{"title":"Archaeometallurgy of the Etruscan dental protheses: prestige, magic or biocompatibility?","authors":"G Baggieri, C Giardino, G E Gigante, P Guida","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75422,"journal":{"name":"Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Medica","volume":"41 1-4","pages":"69-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25055620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A singular case of dwarfism with articular facets on tibio-fibular diaphysis, from the Longobard necropolis of the late-middle-ages at Cividale del Friuli (Udine)--Italy.","authors":"G Baggieri","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75422,"journal":{"name":"Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Medica","volume":"41 1-4","pages":"87-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25055623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diet and the Neanderthals.","authors":"I Tattersall, J Schwartz","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The ultimate goal of paleoanthropological studies is to develop the most accurate and exhaustive portraits possible of our extinct human relatives, and of the history by which we became what we are. This endeavor includes, in the first place, the essential processes of establishing the basic parameters of hominid diversity, and of elucidating the potential evolutionary relationships among the components of that diversity. But our efforts clearly need to go farther than this; for the overall picture of human evolution is quite evidently incomplete without consideration of early hominid lifeways, and of how now-vanished hominid species interacted with their environments. Among the most important interactions of this kind is, unquestionably, feeding behavior and the expression of such behaviors in diet. For, at least short of breathing, feeding is the most fundamental of all the subsistence activities in which a terrestrial species can engage. And we will never be able to claim to understand the lifeways of ancient hominids without at least some insight into how they sustained themselves. Self-evident as these remarks might be, however, they should not be taken to imply that--especially among eurytopes such as hominids--diet can, or should ever be regarded as, monolithic, or as an intrinsic property of any species. Nor do they mean that we can ever look upon hominid populations as \"adapted\" to particular food resources. Indeed, primates in general are remarkably varied in the diets that may be chosen by different populations of the same species, both seasonally and geographically [see, for example, the review of dietary variation among Malagasy strepsirhines in Tattersall, 1982]. Rather, amongst most if not all-living primates that have been studied, it appears--not surprisingly--that the factor, which most importantly controls immediate dietary intake, is the spectrum of potential food resources available within the local environment. Not to put too fine a point on it, most primates are opportunists.</p>","PeriodicalId":75422,"journal":{"name":"Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Medica","volume":"41 1-4","pages":"29-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25055616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changing circumstances for accepting of behavioral patterns in connection with food preparation.","authors":"V Dvoráková-Janů","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Food habits in a family are the results of many factors, e.g. the local traditions, availability of food, economic, social and cultural situation, and many others depending on the particular environment. Key role in this respect in the family have women, especially mothers. The transmission of the experiences on the choice and preparation of daily meals, their characteristic, frequency of their intake is also a result of previous generation of mothers, i.e. grandmothers. However, this situation has started to vary during more recent period of time according to the global changes in lifestyle. This resulted especially from the economic development and changing social situation. The analysis of this situation, when the role of mother and family declines, in the transmission of food choice and habits will be presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":75422,"journal":{"name":"Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Medica","volume":"41 1-4","pages":"127-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25228191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trace elements and heavy metals as indicators of palaeodiet and dating of human population.","authors":"I Cejková, M Dobisíková, J Král, Z Nejedlý","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75422,"journal":{"name":"Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Medica","volume":"41 1-4","pages":"99-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25055625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction--a general survey of human dietary change in Europe.","authors":"V Smrcka","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75422,"journal":{"name":"Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Medica","volume":"41 1-4","pages":"7-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25056271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G Baggieri, F Bertoldi, L Usai, L Allegrezza, F Bartoli, M Di Giacomo
{"title":"The Longobard population from the San Mauro Necropolis Cividale: preliminary results of our anthropological and palaeonutritional study.","authors":"G Baggieri, F Bertoldi, L Usai, L Allegrezza, F Bartoli, M Di Giacomo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75422,"journal":{"name":"Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Medica","volume":"41 1-4","pages":"83-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25055622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cribra orbitalia in early medieval population from Ostrów Lednicki (Poland).","authors":"Z Lubocka","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cribra orbitalia is mostly diagnosed as being of nutritional origin, especially iron deficiency anaemia, and as the effect of infectious diseases and parasitic infestations. That lesion of the orbital roof is the good indicator of the biological state of the prehistoric populations. The frequency of occurrence of the cribra orbitalia was examined in the early medieval (12th-14th century) human population from Ostrów Lednicki (an island on the Lednica Lake--Wielkopolska Province, Poland). The intensity of the cribra orbitalia was estimated on the basis of Hengen's scale, and author's scale (3 degrees of intensity). 494 adult skulls, 259 females (52.4%), 234 males (47.4%) and one indeterminate individual (0.2%) were analysed. Cribra orbitalia were present in 149 (30.2%) individuals of this population. Frequency of occurrence of this lesion was higher in females (17.4%) than in males (12.8%), and its distribution in different age categories was: adultus 15.8% (78 individuals), maturus 12.6% (62 individuals), senilis 1.8% (9 individuals). Cribra orbitalia were more frequent in the left orbit. Occurrence and intensity of this pathology of the orbital roof was compared with the various osteometric features: measurements of the skull, calculated body height and massivity of the postcranial skeleton. There was lack of the correlation among those features and cribra orbitalia. Results of this study were compared with other medieval skeletal series from Poland.</p>","PeriodicalId":75422,"journal":{"name":"Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Medica","volume":"41 1-4","pages":"93-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25055624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Menu of Gravettian people from southern Moravia.","authors":"M Nývltová-Fisáková","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There are a number of Upper Palaeolithic sites of Gravettian people in the southern Moravia. These people had eaten animals and their bones were used for creating artefacts. Their food was based on several species that lived in the vicinity of their settlement unit. The sites Dolní Vĕstonice II (Under Western Slope--UWS), IIa and III and Pavlov (1952, 1953, 1957 and 1958) have been studied to obtain a picture of the menu of Gravettian people in this region. Hunted animals fall into two groups, the first one includes those species hunted consistently and the second group those hunted occasionally. The following animals rank among the first group: mammoth, reindeer, horse, wolf, hare and fox. The second group includes bear, lion, wolverine, wildcat, lynx, deer, woolly rhinoceros and birds. The carnivores were hunted for their hides, fur and bones. The long bones of hunted animals were crushed for marrow. The proximal parts of bones were used for creating tools since distal parts of bones have been found predominantly. Teams of several hunters hunted herd animals. The rest of the species was hunted accidentally, some of them probably by hunting nets.</p>","PeriodicalId":75422,"journal":{"name":"Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Medica","volume":"41 1-4","pages":"37-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25055617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Europe's great dietary revolution: from a single staple (bread) to a diversity of food, 1750-1900.","authors":"V J Knapp","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75422,"journal":{"name":"Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Medica","volume":"41 1-4","pages":"119-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25228190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}