Brief communication: menarche is related to fat distribution.

abstract：:Recent research findings have highlighted the importance of early life conditions as risk factors for adult diseases and therefore determinants of subsequent survival. Given that individuals born during different seasons in seasonal environments experience different early-developmental conditions, an analysis of the e...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Muñoz-Tudurí M,García-Moro C

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The present study tests the effectiveness of entheseal robusticity (ER) as a potential predictor of adult age-at-death by applying multiple regression models to a large contemporary identified skeletal sample. MATERIALS AND METHODS:ER was recorded for 23 bilateral postcranial entheses on 481 adult individua...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Milella M,Belcastro MG,Mariotti V,Nikita E

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Vertical clinging and climbing have been integral to hypotheses about primate origins, yet little is known about how an animal with nails instead of claws resists gravity while on large, vertical, and cylindrical substrates. Here we test models of how force is applied to maintain posture, predicting (1) the ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Johnson LE,Hanna J,Schmitt D

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A suite of measurements was collected from the talus, calcaneus, navicular, and cuboid of humans from Southern China, Victorian Britain, Roman Britain, and Zulu tribes people from the Republic of South Africa. Univariate and multivariate statistical analyses of dimensions of individual foot bones revealed subtle but d...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Kidd RS,Oxnard CE

更新日期：2002-02-01 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：:With the development of computed tomography, soft tissues and foreign body collections are distinguished with remarkable resolution. This distinction is particularly useful when examining desiccated human remains, both in construction of research strategies and when invasive procedure (i.e., traditional autopsies, nee...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Wong PA

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents the results of a study of infant diet at two Iron Age sites on the island of Öland, Sweden. The cemetery at Bjärby contained a large number of subadults who had survived the earliest years of life, whereas most individuals at Triberga had died by 6 months of age. To investigate whether difference...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Howcroft R,Eriksson G,Lidén K

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrapopulational tooth striation variability has been studied in a sample of 99 individuals from the medieval agricultural population of La Olmeda (Palencia, Spain). The number, length, and orientation of all observed striations were recorded using a scanning electron microscope and an image analyzer system. Tooth st...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Pérez-Pérez A,Lalueza C,Turbón D

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that some observed patterns of force production in the primate masticatory system match those predicted by a simplified lever model. This model is also commonly invoked in adaptive explanations of craniodental diversity. However, systematic studies of the predictive power of this model are missi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Spencer MA

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Miles system of ageing, based upon analysis of the rate of molar wear, was evaluated using the available dental sample from Tepe Hissar, Iran. The independently estimated ages for the mandibles and maxillae of the same individuals were found to be highly correlated (r = 0.87, p less than 0.001). Ages of a subsampl...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Nowell GW

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the development of a knuckle walking mode of locomotion by a free-living yellow baboon (Papio cynocephalus). Some implications of this occurrence for theories of the evolution of knuckle walking are discussed. ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hausfater G

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:First ribs bear information about thorax morphology and are usually well preserved, compared to other ribs, in bone/fossil samples. Several studies have addressed ontogeny of the first rib by studying changes in bone microanatomy and rib morphology separately, but no studies have combined both approaches to ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： García-Martínez D,Gil OG,Cambra-Moo O,Canillas M,Rodríguez MA,Bastir M,Martín AG

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent discovery of unexpectedly ancient human remains has fuelled interest about the first dispersion of Homo outside Africa. The Dmanisi mandible is perhaps one of the most interesting findings, as it supposedly represents one of the oldest hominids outside of Africa. Recently, different interpretations have bee...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rosas A,Bermúdez de Castro JM

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sattenspiel and Harpending (1983, American Antiquity 48(3): 489-498) have stated that the life expectancy at birth (e0(0] which paleodemographers calculate from skeletal population data is actually the mean age at death (ad) of the population. Yet, only when a population is neither growing or declining (i.e., is stati...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Horowitz S,Armelagos G,Wachter K

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Early Byzantine (A.D. 330-842) monastic rules stipulated that entrants relinquished familial connections, personal belongings and secular relationships to become part of the ascetic collective that continued in death, resulting in bioarchaeological marginalization, as was the case of the monastics excavated ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Judd MA

