello, E Mottes, I Dori, C Posth… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Scholars have long been interested in understanding conflict in prehistoric times. Skeletal
lesions attributable to interpersonal violence constitute the most direct evidence available to …

Iron Age pastoral nomadism and agriculture in the eastern Eurasian steppe: implications from dental palaeopathology and stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes

EM Murphy, R Schulting, N Beer, Y Chistov… - Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Iron Age societies of the eastern Eurasian steppe are traditionally viewed as nomadic
pastoralists. However, recent archaeological and anthropological research in Kazakhstan …

Subsistence and social change in central Eurasia: stable isotope analysis of populations spanning the Bronze Age transition

AV Miller, E Usmanova, V Logvin, S Kalieva… - Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
At the transition from the Middle (2100–1700 BC) to Late Bronze Age (1700–1400 BC) in the
central Eurasian steppe, significant changes occurred in patterns of settlement and mortuary …

Redefining childhood through bioarchaeology: Toward an archaeological and biological understanding of children in antiquity

MA Perry - … Papers of the American Anthropological Association, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Many critiques surrounding the archaeology of childhood have addressed the disparate
social and biological identifications of children. Bioarchaeological information can elucidate …

Stable isotope analysis and dental evidence of diet at the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in Ukraine

MC Lillie, M Richards - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2000 - Elsevier
Bone collagen stable carbon isotope values obtained from late Mesolithic and earlier
Neolithic skeletal remains from the Dnieper Rapids region of Ukraine confirm an overall …

Eneolithic horse exploitation in the Eurasian steppes: diet, ritual and riding

DW Anthony, DR Brown - Antiquity, 2000 - cambridge.org
The symbolism of the horse in Eneolithic society is explored in this paper. Recent
excavations in the Eurasian steppes demonstrate the importance of horses before …

A new approach to sexual diagnosis in past populations. Practical adjustments from Van Vark's procedure

P Murail, J Bruzek, J Braga - International Journal of …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Determination of sex is a key aspect in the study of past populations. Bias in skeletal sexing
is well known, however, and depends upon the completeness of the skeletal remains and …