Can we distinguish life-style from genetic changes? How do
we identify migration in the context of changing climate,
diet, means of subsistence, activity?
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dietary reconstruction by bringing dental attrition and pathology into the picture, along with stable isotope analysis link
supplementary online material Antiquity
no longer available, but recreated in the following files:
craniometry, dates
(with one correction), metric data, non-metric data, references.
note:the
Melides femora were not measured by an experienced
osteologist and a check against my own control sample of
measurements of Melides femora demonstrated
inconsistencies. Remarks on femoral form and terrain
need checking (my own methods of measurement, however, have
been checked against those of Meiklejohn and those used at
the Institute of Anthropology at the University of Coimbra
and no inconsistencies were found).
looks at the
contradiction between the opinion that Neolithic life was
very hard and unhealthy and our idea of the Neolithic as a
time of population increase
http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~dlubell/CA_Iberia.pdf
studying skull size and
shape seems old-fashioned - but perhaps it tells you
something
erratum:
there
is an error on p. 844 which contradicts our article in Antiquity
(71:651); the sentence which reads "Thus the
skeletal material recovered in "Neolithic" context at
Samouqueira ...", should have referred instead to Gruta do
Lagar (Melides), which is Neolithic but with a "Mesolithic"
isotopic signature
looking at the differences between Mesolithic sites in Portugal; includes additional data on changes in dental attrition link
two classic Mesolithic sites in Portugal are very close in time and space, but cortical density, cortical thickness and radiographic characteristics of the femora demonstrate a surprising divergence link
A new paper, in press, summarizes a lot of work on this variability Jackes, M. Muge Mesolithic heterogeneity: comparing Moita do Sebastião and Cabeço da Arruda. Proceedings of MESO 2010, Santander. link
report of a conference
first results from a project on "late prehistoric populations of the Western Mediterranean and the Atlantic facade of Europe" sponsored by the SSHRC; includes results of size-adjusted craniometry and dental non-metric analyses as well as information on Iberian stable isotopes
a discussion on how the
analysis of non-metric dental traits may help answer basic
questions in skeletal biology about population affiliation
and movement link