Paleonutrition
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RIASSUNTO — l'analisi paleonutrizionale degli elementi in traccia in alcuni campioni ossei umani pro-venienti dal camposanto dell'Isola del Lazzaretto Nuovo (Venezia) e riferibili all'epidemia di peste che colpì la Serenissima nel 1576... more
This investigation represents the first extensive application of Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry to ancient dental analysis and paleodietary reconstruction. Enamel strontium composition is examined because it... more
Se è vero che il profilo di mortalità di una popolazione è la migliore misura del suo successo adattativo, la sua ricostruzione nelle popolazioni del passato attraverso i resti odontoscheletrici è quanto mai complessa, articolata e... more
ABSTRACT: Analysis of stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes from soft or mineralized tissues is a direct and widely used technique for modeling diets. In addition to its continued role in paleodiet analysis, stable isotope analysis is now... more
This paper draws on comparative data to explore the evolutionary origins of human nutritional needs and the diverse strategies used by human populations tomeet those needs. Humans have evolved distinctive nutritional characteristics... more
The application of an integrated methodology - connecting the archaeological record with morphological analysis, reconstruction of the operational-functional sequence, wear traces and analysis of the residues, ethnographical comparison... more
"As Donald Ortner and other scholars have noted, the prevalence of subadult scurvy ranges widely among skeletal assemblages. Prevalence variation across the Americas has been attributed to seasonality and environmental instability,... more
Isotope variations were studied in necro-polises of the early (6th to 7th century CE) and central (10th to 11th century CE) medieval period located in Fruili-Venezia Giulia (Northeastern Italy). The two periods each shortly followed two... more
Zuraina Majid, Jaffrie Ignatius, H.D. Tjia & Peter Koon (1998) Some Interesting Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Finds from Excavations in Balambangan Island, Sabah, Malaysia Sabah Society Journal Vol.15: pp 29-40
This 'Letter to the Editor' or PLOS ONE comment is written in response to Dominguez-Rodrigo and colleagues who recently presented the earliest evidence of porotic hyperostosis in the hominin fossil record. They discovered two fragments of... more
In this contribution, we investigated the role of plants in the prehistoric community of Casale del Dolce (Anagni, FR, central Italy), through microparticles recovered from dental calculus. The finding of a great amount of pollen types,... more
This paper was composed as part of a graduate level Evolutionary Theory course at the University of West Florida during the Spring of 2012. In it I examine evidence from four case studies that identify possible "thrifty" candidate genes... more
In this contribution, we investigated the role of plants in the prehistoric community of Casale del Dolce (Anagni, FR, central Italy), through microparticles recovered from dental calculus. The finding of a great amount of pollen types,... more
This paper discusses the specialized processing of sheep leg bones for marrow retrieval, a food custom with a very restricted geographical and temporal distribution in the medieval Norse Shetland Islands, and medieval and later Iceland... more
Coprolites have been a source of study for archeologists due to several reasons: they not only provide information on the life and nutritional habits of ancient individuals but also on their health. In this paper, we processed 10... more
Pathoecology is the study of the biotic, abiotic, and cultural environments of dis-ease (Martinson et al. 2003). A parasitic infection is the result of the pathoecolog-ical interaction of host behavior, parasite life cycle, the... more
The examination of scurvy by paleopathologists has provided increasingly innovative diagnostic methods for identifying and assessing the impact of this metabolic disorder in past populations (e.g. Schultz 2001; Brickley & Ives 2008).... more
Individuals buried in two 17th-18th Century private chapels, each attached to a Franciscan Friary-one in Italy the other in Denmark-have been studied and sampled for trace element analysis. This selection of individuals allows a... more
This special issue of the International Journal of Paleopathology honors the legacy of Donald Ortner. Building on Ortner's longtime interest in the identification of specific nutritional deficiencies in archaeologically-derived human... more
The presentation will deal with changes in coffins shapes and coffin attributes during the post-reformation period in Sweden. A chronological pattern in the development of coffin shapes and coffin attributes was discovered during... more
This investigation represents the first extensive application of Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry to ancient dental analysis and paleodietary reconstruction. Enamel strontium composition is examined because it... more