Early evidence of extra-masticatory dental wear in a Neolithic community at Bestansur, Iraqi Kurdistan [0.03%]
伊拉克库尔德斯坦Bestansur新石器时代社区牙齿非咀嚼磨损的早期证据
Sam Walsh
Sam Walsh
This paper presents the first evidence of extra-masticatory dental wear from Neolithic Bestansur, Iraqi Kurdistan (7700-7200 BC). Bestansur is a rare, recently excavated burial site of this period in the Zagros region, of Iraqi Kurdistan. A...
Paleodietary reconstruction of endemic rodents from the precolumbian Dominican Republic: Discriminating wild feeding behavior from diets linked to human niche construction activities [0.03%]
来自哥伦布到达前多米尼加共和国的本土啮齿动物的古代饮食重构:区分野外进食行为与同人类生存环境建设活动相关的饮食结构
Gene T Shev,Jason E Laffoon
Gene T Shev
In the Greater Antilles, certain animal taxa that have long been theorized to have been managed by indigenous peoples prior to AD1492, the main candidates being a group of endemic caviomorph rodents known as hutias (Capromyinae). This isoto...
Employing radiography (X-rays) to localize lesions in human skeletal remains from past populations to allow accurate biopsy, using examples of cancer metastases [0.03%]
利用放射摄影(X射线)定位过去人群的人类骨骼遗骸中的病灶,以便准确活检,以癌症转移为例
Piers D Mitchell,Jenna M Dittmar
Piers D Mitchell
Clinical research into biomolecules from infectious diseases and cancers has advanced rapidly in recent years, with two key areas being DNA analysis and proteomics. If we wish to understand important diseases and their associated biomolecul...
Indicators of motherhood? Sacral preauricular extensions and notches in identified skeletal collections [0.03%]
母性的标志?识别骨骼收藏中的耳上颞颥嵴突起和凹陷
Doris Pany-Kucera,Michaela Spannagl-Steiner,Jocelyne Desideri et al.
Doris Pany-Kucera et al.
The sacral preauricular extension (SPE) and sacral preauricular notch (SPN) are morphological changes at the ventral apex of the sacrum. We recently specified their shapes and appearances and suggested a scoring system based on prehistoric ...
Ancient anomalies: Twinned and supernumerary incisors in a medieval Nubian [0.03%]
古代的异常发现:中世纪努比亚人的双生和多生上门齿
Emma L W Phillips,Joel D Irish,Daniel Antoine
Emma L W Phillips
During the analysis of a skeletal assemblage from a medieval cemetery in Nubia (c. AD 500-1550), a young adult female with abnormally developed maxillary incisors was discovered. The possible causes of the two dental anomalies found in this...
Judging a reindeer by its teeth: A user-friendly tooth wear and eruption pattern recording scheme to estimate age-at-death in reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) [0.03%]
reindeer年龄鉴定的牙齿方案初探——以牙釉质生长线为依据建立reindeer年龄参考图谱的新方法
Mathilde van den Berg,Maarten J J E Loonen,Canan Çakırlar
Mathilde van den Berg
Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) have shaped the cultures and provided livelihood to peoples of the Northern Hemisphere for thousands of years. They are still the socio-economic cornerstone of many northern cultures. Insight into reindeer morta...
Robin Bendrey,Debra Martin
Robin Bendrey
Zoonotic diseases-human diseases of animal origin-represent one of the world's greatest health challenges, both today and in the past. Since the Neolithic, zoonotic diseases have been one of the major factors shaping and influencing human a...
M Bopp-Ito,S Deschler-Erb,W Vach et al.
M Bopp-Ito et al.
To date, osteometric data for Swiss Bronze Age cattle, particularly from Alpine sites, are scarce. In the present study, using a large dataset generated by combining preexisting data with recent data obtained from a large Alpine site, cattl...
Human-Aided Movement of Viral Disease and the Archaeology of Avian Osteopetrosis [0.03%]
人类辅助的病毒性疾病传播和禽类骨纤维异常增生症考古学
B Tyr Fothergill
B Tyr Fothergill
The term avian osteopetrosis is used to describe alterations to the skeletal elements of several species of domestic bird, most typically the chicken, Gallus gallus domesticus (L. 1758). Such lesions are routinely identified in animal bones...
Dietary Diversity on the Swahili Coast: The Fauna from Two Zanzibar Trading Locales [0.03%]
斯瓦希里海岸的饮食多样性:桑给巴尔两个贸易地点的动物群
M E Prendergast,E M Quintana Morales,A Crowther et al.
M E Prendergast et al.
Occupants of coastal and island eastern Africa-now known as the 'Swahili coast'-were involved in long-distance trade with the Indian Ocean world during the later first millennium CE. Such exchanges may be traced via the appearance of non-na...