Essays about: "Linear Enamel Hypoplasia"

Found 3 essays containing the words Linear Enamel Hypoplasia.

1. 1. Osteological Markers of Nutritional Stress on the Swedish Island of Öland: Physiological Effects of Environmental Fluctuations during the Scandinavian Iron Age

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Arkeologi

   Author : Claire Maeve Callahan; [2020]
   Keywords : Old World Drought Atlas; Dendroclimatology; Nutrition; Osteology; Multiple Correspondence Analysis; Skeletal Pathology; Dietary Isotopes; Environmental Reconstructions; Historic Climate; Iron Age; Sweden; Baltic Region; History and Archaeology;

   Abstract : The shift to agriculture as the main form of subsistence practice allowed past peoples the freedom and potential to exploit their natural and man-made environment for personal and societal gain. Decades of archaeological excavations conducted on the Swedish island of Öland have amassed a wealth of information regarding the subsistence and settlement patterns of Iron Age societies. READ MORE

3. 2. Hogging Wealth : Dental analyses and an interdisciplinary study of the importance of pigs in prehistoric economies

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

   Author : Eric Hägglund; [2017]
   Keywords : Teeth analyses; Sus; wild boar; pig; osteology; Linear Enamel Hypoplasia; molars; ethno archaeology; Pitted Ware culture; Ajvide; Durrington Walls;

   Abstract : Studies in zoo-archaeological Neolithic contexts is the study of early animal domestication in relation to humans transitioning into a more sedentary species. Research and documentation are vital for reconstructing the mechanisms behind the threshold event. READ MORE

4. 3. Small town life in war-torn post-medieval Scania : a bioarchaeological study of human skeletal remains from 16-18th century Ängelholm, and a discussion of the merits of small osteological samples

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Historisk osteologi; Lunds universitet/Antikens kultur och samhällsliv

   Author : Rebecka Stråhlén; [2015]
   Keywords : Scandinavia; palaeopathology; stature; socioeconomic status; taphonomy; 16th century; 17th century; 18th century; History and Archaeology;

   Abstract : The now Swedish province of Scania has had a long history of violence and unrest, with several wars being fought on Scanian soil. Such tumultuous times must have impacted the common people and their living conditions, yet bioarchaeological research is lacking for post-medieval Scania and much of Sweden. READ MORE