Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (635 p.)
Disciplina	394.1/209 394.1209
Soggetto topico	Prehistoric peoples - Food Food habits - History Diet - History Excavations (Archaeology) Social archaeology
ISBN	0-7591-2366-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	""CONTENTS""; ""THEMATIC CONTENTS""; ""FIGURES AND TABLES""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""INDEX""; ""ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS""
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910797374603321

Autore	Scott Susan <1953->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Science, 2002
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (384 p.)
Disciplina	363.809 614.409
Altri autori (Persone)	DuncanC. J (Christopher John)
Soggetto topico	Food supply - History Diet - History Demographic anthropology Nutritional anthropology
ISBN	1-280-19932-6 9786610199327 0-470-70956-1 0-470-77745-1 0-470-77448-7 1-4051-2337-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1.1 The history of human diet; 1.2 The diet of the hunter-gatherers; 1.3 Demographic change linked to the beginnings of agriculture; 1.4 To which diet is modern man adapted?; 1.5 Consequences of an agricultural life-style; 1.6 Domestication of animals; 1.7 Interactions between demographic pressures and diet; 1.8 Height and nutrition; 1.9 The working class diet in pre-industrial England; Chapter 2 Mortality Oscillations in 404 English Parishes - a Metapopulation Study; 2.1 Use of time-series analysis techniques 2.2 Exogenous oscillations in 404 parishes 2.3 The role of wheat prices in driving exogenous population oscillations; 2.4 Short wavelength oscillation in baptisms in 404 parishes; 2.5 Conclusions; Chapter 3 The Staple Food Supply: Fluctuating Wheat Prices and Malnutrition; 3.1 Hypotheses to account for fluctuating grain prices; 3.2 Sources for the data series; 3.3 Cycles in the wheat price index; 3.4 Oats and barley price indices; 3.5 Correspondence between the grain price indices in England; 3.6 The effect of seasonal temperatures on wheat prices; 3.7 The effect of rainfall on wheat prices 3.8 Wheat prices and short wavelength temperature cycles 3.9 Use of a predicted wheat prices series; 3.10 What drove the different cycles in wheat prices?; 3.11 Rust and other parasitic infestations of grain crops; 3.12 Conclusions; Chapter 4 Famine; 4.1 Major famines in world history; 4.2 The demographic impact of famine; 4.3 Changes in fertility; 4.4 The Bangladesh famine of 1974-5: a case study; 4.5 The Dutch famine of 1944-5: a case study; 4.6 The siege of Leningrad, 1941-4; 4.7 Why do women survive famine better than men?; 4.8 Famines in pre-industrial England 4.9 Famine at Penrith, Cumbria, 1623: a case study 4.10 Interacting economic factors causing famines in northwest England; 4.11 The mortality crisis of 1623 in northwestern England; 4.12 Conclusions; Chapter 5 Long-term Demographic Effects of even a Small Famine; 5.1 Endogenous oscillations in the population at Penrith, Cumbria, England; 5.2 Modelling the population dynamics; 5.3 Incorporation of density-dependent constraints into the matrix model; 5.4 Conclusions: endogenous population oscillations; Chapter 6 Fertility; 6.1 The importance of body fat; 6.2 Adipose tissue 6.3 The role of leptin in the control of fertility 6.4 Menarche; 6.5 Is leptin needed for the initiation of puberty?; 6.6 Nutrition and fertility in the twentieth century; 6.7 Hutterite women: the upper limit of fertility?; 6.8 Fertility in the bushmen of the Kalahari Desert; 6.9 Effects of chronic malnutrition on fertility: a case study; 6.10 Procreative power; 6.11 Fertility in pre-industrial England; 6.12 Breast-feeding, fertility and population growth in the twentieth century; 6.13 The menopause; 6.14 Does malnutrition really affect fecundity? 6.15 Overview of the fertility levels in England during a 400-year period
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910143505503321

