Female biased adult sex ratio in the Bronze Age cemetery of Shahr-i Sokhta (Iran) as an indicator of long distance trade and matrilocality.
Giorgia VincentiLudovica MolinaroSeyed Mansur Seyed SajjadiHossein MoradiLuca PaganiPier Francesco FabbriPublished in: American journal of biological anthropology (2024)
Indicators suggest that Bronze Age Shahr-ì Sokhta was a matrilocal society and that long distance trade was an important economic factor producing an overrepresentation of adult female skeletons in the cemetery.
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