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The Impact of Climate on the Spread of Rice Agriculture to North-Eastern China: An Example from Shandong
(PLOS One, 2015)
Moving crops outside of their original centers of domestication was sometimes a challenging process. Because of its substantial heat requirements, moving rice agriculture outside of its homelands of domestication was not ...
A 2,000-year reconstruction of the rain-fed maize agricultural niche in the US Southwest
(Nature Communications, 2014)
Humans experience, adapt to and influence climate at local scales. Paleoclimate research, however, tends to focus on continental, hemispheric or global scales, making it difficult for archaeologists and paleoecologists to ...
To clone or not to clone: Method analysis for retrieving consensus sequences in ancient DNA samples
(Public Library of Science, 2011)
The challenges associated with the retrieval and authentication of ancient DNA (aDNA) evidence are principally due to postmortem damage which makes ancient samples particularly prone to contamination from ‘‘modern’’ DNA ...
Detection of Cytosine Methylation in Ancient DNA from Five Native American Populations Using Bisulfite Sequencing
(Public Library of Science, 2015)
While cytosine methylation has been widely studied in extant populations, relatively few studies have analyzed methylation in ancient DNA. Most existing studies of epigenetic marks in ancient DNA have inferred patterns of ...
Ancient DNA analysis of mid-Holocene individuals from the Northwest Coast of North America reveals different evolutionary paths for mitogenomes
(Public Library of Science, 2013)
To gain a better understanding of North American population history, complete mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) were generated from four ancient and three living individuals of the northern Northwest Coast of North ...
Rice, Millets, Social Complexity and the Spread of Millet Agriculture to the Chengdu Plain and Southwest China
(Rice, 2011)
The Chengdu plain of south-west China lies outside the main centres of early domestication in the Huanghe and Yangzi valleys, but its importance in Chinese prehistory is demonstrated by the spectacular Sanxingdui bronzes ...
Agent-based models as behavioral laboratories for evolutionary anthropological research
(Arizona Anthropologist, 2006)
Agent-based models can provide paleoanthropologists with a view of behavioral dynamics and site formation processes as they unfold in digital caricatures of past societies and paleoenvironments. This paper argues that the ...
Ethnomedicine and Ethnobotany of Fright, a Caribbean Culture-bound Psychiatric Syndrome
(Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2010)
"Fright" is an English-speaking Caribbean idiom for an illness, or ethnomedical syndrome, of persistent distress. A parallel ethnopsychiatric idiom exists in the French Antilles as sésisma. Fright is distinct from susto ...
Incorporating satisfaction measures into a restaurant productivity index
(2007)
The increasing stature of the foodservice industry in the global service economy suggests that productivity analyses—similar to those performed in non-service-based settings—would benefit multiunit operators by maximizing ...