Bioanthropology
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Background. Dental traits are amongst human variations influenced much by genetic endowment. Premolar rotation has been found in several populationss around the world, however, it was thought to be one of the unique features found in LB1... more
What is Dental Anthropology? Dental anthropology is the study of teeth in extinct and extant primates, including human. Nowadays dental anthropologists are not only anthropologists, but also anatomists, zoologists, dentists, radiologists,... more
Objective: In this study, we analyze breastfeeding and weaning practices in pre-Columbian complex hunter-gatherers from the lower Paraná River basin (South America). Materials and Methods: We carried out bone isotope analyses concerning δ... more
XIII CONGRESO ASOCIACIÓN LATINOAMERICANA DE ANTROPOLOGÍA BIOLÓGICA 15-18 DE OCTUBRE 2014 La presente investigación está inmersa dentro del campo de estudio de la antropometría del rostro humano, específicamente en la medición de tejidos... more
Resumen En este trabajo se analiza el somatotipo de tres grupos universitarios de artes marciales y el proceso formativo de sus practicantes. Tras realizar una contextualización de la bioantropología del deporte, de la cineantropometría y... more
Reassessment of the studies about the São Gens 1 dolmen (Nisa) and the human remains collected in site, focusing particularly on the bones presently found in the Geological Museum of Lisbon. These include two fragments of an adult and... more
The analysis of burned bone stumbles on the problems raised by the heatinduced changes that seriously interfere with the methods adopted by biological anthropologists. These changes especially affect the structure of bone leading to... more
Laura Lockau, Stephanie Atkinson, Simon Mays, Tracy Prowse, Michele George, Alessandra Sperduti, Luca Bondioli, Carolan Wood, Marissa Ledger, Megan B. Brickley Taking the innovative step of considering individuals of all age groups and... more
On August 15 1566, the Abbey Our Lady of The Dunes (Koksijde, Belgium) was sacked by the iconoclasts. Within a quarter of a century the abbey buildings, abandoned by the monks, were demolished. Dismantling and selling the construction... more
Human activities are recognized as potential threats to the survival of swamp forests and their resources in the rural environment of the GrandLahou Sub-Prefecture. This study proposes to question the relations between the riverside... more
The Corded Ware is one of the major archaeological traditions of Late Neolithic Europe. Its burial customs are characterized by single graves but multiple burials also occur. We present a detailed study of antemortem and perimortem trauma... more
Time and signs. From creative immagination to unlimited semiosis
In Deutschland wurden im späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert Sammlungen menschlicher Überreste außereuropäischer Herkunft angelegt, die auch heute noch Teil der Bestände von Museen, Universitäten und anderen wissenschaftlichen... more
The Anglo-Saxon cemetery of Black Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne has revealed 660 burials. Osteological analysis investigates the sex, age-at-death, metric and non-metric traits of the adult skeleton ‘Sk191’ and immature skeleton ‘Sk490’.... more
The sites of Teviec and Hoedic, located in Brittany and excavated from 1928 to 1934 by Marthe and Saint-Just Péquart, have yielded twenty-odd graves dating to the end of the Mesolithic and containing almost forty individuals. Nearly a... more
Pendidikan bagi anak usia dini merupakan pemberian upaya untuk menstimulasi, membimbing, mengasuh dan melaksanakan pembelajaran yang akan menghasilkan kemampuan dan keterampilan pada anak. Untuk mendukung hal tersebut, anak dapat... more
The Neolithisation in the Near-East is a key period in the history of humanity: at this time, big changes appears in subsistance economy, provided by agriculture and animal husbandry. Other changes in lifestyle are generated by... more
Bioarchaeology has relied on Darwinian perspectives and biocultural models to communicate information about the lives of past peoples. This book demonstrates how further theoretical expansion—a thoughtful engagement with critical social... more
Reconstruction of past human activities allows us to understand historic trajectories of the changes in sexual division of labour (Hagaman 2009), socioeconomic stratification (Palmer 2012), occupational differences (Milella et al. 2012)... more
Français : Cette recherche porte sur l’analyse bioanthropologique et l’étude des rituels funéraires laténiens en Valais central. Plus précisément, elle traite des ensembles funéraires de Randogne – Bluche (fouillé entre 2001 et 2005) et... more
Se è vero che il profilo di mortalità di una popolazione è la migliore misura del suo successo adattativo, la sua ricostruzione nelle popolazioni del passato attraverso i resti odontoscheletrici è quanto mai complessa, articolata e... more