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Klappentext * Focuses on how changes were manifested biologically during the transition to agriculture * Contributions from key researchers in the area * Up-to-date account of this fundamental episode of human evolution * Global approach with chapters dealing with Europe! Asia! Africa and North and South America. Zusammenfassung * Focuses on how changes were manifested biologically during the transition to agriculture * Contributions from key researchers in the area * Up-to-date account of this fundamental episode of human evolution * Global approach with chapters dealing with Europe! Asia! Africa and North and South America. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword ( Clark Spencer Larsen ). List of Contributors. 1. Introduction: Changing Paradigms in Our Understanding of the Transition to Agriculture: Human Bioarchaeology! Behaviour and Adaption ( Jay T. Stock and Ron Pinhasi ). Section A: Subsistence Transitions. 2. Mesolithic-Neolithic Transitions: An Isotopic Tour through Europe ( Rick Schulting ). 3. The Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in Eastern Europe: Integrating Stable Isotope Studies of Diet with Palaeopathology to Identify Subsistence Strategies and Economy ( Malcolm Lillie and Chelsea Budd ). 4. Climatic Conditions! Hunting Activities and Husbandry Practices in the Course of the Neolithic Transition: The Story Told by Stable Isotope Analyses of Human and Animal Skeletal Remains ( Gisela Grupe and Joris Peters ). 5. Health! Diet and Social Implications in Neolithic Greece from the Study of Human Osteological Material ( Anastasia Papathanasiou ). 6. Using a Bioarchaeological Approach to Explore Subsistence Transitions in the Eastern Cape! South Africa during the Mid- to Late Holocene ( Jaime K. Ginter ). Section B: Growth and Body Size Variation. 7. Long Bone Length! Stature and Time in the European Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene ( Christopher Mieklejohn and Jeff Babb ). 8. Variability in Long Bone Growth Patterns and Limb Proportions Within and Amongst Mesolithic and Neolithic Populations from Southeast Europe ( Ron Pinhasi! S. Stefanovi c! Anastasia Papathanasiou and Jay T. Stock ). 9. Reaching Great Heights: Changes in Indigenous Stature! Body Size and Body Shape with Agricultural Intensification in North America ( Benjamin M. Auerbach ). 10. Evolution of Postcranial Morphology during the Agricultural Transition in Prehistoric Japan ( Daniel H. Temple ). Section C: Biomechanics and Indicators of Habitual Activity. 11. The Bioarchaeology of Habitual Activity and Dietary Change in the Siberian Middle Holocene ( A.R. Lieverse! Jay T. Stock! M.A. Katzenberg and C.M. Haverkort ). 12. 'An External Agency of Considerable Importance': The Stresses of Agriculture in the Foraging-to-Farming Transition in Eastern North America ( Clark Spencer Larsen and Christopher Ruff ). 13. Mobility and Lower Limb Robusticity of a Pastoralist Neolithic Population from North-Western Italy ( Damiano Marchi! Vitale Sparacello and Colin Shaw ). 14. Body Size! Skeletal Biomechanics! Mobility and Habitual Activity from the Late Palaeolithic to the Mid-Dynastic Nile Valley ( Jay T. Stock! Matthew C. O'Neill! Christopher B. Ruff! Melissa Zabecki! Laura Shackelford and Jerome C. Rose ). Section D: Archaeogenetics! Palaeodemography! Cranial and Dental Morphology. 15. The Palaeopopulationgenetics of Humans! Cattle and Dairying in Neolithic Europe ( Joachim Burger and Mark G. Thomas ). 16. The Genetics of the Neolithic Transition: New Light on Differences Between Hunter-Gatherers and Farmers in Southern Sweden ( Anna Linderholm ). 17. Palaeodemography of Southern Levantine Pre-Pottery Neolithic Populations: Regional and Temporal Perspectives ( Vered Eshed and Ehud Galili ). 18. Skeletal Differentiation at the Southernmost Frontier of Andean Agriculture ( Marina L. Sardi and Marien Beguelin ). 19. Dental Reduction and the Transition to Agriculture in Europe ( Ron Pinhasi and Christ...
