Biogeochemical methods using stable isotopes and trace elements have been increasingly
developed and applied to reconstruct modern and ancient breastfeeding and weaning …

Human life history incorporates early weaning, a prolonged period of post-weaning
dependency and slow somatic growth, late onset of female reproduction, reduced birth …

Naturally occurring variations in the stable isotope composition of fossil vertebrates have
been studied since the late 1970s. Isotopic data from vertebrate fossils are sometimes used …

Aridification is often considered a major driver of long-term ecological change and hominin
evolution in eastern Africa during the Plio-Pleistocene; however, this hypothesis remains …

Studies of infant feeding and weaning patterns in past populations that rely on a cross‐
sectional approach must make the assumption that no infant mortality bias exists. Previous …

Abstract The La Venta fauna of Colombia (∼ 13.5–11.5 Ma) represents the most diverse
Tertiary locality in the neotropics, with 75 mammal species and a highly non-analogue …

New evidence for cattle husbandry practices during the earliest period of the southern
Scandinavian Neolithic indicates multiple birth seasons and dairying from its start …

It is often difficult to differentiate between archaeological bonebeds formed by one event
such as a mass kill of a single herd, and those formed by multiple events that occurred over …

Zur räumlichen Organisation der linearbandkeramischen Tierhaltung (LBK, Altneolithikum,
ca. 5.500—4.900 v. Chr.) existieren mehrere Modelle, die entweder eine Ernährung der …

Bison bison mandibular molars from the Late Plains Archaic kill/butchery sites of Buffalo
Creek (Wyoming) and Kaplan-Hoover (Colorado) exhibit significant frequencies of dental …