Integrating Bioarchaeology and Chronology at Los Melgarejos to Understand Ditched Enclosures in Copper Age Iberia
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DOI: 10.1017/eaa.2024.42
Abstract: In Iberia, ditched enclosures appeared during the Copper Age (late fourth to third millennium bc). These sites are linked by their circular organization, communal labour investment, and complex temporality, but vary markedly in their distribution,… read more here.
Keywords: bioarchaeology; archaeology; ditched enclosures; los melgarejos ... See more keywords
The Bioarchaeology of Kinship: Proposed Revisions to Assumptions Guiding Interpretation
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DOI: 10.1086/694584
Abstract: Bioarchaeology provides sophisticated techniques for estimating intra- and intercemetery biological relationships (i.e., biodistances), which can significantly expand anthropological research on kinship, explaining multiple dimensions of social life and identity in prehistory. However, some assumptions guiding… read more here.
Keywords: descent groups; bioarchaeology; guiding interpretation; assumptions guiding ... See more keywords