Excising culture history from contemporary archaeology

GM Feinman, JE Neitzel - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2020 - Elsevier
North American archaeologists must reconsider their implicit adherence to the culture history
paradigm. The long-standing role of this approach to situate archaeological remains in …

The social dynamics of settling down

GM Feinman, JE Neitzel - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2023 - Elsevier
For more than 150 years, global perspectives on the mobile to sedentary transition have
been framed by deeply entrenched categorical assumptions that have effectively blinded …

Impact of ethnicity on cardiac adaptation to exercise

N Sheikh, S Sharma - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2014 - nature.com
The increasing globalization of sport has resulted in athletes from a wide range of ethnicities
emerging onto the world stage. Fuelled by the untimely death of a number of young …

Seed exchange networks, ethnicity, and sorghum diversity

V Labeyrie, M Thomas… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Recent studies investigating the relationship between crop genetic diversity and human
cultural diversity patterns showed that seed exchanges are embedded in farmers' social …

[HTML][HTML] Conservación de la diversidad de yuca en los sistemas tradicionales de cultivo de la Amazonía

D Pérez, R Mora, C López-Carrascal - Acta Biológica Colombiana, 2019 - scielo.org.co
La yuca es determinante para la seguridad alimentaria de cientos de millones de personas
alrededor del mundo. A pesar de que el principal medio de propagación del cultivo es a …

Marriage exchanges, seed exchanges, and the dynamics of manioc diversity

M Delêtre, DB McKey… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
The conservation of crop genetic resources requires understanding the different variables—
cultural, social, and economic—that impinge on crop diversity. In small-scale farming …

Y-chromosome descent clusters and male differential reproductive success: young lineage expansions dominate Asian pastoral nomadic populations

P Balaresque, N Poulet, S Cussat-Blanc… - European Journal of …, 2015 - nature.com
High-frequency microsatellite haplotypes of the male-specific Y-chromosome can signal
past episodes of high reproductive success of particular men and their patrilineal …

A mitochondrial revelation of early human migrations to the Tibetan Plateau before and after the last glacial maximum

Z Qin, Y Yang, L Kang, S Yan, K Cho… - American Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
As the highest plateau surrounded by towering mountain ranges, the Tibetan Plateau was
once considered to be one of the last populated areas of modern humans. However, this …

Does genomics challenge the social construction of race?

A Morning - Sociological theory, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Shiao, Bode, Beyer, and Selvig argue that the theory of race as a social construct should be
revisited in light of recent genetic research, which they interpret as demonstrating that …

Y-chromosome variation in Altaian Kazakhs reveals a common paternal gene pool for Kazakhs and the influence of Mongolian expansions

MC Dulik, LP Osipova, TG Schurr - PLos one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Kazakh populations have traditionally lived as nomadic pastoralists that seasonally migrate
across the steppe and surrounding mountain ranges in Kazakhstan and southern Siberia …