Body size estimation of small-bodied humans: Applicability of current methods.

abstract：:Craniofacial variables for modern and prehistoric Japanese were subjected to multivariate analysis to test the relationships of the people of Japan with mainland Asian and Oceanic samples. The modern Japanese are tied to Koreans, Chinese, Southeast Asians, and the Yayoi rice agriculturalists who entered Japan in 300 B...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Brace CL,Brace ML,Leonard WR

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines the curvature of the manual proximal and middle phalanges of species belonging to Pan, Gorilla, Ateles, Macaca, Pongo, Hylobates, and Cebus to determine whether middle phalangeal curvature, when considered in conjunction with proximal phalangeal curvature, yields a locomotor signal. Prior studies...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Matarazzo S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Maximum ingested food size (Vb ) is an empirically tested performance variable that can shed light on feeding energetics and adaptation in the masticatory system. Until now, this variable had been tested in strepsirrhines alone among primates. Here, we present the first data on Vb in a broad sample of anthro...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Perry JM,Bastian ML,St Clair E,Hartstone-Rose A

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been argued that techniques for estimating adult age-at-death from cortical histology are deleteriously affected by sampling location. This study uses nine complete femoral midshaft cross-sections to test the effect of sampling site on measurement of a standard histological variable, percent remodeled bone. Cir...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Pfeiffer S,Lazenby R,Chiang J

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mummification methods of an ancient maritime population on the northern coast of Chile are reviewed and the findings in an additional seven individuals are reported. Members of this cultural group, Chinchorro, practiced a selective, elaborate form of artificial mummification which persisted more than 4,000 years. ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Aufderheide AC,Muñoz I,Arriaza B

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of the present study are to 1) determine and describe levels of dental fluctuating asymmetry (FA) in a highly endogamous human group; 2) evaluate the effects of various FA measures on perceived FA levels and their interrelationships; 3) study the connections between dental variables (tooth size, class, positi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hershkovitz I,Livshits G,Moskona D,Arensburg B,Kobyliansky E

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dramatic changes in cranial capacity have characterized human evolution. Important evolutionary hypotheses, such as the spatial packing hypothesis, assert that increases in relative brain size (encephalization) have caused alterations to the modern human skull, resulting in a suite of traits unique among extant primat...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lesciotto KM,Richtsmeier JT

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention is called to a disputed diagnosis of trephination reported for a perforated skull of a prehistoric New England Indian. The perforation, surrounded by a saucer-like depression, is located exactly in the midline just in front of bregma. The finding of a similar lesion in a prehistoric Indian skull from the Nor...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Stewart TD

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The degree of expression of sulcal patterns on endocasts of nonhuman primates has been shown to depend primarily on species (brain size) and age of the individual. It has been suggested that brain details on endocasts are reproduced better in juvenile than adult primates. Here, we investigated age-related ch...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Van Minh N,Hamada Y

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work explores the effects of European contact on Andean foodways in the Lambayeque Valley Complex, north coast Peru. We test the hypothesis that Spanish colonization negatively impacted indigenous diet. Diachronic relationships of oral health were examined from the dentitions of 203 late-pre-Hispanic and 175 colo...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Klaus HD,Tam ME

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene and haplotype frequencies for HLA-A and HLA-B antigens were determined in Milwaukee blood donors of German and Polish descent. Gene frequencies for A25 and B18 were significantly higher in Poles than in Germans. Significant gametic associations were noted for A1-B8, A29-B12 and AW30-B13 in both populations. Gamet...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Stevenson JC,Duquesnoy RJ

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ainu people are considered to be the descendants of preagricultural native populations of northern Japan, while the majority of the population of contemporary Japan (Wajin) is descended mainly from postneolithic migrants. Polymorphisms of the HLA-DRB1, DRB3, and DQB1 alleles were investigated in DNA samples of 50 ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Bannai M,Tokunaga K,Imanishi T,Harihara S,Fujisawa K,Juji T,Omoto K

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food sharing among nonkin-one of the most fascinating cooperative behaviors in humans-is not widespread in nonhuman primates. Over the past few years, a large body of work has investigated the contexts in which primates cooperate and share food with unrelated individuals. This work has successfully demonstrated that s...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Dubuc C,Hughes KD,Cascio J,Santos LR

