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Energy source, protein metabolism, and hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies
(Elsevier, 1983-03)
During late winter and spring, hunter-gatherers in temperate, subarctic, and arctic environments often relied on diets that provided marginal or inadequate caloric intakes. During such periods, particularly when stored ...
Koobi Fora research project, volume 5: plio-pleistocene archaeology
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998-10)
No abstract.
Seasonality, resource stress, and food sharing in so-called "egalitarian" foraging societies
(Elsevier, 1990-06)
Most discussions of food sharing among so-called "egalitarian" hunters and gatherers implicitly assume that, because all adult members of a group participate in the network of sharing, all must therefore be receiving ...
Book reviews
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1981-12)
Book reviews
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1979-06)
The Economics of Ritual at Late Old Babylonian Kish
(Brill Academic Publishers; by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-01)
A small archive of economic documents from the city of Kish in the late Old Babylonian period records amounts of money owed to the “supervisor of kezertu women” from the kezertu account. The employment of kezertu women in ...
Oleneostrovski mogilnik: Reconstructing the social and economic organization of prehistoric foragers in Northern Russia
(Elsevier, 1984-03)
Oleneostrovski mogilnik (Red Deer Island cemetery) in Karelia, USSR, is the largest known Mesolithic-age cemetery in the Boreal zone, containing the remains of at least 170 individual interments. An analysis of mortuary ...
Developing Complex Societies in Southeast Asia: Using Archaeological and Historical Evidence
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-12)
A number of archaeologists are making significant advances in the historical archaeology of Southeast Asia. The papers presented in this issue, and the one that preceded it, provide new insights and exciting directions for ...
Book Review: Fat Talk: What Girls and Their Parents Say About Dieting. Mimi Nichter, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; 2000. 202 pp. + appendices
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-06)
The chronology of adipose tissue appearance and distribution in the human fetus
(Elsevier, 1984-09)
Timing of first appearance and subsequent distribution of adipose tissue were assessed in 488 normal-for-age human fetuses. The sample represented each of the three trimesters of normal pregnancies. Light microscopy showed ...