Human Bioarchaeology of the Transition to Agriculture

Title\n......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Foreword......Page 11
List of Contributors......Page 15
1 Introduction: Changing Paradigms in Our Understanding of the Transition to Agriculture: Human Bioarchaeology, Behaviour and Adaptation......Page 19
SECTION A: Subsistence Transitions......Page 33
2 Mesolithic-Neolithic Transitions: An Isotopic Tour through Europe......Page 35
3 The Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in Eastern Europe: Integrating Stable Isotope Studies of Diet with Palaeopathology to Identify Subsistence Strategies and Economy......Page 61
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......Page 81
5 Health, Diet and Social Implications in Neolithic Greece from the Study of Human Osteological Material......Page 105
6 Using a Bioarchaeological Approach to Explore Subsistence Transitions in the Eastern Cape, South Africa During the Mid- to Late Holocene......Page 125
SECTION B: Growth and Body Size Variation......Page 169
7 Long Bone Length, Stature and Time in the European Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene......Page 171
8 Variability in Long Bone Growth Patterns and Limb Proportions Within and Amongst Mesolithic and Neolithic Populations From Southeast Europe......Page 195
9 Reaching Great Heights: Changes in Indigenous Stature, Body Size and Body Shape with Agricultural Intensification in North America......Page 221
10 Evolution of Postcranial Morphology during the Agricultural Transition in Prehistoric Japan......Page 253
SECTION C: Biomechanics and Indicators of Habitual Activity......Page 281
11 The Bioarchaeology of Habitual Activity and Dietary Change in the Siberian Middle Holocene......Page 283
12 ‘An External Agency of Considerable Importance’: The Stresses of Agriculture in the Foraging-to-Farming Transition in Eastern North America......Page 311
13 Mobility and Lower Limb Robusticity of a Pastoralist Neolithic Population from North-Western Italy......Page 335
14 Body Size, Skeletal Biomechanics, Mobility and Habitual Activity from the Late Palaeolithic to the Mid-Dynastic Nile Valley......Page 365
SECTION D: Archaeogenetics, Palaeodemography, Cranial and Dental Morphology......Page 387
15 The Palaeopopulationgenetics of Humans, Cattle and Dairying in Neolithic Europe......Page 389
16 The Genetics of the Neolithic Transition: New Light on Differences Between Hunter-Gatherers and Farmers in Southern Sweden......Page 403
17 Palaeodemography of Southern Levantine Pre-Pottery Neolithic Populations: Regional and Temporal Perspectives......Page 421
18 Skeletal Differentiation at the Southernmost Frontier of Andean Agriculture......Page 447
19 Dental Reduction and the Transition to Agriculture in Europe......Page 469
Index......Page 493
Colour Plates......Page 503