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Metabolic rate (MR) is often cited as the fundamental rate which determines the rate of all biological processes by shaping energetic availability for the various physiological, behavioral, and life-history traits that contribute to performance. Furthermore, the metabolic theory…

Pastoral production systems have been undergoing endogenously and exogenously driven change in recent years. One predominant change in pastoral production systems involves a shift from pure pastoralism to an integration of crop and livestock production. In this study, I explore …

This study investigates the sexual division of meat procurement at Shields Pueblo, a large aggregated village in the Northern San Juan region of Colorado, occupied from ca. A.D. 725-1280. This is primarily achieved through analysis of faunal remains in reference to the environme…

This article-based dissertation examines the impact of male migration and the feminization of agriculture upon the status of women in Rmāyniyya, a village of Northwest Tunisia (delegation of Nefza). It attempts to study the changes that have occurred during the last decades in t…