Evidence for bronze age cannibalism in El Mirador Cave (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain).

abstract：:A very limiting factor for paleoanthropological studies is the poor state of preservation of the human fossil record, where fragmentation and deformation are considered normal. Although anatomical information can still be gathered from a distorted fossil, such specimens must typically be excluded from advanced morphol...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Benazzi S,Gruppioni G,Strait DS,Hublin JJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Femoral head size provides important information on body size in extinct species. Although it is well-known that femoral head size is correlated with acetabular size, the precision with which femoral head size can be estimated from acetabular size has not been quantified. The availability of accurate 3D surface models...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Plavcan JM,Hammond AS,Ward CV

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between ethnicity and biology is of interest to anthropologists, biomedical scientists, and historians in understanding how human groups are constructed. Ethnic self-identification in recently admixed groups such as Hispanics, African Americans, and Native Americans (NA) is likely to be complex due to...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Klimentidis YC,Miller GF,Shriver MD

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seasonal change in time spent for terrestrial behavior of chimpanzees was investigated from the viewpoint of the distribution of food and microclimate in the forest at Bossou, Guinea, West Africa. Daily and monthly data for activity budgets of three focal animals, climatic variables in the forest, and indices of fruit...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Takemoto H

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extensive (n = 739) sample of well-documented male pubic bones was examined for age-related features. Using the traditional aging methods, Todd's system was found to over-age and both the Todd and the McKern-Stewart systems did not account for age variability seen in advanced pubic bone patterns. Based on a 5-year ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Katz D,Suchey JM

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mummies are human remains with preservation of nonbony tissue. Mummification by natural influences results in so-called natural mummies, whereas mummification induced by active (human) intervention results in so-called artificial mummies, although many cultures practiced burial rites, which to some degree involved bot...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lynnerup N

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ancient genomes from multiple Neanderthal and the Denisovan individuals, along with DNA sequence data from diverse contemporary human populations strongly support the prevalence of gene flow among different hominins. Recent studies now provide evidence for multiple gene flow events that leave genetic signatures in ext...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gokcumen O

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present report follows up on the findings of previous research, including recent bioarchaeological study of well-dated Khoesan skeletal remains, that posits long term biological continuity among the indigenous peoples of South Africa after the Pleistocene. The Arizona State University Dental Anthropology System wa...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Irish JD,Black W,Sealy J,Ackermann RR

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of nine polymorphic loci for 82 North Amerindian populations was undertaken to test the hypothesis that increasing levels of sociocultural complexity are ineluctably accompanied by increased heterozygosity. The data reveal a significant relationship in the predicted direction. Moreover, the significant correl...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Suarez BK,O'Rourke DH,Crouse JD

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Root dentine transparency (RDT) was used to estimate the ages of human subjects from 152 intact teeth. Teeth were from 134 subjects, both historical and recent, of known age and sex. The aims of this work are 1) to compare two methods of using RDT to estimate age; 2) to test the applicability of the regression formula...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Drusini A,Calliari I,Volpe A

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the extensive electromyographic research that has addressed limb muscle function during primate quadrupedalism, the role of the back muscles in this locomotor behavior has remained undocumented. We report here the results of an electromyographic (EMG) analysis of three intrinsic back muscles (multifidus, longi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Shapiro LJ,Jungers WL

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A range of variation in percent of oxygen saturation of arterial hemoglobin (SaO2) among healthy individuals at a given high altitude indicates differences in physiological hypoxemia despite uniform ambient hypoxic stress. In populations native to the Tibetan plateau, a significant portion of the variance is attributa...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Beall CM,Almasy LA,Blangero J,Williams-Blangero S,Brittenham GM,Strohl KP,Decker MJ,Vargas E,Villena M,Soria R,Alarcon AM,Gonzales C

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The island cemetery site of Ostorf (Germany) consists of individual human graves containing Funnel Beaker ceramics dating to the Early or Middle Neolithic. However, previous isotope and radiocarbon analysis demonstrated that the Ostorf individuals had a diet rich in freshwater fish. The present study was und...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Fernandes R,Grootes P,Nadeau MJ,Nehlich O

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The differences in trace element concentrations among 19 different bone elements procured from 10 archaeologically derived human skeletons have been investigated. The 10 individuals are dated archaeologically and some by radiocarbon dating to the medieval and post-medieval period, an interval from ca. AD 115...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lund Rasmussen K,Skytte L,D'imporzano P,Orla Thomsen P,Søvsø M,Lier Boldsen J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodic episodes of food scarcity may highlight the adaptive value of certain anatomical traits, particularly those that facilitate the acquisition and digestion of exigent fallback foods. To better understand the selective pressures that favored the distinctive dental and locomotor morphologies of gibbons and orangu...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Vogel ER,Haag L,Mitra-Setia T,van Schaik CP,Dominy NJ

