During the last decades, the importance of deriving analogies about current challenges,
such as the mitigation of natural hazards, from archaeological case studies was frequently …

The population history of Japan has been one of the most intensively studied
anthropological questions anywhere in the world, with a huge literature dating back to the …

Abstract 'Resilience', in addition to 'collapse', has become increasingly important as a
concept for the study of social challenges in archaeology since the turn of the millennium. In …

Title: Theoretical Approaches in Bioarchaeology/edited by Colleen M. Cheverko, Julia R.
Prince-Buitenhuys, and Mark Hubbe. Description: London; New York: Routledge/Taylor & …

Walter Benjamin observed that it is precisely the modern which conjures up prehistory. From
Yanagita's â mountain people'to Umehara's â Jōmon civilisation', Japan has been an …

Objectives Linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) is a common skeletal marker of physiological
stress (eg, malnutrition or illness) that is studied within and across populations, without …

Human populations were exposed to significant environmental and ecological changes
during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition. In particular, changes in temperature and …

Digital photographs taken under controlled conditions were used to examine the incidence
of linear enamel hypoplasia defects (LEHs) in burials from the Buckeye Knoll archaeological …

Published in 1992,“The osteological paradox: problems of inferring prehistoric health from
skeletal samples” highlighted the limitations of interpreting population health from …

The Jomon culture is one of the longest continuous phases of complex huntergatherer
populations in world prehistory (Habu, 2004; Imamura, 1996). Jomon culture extends to …