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Advances in Anthropology (AA) is an international peer reviewed journal dedicated to reporting on the latest advances in anthropology and related disciplines. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians worldwide to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and perspectives i…
Eswarappa Kasi
There is a great need to understand, analyse and critically apprise conceptual and methodological issues of poverty and vulnerability and its underlying relevance in the today’s fast changing rural/urban spaces of south India. To pursue this academic and epis…
Jacek Tomczyk, Hanna Mańkowska-Pliszka, G. Michael Taylor, Ron Pinhasi, Maciej Jakuciński
Palaeopathology integrates knowledge and methods from physical anthropology and medicine. It aims to obtain information concerning the type of pathological conditions, their antiquity, palaeoepidemiology and etiology in past populations. However, practice sho…
Andrew R. Hatala
Between the years of 1931 and 1950, Robert Redfield, social science researcher and ethnographer from the University of Chicago, and Alfonso Villa Rojas described subtle and explicit cultural changes within Chan Kom, a Maya village in North-Central Yucatán. Us…
José A. Cocilovo, María L. Fuchs, Tyler G. O’Brien, Héctor H. Varela
The expression of sexual dimorphism may vary across time and space, as well as within and between populations depending on genetic and environmental factors that influence growth and development. The objective of the present work is to contribute to the knowl…
Kirk Dombrowski, Bilal Khan, Joshua Moses, Emily Channell, Evan Misshula
Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) is generally considered a methodology for recruiting “hard-to-reach” populations for social science research. More recently, Wejnert has argued that RDS analysis can be used for general social network analysis as well (where h…
Anahit Yu. Khudaverdyan
This study introduces some diseases which occur among the population of Armenia in the Iron Age. Health issues in the individuals from Shirakavan provoked not by nutritional problems, but problems of infectious nature. The skeletal traumas of the inhabitants…
Metin Gunduz
Who were the Sumerians? Where did they originate? For those who are not familiar with this remarkable, resourceful and intelligent people, who not only invented writing but also established the true mythological foundations of all main religions of the world,…
Zhi Yan, Yingli He, Qian Li, Meiling Cui, Ke Wang, Tianyan Chen, Hongli Liu, Ying-Ren Zhao
Background: Accumulating evidence has suggested that cell-free DNA (cf-DNA) enters the circulation following cell apoptosis or necrosis. An increased level of cf-DNA fragments has been found in the blood of mice with drug-induced liver damage. We sought to de…
Anatole A. Klyosov, Igor L. Rozhanskii, Lyudmila E. Ryabchenko
Our consideration of human haplogroups, and our analysis of the dynamics of the Y-chromosome nucleotide flow from primates to humans during the evolution of genus Homo has shown that a common ancestor of the majority of present day human males, both African a…
Banrida T. Langstieh, Vikrant Kumar, Meka Aruna, Alla Govardhan Reddy, Shilpi Dasgupta, Alla Nirmala, Kumarasamy Thangaraj, Lalji Singh, Battini Mohan Reddy
Meghalaya, one of the Northeast Indian states, is inhabited by two major tribal clusters, Khasi and Garo. The disputed origin of the Lyngngam tribe of Meghalaya is a result of their geographic distribution, which is sandwiched between that of the above two ma…
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