Isotopic analyses of prehistoric diet have only recently reached the threshold of going
beyond site-focused reports to provide regional syntheses showing larger trends. In this …

Occupation of the humid tropics by Late Holocene food producers depended on the use of
vegetative agricultural systems. A small number of vegetative crops from the Americas and …

Research increasingly suggests that natural and social environments shaped the Neolithic
expansion of the farming niche into Europe. The Danube Gorges, on account of its position …

Objective To reconstruct breastfeeding and weaning practices, metabolic stress including
tuberculosis-induced wasting, and residential mobility of children in Neolithic and Metal …

The reconstruction of life histories traits such as the ontogenic evolution of diet or sequences
of mobility can be achieved for fossil mammals thanks to laser ablation analysis of trace …

The Neolithic period is archaeologically well documented in Central Europe, and several
studies considered dietary habits and migration patterns. However, even though Switzerland …

Corded Ware is one of the main archaeological phenomena of the third millennium before
the common era (BCE), with a wide geographic spread across much of central and …

Objectives The aims of this research are to explore the diet, mobility, social organization,
and environmental exploitation patterns of early Mediterranean farmers, particularly the role …

Human responses to climate change have long been at the heart of discussions of past
economic, social, and political change in the Nile Valley of northeastern Africa. Following the …

Archaeoparasitology is increasingly being used as a tool in archaeological research to
investigate relationships between past humans, environments, diets and disease. It can be …