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Migrations and Health: interrelations among immigrants in Catalonia
Nowadays, it is very common to associate immigration with illness; the relative novelty of immigration in Catalonia and the absence of specialized studies help to perpetuate this vision. The results of this dissertation, written by Pau Mota and...
Women's identity in the Age of Bronze
Discussions on social equality and inequality have occupied a central position in the social sciences and the humanities, and archaeology is a good example of it. In this work, the author analyzes the topics of equality and identity of the women of the Argaric Culture,which...
Estimating the age of the dead
The estimation of age-at-death of human osteological remains is important for both Anthropology and Forensic Medicine. In spite of its importance, adult age estimation is still not very accurate. For this reason there has been a growing interest in exploring new approaches, which include probability...
Plants and child health in the Bolivian Amazon
Researchers of several universities, among them UAB, have analyzed the relation between the ethnobotanical knowledge of Tsimane´ mothers -an ethnic group of the Bolivian Amazon- and the health of their children. Researchers have concluded that children with mothers with...
Cultural anthropologists find that the Darwinist explanation of sexual behavior have a lot of undesirable ideological slants. Machoism is an example. They are right, but only partly. Ambrosio Loyal Garcia exposes in his thesis how to detect these distorted visions about the adaptationist program. According to its conclusions we have to review...
In a recent expedition to Menorca, a team of anthropologists from the UAB Biological Anthropology Unit studied human remains from around 3000 years ago in a sepulchral cave, the Cova des Pas.
