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Skeletal sex and gender in Merovingian mortuary archaeology
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This article is published in Antiquity.The article was published on 2000-09-01. It has received 15 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Osteology.read more
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Merovingian mortuary archaeology and the making of the early Middle Ages
TL;DR: Effros as discussed by the authors traces the history of Merovingian archaeology within its cultural and intellectual context and exposes biases and prejudices that have colored previous interpretations of these burial sites and assesses what contemporary archaeology can tell us about the Frankish kingdoms.
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Conceiving sex: Fomenting a feminist bioarchaeology
TL;DR: There has always been sex in bioarchaeology as mentioned in this paper, and biological sex, as a fundamental category of skeletal analysis, is dualistic, innate, and unchanging, which is a common belief among researchers.
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Gender and the End of Empire
TL;DR: The problem of the "Fall of the Roman Empire" continues to excite debate among historians and archaeologists, fifteen centuries after Odoacer deposed the usurper Romulus in 476 as mentioned in this paper.
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Unity and Diversity in the European Iron Age: Out of the Mists, Some Clarity?
TL;DR: The authors see Iron Age Europe as a series of interactive societies with both broad similarities and sharp regional, even local, differences, moving through time and ever-changing relationships, influences, and trajectories.
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Accuracy and direction of error in the sexing of the skeleton: Implications for paleodemography
TL;DR: Determinations of sex by subjective assessment of the skulls from a skeletal series of known sex were compared to fully independent assessments based on pelves of the same specimens, and estimations based on the pelves were generally superior to both in terms of frequency and overall bias of error.
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Authenticating DNA Extracted From Ancient Skeletal Remains
TL;DR: Work with a range of Holocene skeletal material from domestic animals and humans suggests that more than 50% of skeletal remains from the past two thousand years are likely to contain amplifiable endogenous DNA, but that in the case of human material great care is needed to distinguish this from contamination introduced before the samples reach the laboratory.
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On the systematic bias in skeletal sexing
TL;DR: Comparison of a large series of sexed adult skeletal populations and a similar series of adult pre-industrial peoples shows that there is a regular and systematic bias in the sexing of adult skeletons.
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Sex Determination of Ancient Human Skeletons Using DNA
TL;DR: The sex of 19 ancient and 20 modern individuals was accurately determined using this molecular genetic technique, and will be especially useful for juvenile and fragmentary remains when it is difficult, or impossible, to establish an individual's sex from morphological features.