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Bioarchaeology and Behavior
While mortuary ruins have long fascinated archaeologists and art historians interested in the cultures of the Near East and eastern Mediterranean, the human skeletal remains contained in the tombs of this region have garnered less attention. InBioarchaeology and Behavior, Megan Perry presents a collection of essays that aim a spotlight on the investigation of the ancient inhabitants of the circum-Mediterranean area.
Composed of eight diverse papers, this volume synthesizes recent research on human skeletal remains and their archaeological and historical contexts in this region. Utilizing an environmental, social, and political framework, the contributors present scholarly case studies on such topics as the region's mortuary archaeology, genetic investigations of migration patterns, and the ancient populations' health, disease, and diet.
Other key anthropological issues addressed in this volume include the effects of the domestication of plants and animals, the rise of state-level formations, and the role of religion in society. Ultimately, this collection will provide anthropologists, archaeologists, and bioarchaeologists with an important foundation for future research in the Near East and eastern Mediterranean.
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The backbone of Europe : health, diet, work and violence over two millennia
\"Using human skeletal remains, this volume traces health, workload and violence in the European population over the past 2,000 years. Health was surprisingly good for people who lived during the early Medieval Period. The Plague of Justinian of the 6th century was ultimately beneficial for health because the smaller population had relatively more resources that contributed to better living conditions. Increasing population density and inequality in the following centuries imposed an unhealthy diet - poor in protein - on the European population. With the onset of the Little Ice Age in the late Middle Ages, a further health decline ensued, which was not reversed until the nineteenth century. While some aspects of health declined, other attributes improved. During the early modern period, interpersonal violence (outside of warfare) declined possibly because stronger states and institutions were able to enforce compromise and cooperation. European health over the past two millennia was hence multifaceted in nature\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East
Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near Eastis among the first comprehensive treatments to present the diverse ways in which ancient Near Eastern civilizations memorialized and honored their dead, using mortuary rituals, human skeletal remains, and embodied identities as a window into the memory work of past societies.
In six case studies, teams of researchers with different skillsets-osteological analysis, faunal analysis, culture history and the analysis of written texts, and artifact analysis-integrate mortuary analysis with bioarchaeological techniques. Drawing upon different kinds of data, including human remains, ceramics, jewelry, spatial analysis, and faunal remains found in burial sites from across the region's societies, the authors paint a robust and complex picture of death in the ancient Near East.Demonstrating the still underexplored potential of bioarchaeological analysis in ancient societies,Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near Eastserves as a model for using multiple lines of evidence to reconstruct commemoration practices. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian societies, the archaeology of death and burial, bioarchaeology, and human skeletal biology.
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Bioarchaeology : interpreting behavior from the human skeleton
\"Now including numerous full colour figures, this updated and revised edition of Larsen's classic text provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of bioarchaeology. Reflecting the enormous advances made in the field over the past twenty years, the author examines how this discipline has matured and evolved in fundamental ways. Jargon free and richly illustrated, the text is accompanied by copious case studies and references to underscore the central role that human remains play in the interpretation of life events and conditions of past and modern cultures. From the origins and spread of infectious disease to the consequences of decisions made by humans with regard to the kinds of foods produced, and their nutritional, health and behavioral outcomes. With local, regional, and global perspectives, this up-to-date text provides a solid foundation for all those working in the field\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Bioarchaeology of East Asia
Interprets human skeletal collections from a region where millets, rice, and several other important cereals were cultivated, leading to attendant forms of agricultural development that were accompanied by significant technological innovations. The contributors follow the diffusion of these advanced ideas to other parts of Asia, and unravel a maze of population movements. In addition, they explore the biological implications of relatively rare subsistence strategies more or less unique to East Asia: millet agriculture, mobile pastoralism with limited cereal farming, and rice farming combined with reliance on marine resources.
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Bioarchaeology and behavior : the people of the ancient Near East
An archaeological exploration of the ancient inhabitants of the circum-Mediterranean region exploring their migration patterns, health, and diet.
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Non-Standard Squat Posture Detection Method Using Human Skeleton
Squats are essential for assessing lower limb strength. However, performing them incorrectly without professional guidance often leads to sports injuries. Currently, most detection methods rely heavily on deep neural networks and massive datasets. This approach brings several downsides. It involves high data labeling costs and heavy computing demands. It is also difficult to achieve low-latency feedback on mobile devices. Furthermore, these models often lack robustness when dealing with individual body differences. To tackle these issues, we propose a new real-time squat detection method. Our approach is built on prior rules and statistical models. Here is how it works. First, we use MediaPipe to track the body’s skeleton joints in real-time from video feeds, calculating the hip and knee angles frame by frame. Next, we build a hip-knee coordination model using linear regression. This step helps us measure how these joints move together dynamically. Finally, we verify the squat depth using a geometry-based tolerance mechanism. This feature accounts for measurement noise and natural body variations, allowing us to accurately judge if the overall posture is standard. We tested our approach on three different squat styles. The results show that our method catches improper forms quickly and efficiently in real time, achieving an accuracy of 90%.
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Skeletal variation and adaptation in Europeans : upper Paleolithic to the twentieth century
A comprehensive analysis of changes in body form and skeletal robusticity from the Terminal Pleistocene through the Holocene, leading to the modern European human phenotype. Skeletal Variation and Adaptation in Europeans: Upper Paleolithic to the Twentieth Century brings together for the first time the results of an unprecedented large-scale investigation of European skeletal remains. The study was conducted over ten years by an international research team, and includes more than 2,000 skeletons spanning most of the European continent over the past 30,000 years, from the Early Upper Paleolithic to the 20th century. This time span includes environmental transitions from foraging to food production, small-scale to large-scale urban settlements, increasing social stratification and mechanization of labor, and climatic changes. Alterations in body form and behavior in response to these transitions are reconstructed through osteometric and biomechanical analyses. Divided into four sections, the book includes an introduction to the project and comprehensive descriptions of the methods used; general continent-wide syntheses of major trends in body size, shape, and skeletal robusticity; detailed regional analyses; and a summary of results. It also offers a full data set on an external website. * Brings together data from an unprecedented large-scale study of human skeletal and anatomical variations * Includes appendix of specific information from each research site * Synthesizes data from spatial, temporal, regional, and geographical perspectives Skeletal Variation and Adaptation in Europeans will be a valuable resource for bioarchaeologists, palaeoanthropologists, forensic anthropologists, medical historians, and archaeologists at both the graduate and post-graduate level.
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Analysis of Artificial Intelligence Technology and Its Application in Improving the Effectiveness of Physical Education Teaching
To promote the construction of public physical education online courses in colleges and universities and the evaluation of the effectiveness of course teaching, this article combines 3D reconstruction techniques in computer vision to construct a set of human body shape reconstruction models and apply them to physical training exercises and teaching effectiveness assessment tasks. Specifically, first, the joint point location information of the human body in the input image is extracted using the human skeleton analysis algorithm, and modeling the foreground and background pose information of the target region using the Pix2Pix image transformation algorithm; second, multi-scale features such as nodal location features, foreground and background features, high-resolution detail features, and low-resolution global features are fused and the extracted multi-scale features are also decoded with the help of pixel-aligned implicit functions to generate a 3D model of the human body representing the human form.
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