Archaeology of food : an encyclopedia / / edited by Karen Bescherer Metheny and Mary C. Beaudry |
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 |
Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Archaeology of food : an encyclopedia / / edited by Karen Bescherer Metheny and Mary C. Beaudry |
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-9910806153503321 |
Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Demography and nutrition [[electronic resource] ] : evidence from historical and contemporary populations / / Susan Scott and Christopher J. Duncan |
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 |
Scott Susan <1953-> | ||
Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Science, 2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Demography and nutrition [[electronic resource] ] : evidence from historical and contemporary populations / / Susan Scott and Christopher J. Duncan |
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 |
Scott Susan <1953-> | ||
Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Science, 2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Demography and nutrition : evidence from historical and contemporary populations / / Susan Scott and Christopher J. Duncan |
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 |
Altri titoli varianti | Demography & nutrition |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807426803321 |
Scott Susan <1953-> | ||
Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Science, 2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Evolving human nutrition : implications for public health / / Stanley Ulijaszek, Neil Mann, Sarah Elton [[electronic resource]] |
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 |
Ulijaszek Stanley J. | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Evolving human nutrition : implications for public health / / Stanley Ulijaszek, Neil Mann, Sarah Elton [[electronic resource]] |
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 |
Classificazione | SOC002020 |
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-9910779342803321 |
Ulijaszek Stanley J. | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Evolving human nutrition : implications for public health / / Stanley Ulijaszek, Neil Mann, Sarah Elton [[electronic resource]] |
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 |
Classificazione | SOC002020 |
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-9910828778903321 |
Ulijaszek Stanley J. | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Exploring the materiality of food "stuffs" : transformations, symbolic consumption and embodiment(s) / / edited by Louise Steel and Katharina Zinn |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (316 pages) : illustrations, tables |
Disciplina |
394.1/209
394.1209 |
Collana | Routledge Studies in Archaeology |
Soggetto topico |
Food - Social aspects - History
Food habits - History Diet - History Material culture - History Social change - History |
ISBN |
1-315-67385-1
1-317-37740-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Transformations -- pt. 2. Embodied encounters -- pt. 3. Symbolic consumption. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910150350803321 |
London : , : Routledge, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Guts and brains [[electronic resource] ] : an integrative approach to the hominin record / / edited by Wil Roebroeks |
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 |
[Amsterdam], : Leiden University Press, c2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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