Observations of the burial places of newborns at the prehistoric site at Lepenski Vir (Serbia) revealed the possibility that deliveries took place inside houses that were heated. Warm houses provided a thermally stable environment which, in turn, could solve the problem of thermoregulation, that is critical for the survival of babies. In this study it is shown that the creation of these good conditions for giving birth could have been an important step in human evolution that could have led to a demographic expansion.
Source:
Documenta Praehistorica, 2006, 33
Publisher:
Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts)
TY - JOUR
AU - Stefanović, Sofija
PY - 2006
UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/627
AB - Observations of the burial places of newborns at the prehistoric site at Lepenski Vir (Serbia) revealed the possibility that deliveries took place inside houses that were heated. Warm houses provided a thermally stable environment which, in turn, could solve the problem of thermoregulation, that is critical for the survival of babies. In this study it is shown that the creation of these good conditions for giving birth could have been an important step in human evolution that could have led to a demographic expansion.
PB - Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts)
T2 - Documenta Praehistorica
T1 - The domestication of human birth
VL - 33
DO - 10.4312/dp.33.15
ER -
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Stefanović, S.. (2006). The domestication of human birth. in Documenta Praehistorica
Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts)., 33.
https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.33.15
Stefanović S. The domestication of human birth. in Documenta Praehistorica. 2006;33.
doi:10.4312/dp.33.15 .
Stefanović, Sofija, "The domestication of human birth" in Documenta Praehistorica, 33 (2006),
https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.33.15 . .
