Humans: Evolution and Environment

Papers from Sessions C06, C08, C14, C62 and WS32 grouped as 'Humans: Evolution and Environment' from the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). Contents: 1) Authenticity in ancient human mitochondrial DNA studies: A review (Rafael Montiel); 2) Improving inferences on past human migrations: new data from complete mitochondrial sequencing studies (Luísa Pereira); 3) Bioarchaeology of the Sambaqui groups: skeletal morphology, physical stress and trauma (Claudia Rodrigues-Carvalho, Andrea Lessa and Sheila Mendonça de Souza); 4) Coastal versus Riverine Shellmound builders in Brazil: Methodological Issues Regarding Biodistance (Maria Mercedes M. Okumura, Ligia G. Bartolomucci, José Filippini, Rita Vargiu, Sabine Eggers); 5) Microfossils in dental calculus from a Brazilian Shellmound: where did they come from? (Célia Helena Boyadjian, Sabine Eggers, Karl Reinhard); 6) Teeth, nutrition, anemia, infection, mortality: costs of lifestyle at the Coastal Brazilian Sambaquis (Sheila Mendonça de Souza, Veronica Wesolowski, Claudia Rodrigues-Carvalho) 7) The contribution of cranial morphology of human skeletal remains to the understanding of the biological affinities between Coastal and Riverine Shellmounds in Southern Brazil (Maria Mercedes M. Okumura, Walter A. Neves); 8) Sambaquis the Brazilian Shell Mounds: What is that all about? (Sheila Mendonça de Souza, Claudia Rodrigues Carvalho); 9) Riverine versus Coastal Shellmounds in Brazil (Sabine Eggers); 10) Technical behavior of the Levantine Aurignacian at Raqefet Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel (György Lengyel); 11) Coastal Geoarchaeology: The Research of Shell Mounds, Introduction (Marisa Coutinho Afonso, Geoff Bailey); 12) Shell Mounds, Palimpsests and the Dynamics of Archaeological Site Visibility (Geoff Bailey); 13) Danish Stone Age Shell Middens and applied Geoarchaeological and Bioarchaeological Methods (Nina Nielsen); 14) A ocupação dos grupos pré-históricos de pescadores-coletores em paisagens insulares da Costa do Estado de São Paulo (Manoel M. B. Gonzalez, Sandra Nami Amenomori); 15) The Submerged Shell Mounds of Cananéia, São Paulo, Brazil: A case study of underwater archaeology (Flávio Rizzi Calippo); 16) Microstratigraphy of Shell Middens of Tierra del Fuego (Vila, A.; Estévez, J.; Piana, E.; Madella, M.; Barceló, J.A.; Zurro, D.; Clemente, I.; Terradas, X.; Verdún, E.; Pique, R.; Mameli, L.; Briz, I.); 17) Shellmiddens of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua: Something more than Mounds (Ignacio Clemente Conte, Ermengol Gassiot Ballbè, Leonardo Lechado Ríos); 18) Geoarchaeological Investigations at Shell Mounds, Southern Brazil (Marisa Coutinho Afonso, Laércio Loiola Brochier); 19) Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Evolution - Introduction (Grupo de Estudos em Evolução Humana and Eugénia Cunha); 20) Hammers, anvils & nuts: Chimpanzees technology? Applying the concept of "Chaîne Opératoire" to "nut-cracking" - Interdisciplinary research (Carvalho, S.; Matsuzawa, T.; Sousa, C.; Cunha, E.); 20) Ethology and Palaeolithic Art. Cervids and caprins in the Palaeolithic art of the Côa Valley (Vânia Carvalho); 21) Occupational stress markers in a skeletal sample: interdisciplinary approach (Sandra Assis); 22) Anthropological analysis of the osteological remains of a possible long termed pregnancy (Adro da Igreja Antiga do Olival-Ourém, Portugal) (Cristina Cruz & Rui Marques); 23) Working memory and modern human mind (Manuel Martín-Loeches).