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Healthy but mortal: human biology and the first farmers of western Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Mary Jackes ,
David Lubell  and
Christopher Meiklejohn
Mary Jackes
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, T6G 2H4 Canada. Mary.Jackes@UAlberta.ca
David Lubell
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, T6G 2H4 Canada. Mary.Jackes@UAlberta.ca
Christopher Meiklejohn
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg MB, R3B 2E9 Canada. MEIKLEJOHN_C@C_H.UWINNIPEG.CA
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What do we know about the effects of the transition to agriculture on human biology? A literature has grown up that gives us the impression that we know a great deal about what happened to bones and teeth when people became sedentary farmers. A review of the sources of these ideas and the evidence supporting them, especially based on work in Portugal, reveals that a reconsideration of the biological consequences of farming in Europe is overdue.

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 273 , September 1997 , pp. 639 - 658
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