Autore	Scott Susan <1953->
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Science, 2002
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (384 p.)
Disciplina	363.809 614.409
Altri autori (Persone)	DuncanC. J (Christopher John)
Soggetto topico	Food supply - History Diet - History Demographic anthropology Nutritional anthropology
ISBN	1-280-19932-6 9786610199327 0-470-70956-1 0-470-77745-1 0-470-77448-7 1-4051-2337-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1.1 The history of human diet; 1.2 The diet of the hunter-gatherers; 1.3 Demographic change linked to the beginnings of agriculture; 1.4 To which diet is modern man adapted?; 1.5 Consequences of an agricultural life-style; 1.6 Domestication of animals; 1.7 Interactions between demographic pressures and diet; 1.8 Height and nutrition; 1.9 The working class diet in pre-industrial England; Chapter 2 Mortality Oscillations in 404 English Parishes - a Metapopulation Study; 2.1 Use of time-series analysis techniques 2.2 Exogenous oscillations in 404 parishes 2.3 The role of wheat prices in driving exogenous population oscillations; 2.4 Short wavelength oscillation in baptisms in 404 parishes; 2.5 Conclusions; Chapter 3 The Staple Food Supply: Fluctuating Wheat Prices and Malnutrition; 3.1 Hypotheses to account for fluctuating grain prices; 3.2 Sources for the data series; 3.3 Cycles in the wheat price index; 3.4 Oats and barley price indices; 3.5 Correspondence between the grain price indices in England; 3.6 The effect of seasonal temperatures on wheat prices; 3.7 The effect of rainfall on wheat prices 3.8 Wheat prices and short wavelength temperature cycles 3.9 Use of a predicted wheat prices series; 3.10 What drove the different cycles in wheat prices?; 3.11 Rust and other parasitic infestations of grain crops; 3.12 Conclusions; Chapter 4 Famine; 4.1 Major famines in world history; 4.2 The demographic impact of famine; 4.3 Changes in fertility; 4.4 The Bangladesh famine of 1974-5: a case study; 4.5 The Dutch famine of 1944-5: a case study; 4.6 The siege of Leningrad, 1941-4; 4.7 Why do women survive famine better than men?; 4.8 Famines in pre-industrial England 4.9 Famine at Penrith, Cumbria, 1623: a case study 4.10 Interacting economic factors causing famines in northwest England; 4.11 The mortality crisis of 1623 in northwestern England; 4.12 Conclusions; Chapter 5 Long-term Demographic Effects of even a Small Famine; 5.1 Endogenous oscillations in the population at Penrith, Cumbria, England; 5.2 Modelling the population dynamics; 5.3 Incorporation of density-dependent constraints into the matrix model; 5.4 Conclusions: endogenous population oscillations; Chapter 6 Fertility; 6.1 The importance of body fat; 6.2 Adipose tissue 6.3 The role of leptin in the control of fertility 6.4 Menarche; 6.5 Is leptin needed for the initiation of puberty?; 6.6 Nutrition and fertility in the twentieth century; 6.7 Hutterite women: the upper limit of fertility?; 6.8 Fertility in the bushmen of the Kalahari Desert; 6.9 Effects of chronic malnutrition on fertility: a case study; 6.10 Procreative power; 6.11 Fertility in pre-industrial England; 6.12 Breast-feeding, fertility and population growth in the twentieth century; 6.13 The menopause; 6.14 Does malnutrition really affect fecundity? 6.15 Overview of the fertility levels in England during a 400-year period
Record Nr.	UNISA-996218166903316

Autore	Ulijaszek Stanley J.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (vii, 405 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	599.93/8
Collana	Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology
Soggetto topico	Human evolution Prehistoric peoples - Food Human behavior - Nutritional aspects Food habits - History Diet - History Nutrition - History
ISBN	1-139-79349-7 1-139-88708-4 1-139-77608-8 1-139-77912-5 1-139-78325-4 1-139-04679-9 1-139-78211-8 1-283-71453-1 1-139-77760-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Part I. The Animal Within: 2. Locating human diet in a mammalian framework; 3. Diet and hominin evolution; 4. Seasonality of environment and diet; 5. Evolution of human diet and eating behaviour; Part II. A Brave New World: 6. When our brains left our bodies behind: dietary change and health discordance; 7. Nutrition and infectious disease, past and present; 8. Inequality and nutritional health; Part III. Once Upon a Time in the West: 9. Nutrition transition; 10. Fats in the global balance; 11. Feed the world with carbohydrates; 12. Post-script; Index.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910452681403321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	[Amsterdam], : Leiden University Press, c2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (277 pages) : illustrations, maps
Disciplina	599.9
Altri autori (Persone)	RoebroeksWil
Collana	Open Access e-Books Knowledge Unlatched LUP Academic
Soggetto topico	Human beings - Origin Fossil hominids Diet - History Brain - Evolution
ISBN	1-281-78781-7 9786611787813 90-485-0805-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Guts and Brains: An Integrative Approach to the Hominin Record / Wil Roebroeks -- 2. Notes on the Implications of the Expensive Tissue Hypothesis for Human Biological and Social Evolution / Leslie C. Aiello -- Energetics and the Evolution of Brain Size in Early Homo / William R. Leondard, Marcia L. Robertson and J. Josh Snodgrass -- The Evolution of Diet, Brain and Life History among Primates and Humans / Hillard S. Kaplan [and five others] -- Why Hominins Had Big Brains / Robin I.M. Dunbar -- Ecological Hypotheses for Human Brain Evolution: Evidence for Skill and Learning Processes in the Ethnographic Literature on Hunting / Katharine MacDonald -- Haak en Steek - The Tool that Allowed Hominins to Colonize the African Savanna and to Flourish There / R. Dale Guthrie -- Women of the Middle Latitudes. The Earliest Peopling of Europe from a Female Perspective / Margherita Mussi -- The Diet of Early Hominins: Some Things We Need to Know before "Reading" the Menu from the Archaeological Record / Lewis R. Binford -- Diet Shift at the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic Transition in Europe? The Stable Isotope Evidence / Michael P. Richards -- The Evolution of the Human Niche: Integrating Models with the Fossil Record / Najma Anwar, Katharine MacDonald, Wil Roebroeks, and Alexander Verpoorle.
Record Nr.	UNISA-996209706503316