From health to civilization stress? in search for traces of a health transition during the Early Neolithic in Europe

The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 501-538

  Wittwer Backofen, Ursula ^a   Tomo, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Central Europe; Foraging; Health; Mesolithic; Neolithic; Neolithic demographic transition (NDT); Nutrition; Pathology; Skeletal markers; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867575361     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8539-0_19     Document Type: Chapter

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