Screen LibraryHuman bioarchaeology of the transition to agriculture
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Wiley-Blackwell,
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| Publisher Address: | Chichester Hoboken, NJ |
| Publication Dates: | 2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xv, 484 p.: ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780470747308 (cloth) 0470747307 (cloth) |
| Index Number: | S |
| CLC: | S-09 |
| Call Number: | S-09/H918 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction : changing paradigms in our understanding of the transition to agriculture : human bioarchaeology, behaviour and adaption / Jay T. Stock and Ron Pinhasi -- Subsistence transitions. Mesolithic-neolithic transitions : an isotopic tour through Europe / Rick Schulting ; The mesolithic-neolithic transition in eastern Europe : integrating stable isotope studies of diet with palaeopathology to identify subsistence strategies and economy / Malcolm Lille and Chelsea Budd ; Climatic conditions, hunting activities and husbandry practices in the course of the neolithic transition : the story told by stable isotope analyses of human and animal skeletal remains / Gisela Grupe and Joris Peters ; Health, diet and social implication in neolithic Greece from the study of human osteological material / Anastasia Papathanasiou ; Using a bioarchaelolgical approach to explore subsistence transitions in the eastern Cape, South Africa during the mid- to late holocene / Jaime K. Ginter -- Growth and body size variation. Long bone length, stature and time in the European late pleistocene and early holocene / Christopher Mieklejohn and Jeff Babb ; Variability in long bone growth patterns and limb proportions within and amongst mesolithic and neolithic populations from southeast Europe / Ron Pinhasi, S. Stefanovic, Anastasia Papathanasiou and Jay T. Stock ; Reaching great heights : changes in indigenous stature, body size and bony shape with agricultural intensification in north America / Benjamin M. Auerbach ; Evolution of postcranial morphology during the agricultural transition in prehistoric Japan / Daniel H. Temple -- Biomechanics and indicators of habitual activity. The bioarchaeology of habitual activity and dietary change in the Siberian middle holocene / A.R. Lieverse, Jay T. Stock, M.A. Katzenberg and C.M. Haverkort ; 'An external agency of considerable importance' : the stresses of agriculture in the foraging-to-farming transition in eastern north America / Clark Spencer Larsen and Christopher Ruff ; Mobility and lower limb robusticity of a pastoralist neolithic population from north-western Italy / Damiano Marchi, Vitale Sparacello and Colin Shaw ; body size, skeletal biomechanics, mobility and habitual activity from the late palaeolithic to the mid-dynastic Nile valley / Jay T. Stock, Matthew C. O'Neill, Christopher B. Ruff, Melissa Zabecki, Laura Shackelford and Jerome C. Rose -- Archaeogenetics, Palaeodemography, cranial and dental morphology. The palaeopopulationgenetics of humans, cattle and dairying in neolithic Europe / Joachim burger and Mark G. Thomas ; The genetics of the neolithic transition : new light on differences between hunter-gatherers and farmers in southern Sweden / Anna Linderholm ; Palaeodemogrphy of southern levantine pre-pottery neolithic populations : regional and temporal perspectives / Vered Eshed and Ehud Galili ; Skeletal differentiation at the southernmost frontier of andean agriculture / Marina L. Sardi and Marien Beguelin ; Dental reduction and the transition to agriculture in Europe / Ron Pinhasi and Christopher Meiklejon. |