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The histological method developed by Stout and Paine ([1992] Aln. J. Phys. Antropol. 87:111-115) for estimating age at death using the clavicle is tested on a known age independent sample from a nineteenth century cemetery near Spitalfriedhof St. Johann in Basel, Switzerland. The mean absolute difference between repor...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Stout SD,Porro MA,Perotti B

更新日期：1996-05-01 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：:A virtually complete skeleton recovered from excavations in a Late Upper Paleolithic context by Cardini between 1940 and 1942 at the Arene Candide cave (NW Italy) lacks the normal development of the left and right lesser trochanters. The specimen is a short-statured male about 25 years old and shows no other especiall...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Formicola V,Frayer DW,Heller JA

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Differences in dental caries prevalence between males and females is considered a reflection of diet. However, recent syntheses argue that sex-specific variation in dental caries prevalence also reflects changes in the oral cavity attributable to variation in reproductive life histories. This study explores ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Kubehl K,Temple DH

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual dimorphism is a pervasive phenomenon among anthropoid primates. Comparative analyses over the past 30 years have greatly expanded our understanding of both variation in the expression of dimorphism among primates, and the underlying causes of sexual dimorphism. Dimorphism in body mass and canine tooth size is f...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Plavcan JM

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In placental mammals, pregnancy usually is associated with an increase in maternal androgens, which may significantly impact fetal growth and differentiation, and affect postnatal development and behavior. Owing to their slow life histories and challenging social conditions, determination of maternal androgens and pot...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Fürtbauer I,Heistermann M,Schülke O,Ostner J

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Little research exists documenting levels of intestinal inflammation among indigenous populations where exposure to macroparasites, like soil-transmitted helminths (STHs), is common. Reduced STH exposure is hypothesized to contribute to increased prevalence of elevated intestinal inflammation in wealthy nati...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Cepon-Robins TJ,Gildner TE,Schrock J,Eick G,Bedbury A,Liebert MA,Urlacher SS,Madimenos FC,Harrington CJ,Amir D,Bribiescas RG,Sugiyama LS,Snodgrass JJ

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Farming is among the three most hazardous occupations in modern society and perhaps also held a similar position during the medieval period. The goal of this study was to determine if there is a significant difference in frequencies and patterns of longbone fracture trauma observed between rural and urban activity bas...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Judd MA,Roberts CA

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metric and morphological characterizations of the permanent teeth from a total of 155 prehistoric Amerindians are presented. The individuals represent samples from three Ohio Valley burial complexes (considered together as the Late Diffuse group): Glacial Kame, Adena and Ohio Hopewell. Metric data include common measu...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Sciulli PW

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study is to report and interpret a feature on the anterolateral surface of the proximal femurs of the Krapina hominid collection that we briefly described in 2006 (Periodicum Biologorum, 108, 319-329). MATERIALS AND METHODS:We recorded the presence or absence of the feature in all the pr...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Belcastro MG,Mariotti V

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atypical wear and oral lesions were studied in the dental remains from the Middle Neolithic Pitted Ware Culture site Ajvide on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. Teeth (n = 764) from 17 males and 11 females were examined microscopically to document unusual wear, assess wear patterns and oral lesions as evidence ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Molnar P

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

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：:This article examines social and environmental influences on the development of hypertension in a sample of 568 adults (290 men; 278 women) aged 20 years and older from Dakar, Senegal. We test the hypothesis that more recent immigrants to the city of Dakar will have lower blood pressure and lower rates of hypertension...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Duboz P,Macia E,Chapuis-Lucciani N,Boëtsch G,Gueye L

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gilbert-McKern method for aging the female Os pubis has attained popularity following Gilbert's ('73) demonstration that the McKern-Stewart male standards are not directly applicable to females. In order to assess the reliability of the method, forensic anthropologists were asked to age a set of 11 pubes of known ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Suchey JM

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The Taung hominin fossil was recovered in 1924 during quarry operations in the tufa formations of the Buxton Limeworks. Reconstructions of the depositional environment of the juvenile Australopithecus skull have concentrated on the types of caves that form within the tufa. Hopley et al. (Am J Phys Anthropol ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： McKee JK

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00