Health and sexual dimorphism at Ban Non Wat: The effects of the intensification of agriculture in prehistoric Southeast Asia

Clark, Angela L.

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“…However, in comparison to the values reported for six Neolithic sites in Central China (0.0%) [ 106 ], the forty per cent for Yin inhabitants seems remarkably elevated. An increase in prevalence has also been found in Southeast Asia with agricultural intensification from Neolithic to Early Bronze Age [ 135 ]. Similarly, studies in North America reveal a significant increase of osteoperiostitis frequency from precontact preagriculturalists to late contact populations [ 136 ] indicating a strong connection between this pathological condition and sedentary agricultural lifeways, and population density.…”

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Osteoarchaeological Studies of Human Systemic Stress of Early Urbanization in Late Shang at Anyang, China

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Through the analysis of human skeletal remains and mortuary practice in Yinxu, this study investigates the impact of early urbanization on the commoners during the Late Shang dynasty (ca. 1250–1046 B.C.). A total of 347 individuals examined in this study represent non-elites who were recovered from two different burial contexts (formally buried in lineage cemeteries and randomly scattered in refuse pits). Frequencies of enamel hypoplasia (childhood stress), cribra orbitalia (childhood stress and frailty) and osteoperiostitis (adult stress) were examined to assess systemic stress exposure. Our results reveal that there was no significant difference in the frequency of enamel hypoplasia between two burial groups and between sexes, suggesting these urban commoners experienced similar stresses during childhood, but significantly elevated levels of cribra orbitalia and osteoperiostitis were observed in the refuse pit female cohort. Theoretically, urbanization would have resulted in increased population density in the urban centre, declining sanitary conditions, and increased risk of resource shortage. Biologically, children would be more vulnerable to such physiological disturbance; as a result, high percentages of enamel hypoplasia (80.9% overall) and cribra orbitalia (30.3% overall) are observed in Yin commoners. Adults continued to suffer from stress, resulting in high frequencies of osteoperiostitis (40.0% total adults); in particular, in the refuse pit females who may also reflect a compound impact of gender inequality. Our data show that the non-elite urban population in the capital city of Late Shang Dynasty had experienced extensive stress exposure due to early urbanization with further social stratification only worsening the situation, and eventually contributing to collapse of the Shang Dynasty.

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Osteoarchaeological Studies of Human Systemic Stress of Early Urbanization in Late Shang at Anyang, China

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“…. between skeletal samples, and a few have recently applied this technique with encouraging results (Clark, 2013;. .…”

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“…An odds ratio of 1.0 represents identical prevalence between the two samples. between skeletal samples, and a few have recently applied this technique with encouraging results (Clark, 2013;. Odds ratios, of course, are characterized by various limitations.…”

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Frontiers in the bioarchaeology of stress and disease: Cross‐disciplinary perspectives from pathophysiology, human biology, and epidemiology

Klaus

2014

American J Phys Anthropol

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Over the last four decades, bioarchaeology has experienced significant technical growth and theoretical maturation. Early 21st century bioarchaeology may also be enhanced from a renewed engagement with the concept of biological stress. New insights on biological stress and disease can be gained from cross-disciplinary perspectives regarding human skeletal variation and disease. First, pathophysiologic and molecular signaling mechanisms can provide more precise understandings regarding formation of pathological phenotypes in bone. Using periosteal new bone formation as an example, various mechanisms and pathways are explored in which new bone can be formed under conditions of biological stress, particularly in bone microenvironments that involve inflammatory changes. Second, insights from human biology are examined regarding some epigenetic factors and disease etiology. While epigenetic effects on stress and disease outcomes appear profoundly influential, they are mostly invisible in skeletal tissue. However, some indirect and downstream effects, such as the developmental origins of adult health outcomes, may be partially observable in bioarchaeological data. Emerging perspectives from the human microbiome are also considered. Microbiomics involves a remarkable potential to understand ancient biology, disease, and stress. Third, tools from epidemiology are examined that may aid bioarchaeologists to better cope with some of the inherent limitations of skeletal samples to better measure and quantify the expressions of skeletal stress markers. Such cross-disciplinary synergisms hopefully will promote more complete understandings of health and stress in bioarchaeological science.

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“…In essence, deterioration in the overall quality of life is commonly associated with the transition to a reliance on agricultural crops with a reduction in the nutritional value of food, and an increase in sedentary living arrangements and population size, leading to an increase in infectious disease (Larsen, 1995;Pinhasi and Stock, 2011). However, recent biological anthropological research in mainland Southeast Asia and Taiwan has questioned the universal applicability of this central model by showing that human responses to the introduction of agricultural resources were more complex and regionally variable than previously thought (Cheng-Yi et al, 2016;Clark, 2014;Clark, A.L. et al, 2014;Dhavale et al, 2017;Domett, 2001;Domett and Tayles, 2006;Douglas, 1996;Halcrow et al, 2016;Tayles et al, 2009).…”

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Biological Anthropology in the Indo-Pacific Region: New Approaches to Age-Old Questions

Clark

King

Buckley

et al. 2017

JIPA

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Health and sexual dimorphism at Ban Non Wat: The effects of the intensification of agriculture in prehistoric Southeast Asia

Cited by 22 publications

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Osteoarchaeological Studies of Human Systemic Stress of Early Urbanization in Late Shang at Anyang, China

Osteoarchaeological Studies of Human Systemic Stress of Early Urbanization in Late Shang at Anyang, China

Frontiers in the bioarchaeology of stress and disease: Cross‐disciplinary perspectives from pathophysiology, human biology, and epidemiology

Biological Anthropology in the Indo-Pacific Region: New Approaches to Age-Old Questions

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