摘要: Foreword ( Clark Spencer Larsen). List of Contributors. 1. Introduction: Changing Paradigms in Our Understanding the Transition to Agriculture: Human Bioarchaeology, Behaviour and Adaption (Jay T. Stock Ron Pinhasi). Section A: Subsistence Transitions. 2. Mesolithic-Neolithic Transitions: An Isotopic Tour through Europe (Rick Schulting). 3. The Eastern Europe: Integrating Stable Isotope Studies Diet with Palaeopathology Identify Strategies Economy (Malcolm Lillie Chelsea Budd). 4. Climatic Conditions, Hunting Activities Husbandry Practices Course Neolithic Transition: Story Told by Analyses Animal Skeletal Remains (Gisela Grupe Joris Peters). 5. Health, Social Implications Greece from Study Osteological Material (Anastasia Papathanasiou). 6. Using a Bioarchaeological Approach Explore Transitions Cape, South Africa during Mid- Late Holocene (Jaime K. Ginter). B: Growth Body Size Variation. 7. Long Bone Length, Stature Time European Pleistocene Early (Christopher Mieklejohn Jeff Babb). 8. Variability Patterns Limb Proportions Within Amongst Mesolithic Populations Southeast (Ron Pinhasi, S. Stefanovic, Anastasia Papathanasiou Jay Stock). 9. Reaching Great Heights: Changes Indigenous Stature, Shape Agricultural Intensification North America (Benjamin M. Auerbach). 10. Evolution Postcranial Morphology Prehistoric Japan (Daniel H. Temple). C: Biomechanics Indicators Habitual Activity. 11. Bioarchaeology Activity Dietary Change Siberian Middle (A.R. Lieverse, Stock, M.A. Katzenberg C.M. Haverkort). 12. 'An External Agency Considerable Importance': Stresses Agriculture Foraging-to-Farming (Clark Larsen Christopher Ruff). 13. Mobility Lower Robusticity Pastoralist Population North-Western Italy (Damiano Marchi, Vitale Sparacello Colin Shaw). 14. Size, Biomechanics, Palaeolithic Mid-Dynastic Nile Valley Matthew C. O'Neill, B. Ruff, Melissa Zabecki, Laura Shackelford Jerome Rose). D: Archaeogenetics, Palaeodemography, Cranial Dental Morphology. 15. Palaeopopulationgenetics Humans, Cattle Dairying (Joachim Burger Mark G. Thomas). 16. Genetics New Light on Differences Between Hunter-Gatherers Farmers Southern Sweden (Anna Linderholm). 17. Palaeodemography Levantine Pre-Pottery Populations: Regional Temporal Perspectives (Vered Eshed Ehud Galili). 18. Differentiation at Southernmost Frontier Andean (Marina L. Sardi Marien Beguelin). 19. Reduction Pinhasi Meiklejohn). Index.