Can we distinguish life-style from genetic changes? How do we identify
migration in the context of changing climate, diet, means of
subsistence,
activity?
- 1984 Lubell, D., P. Sheppard and M. Jackes Continuities in the Epipalaeolithic of Northern Africa with emphasis on the Maghreb. In F. Wendorf and A. Close, eds., Advances in World Archaeology, Vol 3, pp. 143-191
- 1994 Lubell, D., M. Jackes, H. Schwarcz, M. Knyf and C. Meiklejohn The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Portugal: Isotopic and dental evidence of diet. Journal of Archaeological Science 21(2): 201-216
dietary reconstruction by bringing dental attrition and pathology into the picture, along with stable isotope analysis link
- 1997 Jackes, M., D. Lubell and C. Meiklejohn Healthy but mortal: human biology and the first farmers of Western Europe. Antiquity 71 (273): 639-658
with additional material also
at Antiquity
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
- 1997 Jackes, M., D. Lubell and C. Meiklejohn On physical anthropological aspects of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the Iberian Peninsula. Current Anthropology 38: 839-846
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
- 1999 Jackes, M. and D. Lubell Human skeletal biology and the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Portugal. In A. Thévenin (ed.), dir. scientifique P. Bintz, Europe des derniers chasseurs Épipaléolithique et Mésolithique: actes du 5e colloque international UISPP, commission XII, Grenoble, 18-23 septembre 1995. Paris: Éditions du CTHS, pp. 59-64
looking at the differences between Mesolithic sites in Portugal; includes additional data on changes in dental attrition link
- 1999 Jackes, M. and D. Lubell Human biological variability in the Portuguese Mesolithic. Arqueologia 24: 25-42
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
- 2000 Arnaiz-Villena, A. and D. Lubell (on behalf of M. Jackes and others) Prehistoric Iberia: genetics, anthropology and linguistics Current Anthropology 41:636-638
report of a conference
- 2003 Bamforth F., M. Jackes and D. Lubell Mesolithic-Neolithic population relationships in Portugal: the evidence from ancient mitochondrial DNA. In K. Knutsson, L. Larsson, D. Loeffler & A. Åkerlund (eds.) Mesolithic on the Move Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe, Stockholm 2000, pp. 581-587. Oxford: Oxbow Books http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~dlubell/Stockholm.pdf
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
- 2001 Jackes, M., A.M. Silva and J. Irish Dental morphology: a valuable contribution to our understanding of prehistory. Journal of Iberian Archaeology 3: 97-119
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
- 2004 Jackes, M.
Osteological evidence for Mesolithic and Neolithic violence: problems
of interpretation. In M. Roksandic (ed.) Evidence and Meaning of
Violent Interactions in Mesolithic Europe Oxford: Archaeopress BAR
International Series 1237, pp. 23-39 this paper
discusses (among other things) the lack of evidence for violence at the
end of the Portuguese Mesolithic
- link to 2009 summary on Portuguese Mesolithic sites for Mesolithic Miscellany.
- Recent paper on our archaeological
work at Portuguese sites: Medo Tojeiro, Samouqueira and Fiais. An
older, rather out-of-date paper includes information on the Samouqueira
burials,
to which I have appended some photographs. Other early papers
were from conferences in Rome (link and link) and Edinburgh (link).
- Paper in preparation
for publication: Indigenous European malaria: past, present and future.
Paper given at conference "Disease in Global Environmental History"
York University, Toronto, March 2007
