Subsistence strategy—the method by which a population obtains its food—has likely exerted strong selective pressure on humans for much of our evolutionary history. The genomes of 929 individuals from 54 populations in the HDGP-CEPH dataset were analyzed to characterize populatio…
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The extent and pattern of dental wear are generally interpreted within anthropology as the result of culture-specific subsistence adaptations and/or the use of the teeth as tools. In the context of human evolution, the focus on the teeth as signals for culture change has led to …
Butchery experiments utilizing 12 lithic and organic materials from Java together with microscopic analysis of cut marks have demonstrated that the tool raw material that induced cut marks on animal bones can be identified. Using this technique, I documented 39 cut marks on 4 ex…
The central question I address is whether the inclusion of a right to subsistence among human rights can be justified. The human right to subsistence is conventionally interpreted as a fundamental right to a basic living standard characterized as having access to the material me…
This present research explores the impact of Flannery's (1969) Broad Spectrum Revolution model within the context of the Levantine Epipalaeolithic, specifically the early (Kebaran) Epipalaeolithic. This model attempts to explain changes in subsistence behaviour associated with t…