Browsing Department of Anthropology by Title
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An analysis of language provisions in the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement
(GETIC, Université Laval, 2003)The Nunavut Act and Nunavut Land Claims Agreement were negotiated in response to a plethora of needs and desires, as expressed by the Government of Canada, the Government of the Northwest Territories and the Nunavut Tungavik ... -
Are the Biological Differences Between North American Indians and Eskimos Truly Profound? [Comment]
(The University of Chicago Press, 1978-12-01) -
Australian Tooth-Size Clines and the Death of a Stereotype [Comment]
(The University of Chicago Press, 1980-01-01) -
The Aveline's Hole 9 Cranium: A Partial Solution to a Long Standing Enigma
(University of Bristol Spelaeological Society, 2012)Aveline's Hole is both one of the best-known sites with early human skeletal material in Britain and one of the most problematic in its history. First discovered and explored at the close of the 18th century, it yielded ... -
Avelines's Hole: An Unexpected Twist in the Tale
(University of Bristol Spelaeological Society, 2019)Aveline’s Hole is the largest known Early Mesolithic cemetery in Britain, previously thought to have no evidence for subsequent burial activity. Thus, it came as some surprise when the results of a recent ancient human DNA ... -
The Bering Land Bridge
(Wayne State University Press, 1967-01-01) -
A bibliography of ethnobotanical usage among cultures of Algonkian type
(The University of Winnipeg Press, 1968-01)The present bibliography of published materials attempts to convey the available data on Native North American cultures of Algonkian type. The search was supported by the Northern Studies Committee of the University of ... -
A chrono-geographic look at Mesolithic burials: an initial study
(Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, 2016)Over the past decade we have focused on two interrelated topics within Mesolithic burial studies, the relationship between burial number and burial date, and the chronology of Mesolithic sites with burials. Related to this ... -
Craniometric analysis of European Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic samples supports discontinuity at the Last Glacial Maximum
(Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2014-06-10)The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) represents the most significant climatic event since the emergence of anatomically modern humans (AMH). In Europe, the LGM may have played a role in changing morphological features as a ... -
A Demographer's View of Prehistoric Demography
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Inuit Perspectives on Sustaining Bilingualism in Nunavut
(Université Laval, 2009)This article presents an Inuit perspective on how bilingualism and biliteracy may be achieved and sustained in Nunavut. The Nunavut Literacy Council interviewed "language role models" (i.e., Inuit who are admired for their ... -
Inuit principals and the changing context of bilingual education in Nunavut
(Université Laval, 2016)Inuit principals and the changing context of bilingual education in Nunavut Although positive policies and laws promote the Inuit language and Inuit qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) in all sectors of Nunavut society, including at ... -
Isotopic reconstruction of the weaning process in the archaeological population of Canímar Abajo, Cuba: A Bayesian probabilities mixing models approach
(Public Library of Science, 2017-05-01)The general lack of well-preserved juvenile skeletal remains from Caribbean archaeological sites has, in the past, prevented evaluations of juvenile dietary changes. Canímar Abajo (Cuba), with a large number of well-preserved ... -
Le Crâne des Anthropomorphes [Book Review]
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Mobile and Terrestrial but Firmly Rooted on the River Banks: Biological Anthropology of Lepenski Vir and the Iron Gates Gorge Mesolithic
(Advances in Anthropology, 2012-08)Archaeological interpretation often links both the European Mesolithic and the complexity with reduced mobility and permanent or semi-permanent settlements. The Iron Gates Gorge (IGG) Mesolithic, on the banks of the Danube, ... -
Natural Selection and Morphological Variability: The Case of Europe From Neolithic to Modern Times [Comment]
(The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 1978-03) -
New Evidence for a Late Introduction of Malaria into the New World
(The University of Chicago Press, 1975-01-01) -
New Radiometric Ages for the BH-1 Hominin from Balanica (Serbia): Implications for Understanding the Role of the Balkans in Middle Pleistocene Human Evolution
(PLoS, 2013-02-06)Newly obtained ages, based on electron spin resonance combined with uranium series isotopic analysis, and infrared/postinfrared luminescence dating, provide a minimum age that lies between 397 and 525 ka for the hominin ... -
Not of African Descent: Dental Modification among Indigenous Caribbean People from Canímar Abajo, Cuba
(PLoS, 2016-04-12)Dental modifications in the Caribbean are considered to be an African practice introduced to the Caribbean archipelago by the influx of enslaved Africans during colonial times. Skeletal remains which exhibited dental ... -
Oceanic Tooth-Size Variation as a Reflection of Biological and Cultural Mixing
(The University of Chicago Press, 1981-01-01)