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this paper is to provide skin color data on several endogamous groups of eastern Nepal and to demonstrate genetic microdifferentiation in skin color. Skin reflectance measures were taken at the upper inner arm and forehead sites, using the British DSL Model 99 Reflectance Spectrophotometer fitted with b...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Williams-Blangero S,Blangero J

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparison of hand long-bone lengths and variances in published measurements of North American Caucasoid, Venezuelan, and English individuals, and of their metacarpophalangeal pattern profiles (MPP), revealed systematic differences between samples from infancy through adulthood. The variances of Venezuelan males tend ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Arias-Cazorla S,Rodríguez-Larralde A

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since its discovery in southeastern Uzbekistan in 1938, the Teshik-Tash child has been considered a Neandertal. Its affinity is important to studies of Late Pleistocene hominin growth and development as well as interpretations of the Central Asian Middle Paleolithic and the geographic distribution of Neandertals. A cl...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Glantz M,Athreya S,Ritzman T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The higher primate scapula has been subject to many explanations of the putative "adaptive value" of its individual traits. However, the shift from the bone's position in above branch quadrupeds to its more posterolateral position in recent hominoids obviously required fundamental changes to its general form...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Selby MS,Lovejoy CO

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of the maxillary complex of 36 rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) was analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively during four defined stages of postnatal development (i.e., infant, juvenile, adolescent, young adult). At each stage, growth was observed during a 24 week period. Since some animals were observed dur...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： McNamara JA Jr,Riolo ML,Enlow DH

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Principal components analysis was used to quantify the variability in crown outlines of maxillary molars in Australian Aboriginals. The outlines were measured by 36 radii from the central pit to the crown periphery. The first component, responsible for over half of the total variance, was concerned with general crown ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Yamada H,Brown T

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the skeletal maturity status of Japanese children in Western Kyushu and its variation within Japanese populations. Hand-wrist skeletal maturity was assessed by the Tanner-Whitehouse (1975) (TW2) method from radiographs of 500 boys and 485 girls aged from 4 to 15 years. Western Kyushu children show...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Takai S,Akiyoshi T

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Additional fossil Theropithecus remains, recovered from mid to late Pleistocene deposits near Hopefield , South Africa, include portions of the jaws of at least five individuals. Extensive comparisons with fossil Theropithecus from other African sites, including Makapan , Swartkrans , Kanjera , Olorgesailie , and Oldu...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Dechow PC,Singer R

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One trait that distinguishes the walking gaits of most primates from those of most mammalian nonprimates is the distribution of weight between the forelimbs and hindlimbs. Nonprimate mammals generally experience higher vertical peak substrate reaction forces on the forelimb than on the hindlimb. Primates, in contrast,...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hanna JB,Polk JD,Schmitt D

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of tooth wear among prehistoric and recent populations has frequently been concerned with the rate and pattern of wear over the dental arches. In this report we considered the question of tooth wear variation among collections of Australian Aboriginal crania recovered from several sites along the Murray Rive...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Molnar S,Richards L,McKee J,Molnar I

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to reassess previous hypotheses concerning dental size reduction of the posterior teeth during Pleistocene human evolution, current fossil dental evidence is examined. This evidence includes the large sample of hominid teeth found in recent excavations (1984-1993) in the Sima de los Huesos Middle Pleistocene ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Bermúdez de Castro JM,Nicolas ME

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the demographic changes that followed the transition from a hunting-gathering way of life (Natufian) to an agricultural, food-producing economy (Neolithic) in the southern Levant. The study is based on 217 Natufian (10,500-8,300 BC) skeletons and 262 Neolithic (8,300-5,500 BC) skeletons. Age and se...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Eshed V,Gopher A,Gage TB,Hershkovitz I

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leprosy was a well-recognized and dreaded disease in medieval Europe (5th-15th century AD). It is reported to have reached Germany with the Roman invasion. A much larger fraction than previously assumed appears to have been affected by leprosy in the medieval period. This article estimates the frequency (i.e., the pre...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Boldsen JL

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research to understand human genomic variation and its implications in health has great potential to contribute in the reduction of health disparities. Biological anthropology can play important roles in genomics and health disparities research using a biocultural approach. This paper argues that racial/ethnic categor...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Batai K,Hooker S,Kittles RA

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Pursuant to his major research interest in the cultural ecology of hunter-gatherers, Birdsell collected an unparalleled body of phenotypic data on Aboriginal Australians during the mid twentieth century. Birdsell did not explicitly relate the geographic patterning in his data to Australia's climatic variation, instead...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gilligan I,Bulbeck D

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00