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An investigation of body height and cephalic measurements was performed among five groups of first-year medical students of the University of Rijeka School of Medicine (Rijeka, Croatia). Body height and different cephalic measurements showed normal distribution, both in male and female students. Differences between me...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Buretić-Tomljanović A,Ristić S,Brajenović-Milić B,Ostojić S,Gombac E,Kapović M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Philippines is generally believed to have been established by various peoples who migrated from neighboring areas. To gain new insights into the peopling of the Philippines, we used the JC virus (JCV) genotyping approach. We collected about 50 urine samples on each of two representative islands of the Philippines,...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Miranda JJ,Sugimoto C,Paraguison R,Takasaka T,Zheng HY,Yogo Y

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:If predictable, ecogeographic patterning in body size and proportions of human populations can provide valuable information regarding human biology, adaptation to local environments, migration histories, and health, now and in the past. This paper evaluates the assumption that small-bodied Later Stone Age (LSA) forage...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Kurki HK,Ginter JK,Stock JT,Pfeiffer S

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An inexpensive anthropometer, suitable for use in undergraduate projects, was constructed from aluminum rod and components designed from laboratory retort stands. Only modest workshop skills and widely available machine tools were required to produce the device, which could be used to take accurate and reproducible me...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Clarke GS

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Stable isotope data provide insight into the reconstruction of ancient human diet. However, cooking may alter the original stable isotope compositions of food due to losses and modifications of biochemical and water components. METHODS:To address this issue, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen isotope ratios were m...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Royer A,Daux V,Fourel F,Lécuyer C

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large body size has been traditionally seen as the primary dietary adaptation of gorillas, facilitating their consumption of fibrous foods (Schaller ¿1963 The Mountain Gorilla; Watts ¿1990 Int. J. Primatol. 11:21-45). Nevertheless, recent research has emphasized frugivory among western lowland gorillas, as well as the...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Remis MJ

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Correlations between ridge-counts on the ten fingers were compared by race and sex in 11 samples representing Negroes and Caucasians: five from subsaharan Africa, one American Black, three European, one American White and one from India. The samples of European ancestry showed no consistent sex difference in mean corr...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Jantz RL

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large collection of identified human skeletons curated at the Bocage Museum (National Museum of Natural History, Lisbon, Portugal) has remained in relative anonymity since its collecting protocol was initiated in the 1980s. This collection originates from modern cemetery sources and is comprised of 1,692 skeletons w...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Cardoso HF

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult males in social groups often compete with other male group members for access to adult females. In some primate species, males also seek mating opportunities in neighboring social groups. Such extra-group fertilizations (EGFs) provide an additional source of variation in male fitness. This additional component o...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lawler RR

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The movement of humans into the Americas remains a major topic of debate among scientific disciplines. Central to this discussion is ascertaining the timing and migratory routes of the earliest colonizers, in addition to understanding their ancestry. Molecular studies have recently argued that the colonizing populatio...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Auerbach BM

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A controlled study of the relationship of two standard clinical indicators of osteoarthritis and porosity failed to demonstrate a relationship. Porosity appears to be a curiosity that has no clinical correlation and is not a sign of an identifiable rheumatologic disorder. It should be deleted as an identifier for oste...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rothschild BM

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies on human energetics have been conducted in developed and developing countries, but very few simultaneously measured time use and energy expenditure. Only a few quantitatively compared subsistence patterns between rural and urban dwellers of an identical population. Here we present the daily physical ac...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Yamauchi T,Umezaki M,Ohtsuka R

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The approximal surfaces of premolars and molars of 376 adult British-Romano skulls were examined for wear facets. The type of wear was designated as convex, concave, sigmoid, or flat, and the degree was categorised on a three-point scale. Concave wear facets were more frequently seen in the older age groups, but the t...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Whittaker DK,Ryan S,Weeks K,Murphy WM

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Museum curators and living communities are sometimes reluctant to permit ancient DNA (aDNA) studies of human skeletal remains because the extraction of aDNA usually requires the destruction of at least some skeletal material. Whether these views stem from a desire to conserve precious materials or an objection to dest...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Bolnick DA,Bonine HM,Mata-Míguez J,Kemp BM,Snow MH,LeBlanc SA

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence has recently accumulated that the Singa calvaria from Sudan probably dates from Oxygen Isotope Stage 6 (>130 ka). Morphological studies have indicated a mixture of archaic and more modern human traits, but such analyses are complicated by the possibility that the vault is pathologically deformed, although the...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Spoor F,Stringer C,Zonneveld F

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：:The distribution of red cell phosphoglucomutase (PGM) subtypes was determined by starch-gel electrophoresis and isoelectric focusing in a group of 2,484 unrelated individuals from ten Mongoloid populations of East Asia. The sample comprised 998 Chinese from various localities--Singapore, 325; Malaysia, 270; Taiwan, 27...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Saha N

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00