Changes in skeletal robusticity in an iron age agropastoral group: the Samnites from the Alfedena necropolis (Abruzzo, Central Italy).

abstract：:The mountain gorillas of the central Virungas have been the subject of field study for the last 30 years; however, our understanding of morbidity and mortality in these apes is limited. This paper describes pathological conditions of the skeleton and dentition of these animals and evaluates lesions in relation to beha...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lovell NC

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adventus Saxonum is a crucial event in English protohistory. Scholars from a range of disciplines dispute the scale and demographic profile of the purported colonizing population. The 5th-7th century burial ground at West Heslerton, North Yorkshire, is one of the few Anglian cemeteries where an associated settleme...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Montgomery J,Evans JA,Powlesland D,Roberts CA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bantu languages are widely distributed throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Genetic research supports linguists and historians who argue that migration played an important role in the spread of this language family, but the genetic data also indicates a more complex process involving substantial gene flow with resident ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Batai K,Babrowski KB,Arroyo JP,Kusimba CM,Williams SR

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At least 29 species of fossil primates have been referred to fruit, nectar, and/or exudate feeding dietary niches. Many studies have detailed the morphological correlates of fruit feeding in comparison to insectivory and folivory. In contrast, few studies have sought to differentiate the morphological correlates of fr...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Dumont ER

更新日期：1997-02-01 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：:New insights may be gleaned by taking an ontogenetic approach to investigations of adult dimorphism. Previous work in this area relied on traditional, caliper-based, morphometric methods, and produced conflicting results. This study uses a three-dimensional (3-D) approach for both local and global form comparisons of ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hens SM

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During excavations of the Bronze Age levels at El Mirador Cave, a hole containing human remains was found. Taphonomic analysis revealed the existence of cutmarks, human toothmarks, cooking damage, and deliberate breakage in most of the remains recovered, suggesting a clear case of gastronomic cannibalism. The piled di...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Cáceres I,Lozano M,Saladié P

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The use of dental metrics in phylogenetic reconstructions of fossil primates assumes variation in tooth size is highly heritable. Quantitative genetic studies in humans and baboons have estimated high heritabilities for dental traits, providing a preliminary view of the variability of dental trait heritabili...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hardin AM

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：: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: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：: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：:Mandibular cross sections of Pan, Pongo, Gorilla, Homo, and two fossil specimens of Paranthropus were examined by computed tomography (CT) to determine the biomechanical properties of the hominoid mandibular corpus. Images obtained by CT reveal that while the fossil hominids do not differ significantly from extant hom...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Daegling DJ

更新日期：1989-09-01 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：:Multivariate and cluster analyses of human skeletal remains of seven regional groups and nine individual sites and periods reveal different patterns of relationships for the sexes. This complex pattern of morphological affinities probably depends on differential demographic features. ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rathbun TA

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reproductive histories of women aged 45-70 years from a homogeneous Berber population of South Morocco were sampled from three contrasting environments: a small town (n = 75), villages in the lowlands (n = 217), and villages in the highlands (n = 128). The main reproductive variables oppose the relatively better c...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Crognier E

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:War atrocities committed by the Spanish army in the Low Countries during the 16th century are so ingrained in the collective memory of Belgian and Dutch societies that they generally assume a signature of this history to be present in their genetic ancestry. Historians claim this assumption is a consequence ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Larmuseau MHD,Calafell F,Princen SA,Decorte R,Soen V

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transferrin phenotypes of 256 rhesus monkeys and their parents were identified by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The segregation ratio for phenotypes involving only alleles of high electrophoretic mobility was statistically significantly higher than expected and suggests that selection favors these more negat...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Smith DG

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of consanguineous marriages on offspring's gestational age and anthropometrics at birth were investigated in Beirut through a hospital-based survey of 1,252 newborns. Twenty-five percent of all newborns were inbred, and the mean inbreeding coefficient was 1.25%. Neither prematurity rate nor weight, length, hea...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Khlat M

更新日期：1989-12-01 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：:Latex rubber brain endocasts of solo I, V, VI, X, and XI crania were prepared in order to determine accurate volumes by H2O-displacement and morphological description. The new volumes are not markedly different from previous estimates that had been done by mensuration formulae. The mean volume is 1,151 ml. The endocas...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Holloway RL

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone mass, as assessed by measurements of total subperiosteal diameter and medullary width of the second metacarpal bone on hand-wrist radiographs, was evaluated for 31 Guamanian patients (15 males, 16 females) with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), 67 patients (39 males, 28 females) with parkinsonism-dementia (PD)...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Garruto RM,Plato CC,Yanagihara R,Fox K,Dutt J,Gajdusek DC,Tobin J

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Here we describe the case of an ectopic maxillary third molar (M3 ), preventing the eruption of the M2 , in the individual H3 of the hominin hypodigm of level TD6.2 of the Early Pleistocene site of Gran Dolina (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain). MATERIALS AND METHODS:The fossil remains from the TD6.2 level of the...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Martín-Francés L,Martinón-Torres M,Martínez de Pinillos M,Bayle P,Fernández-Colón P,García-Campos C,Modesto-Mata M,Carbonell E,Arsuaga JL,Bermúdez de Castro JM

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe the physical growth of healthy children under 7 years in China based on the latest national survey and provide more data for revising growth reference and monitoring the impact of social development on children's health and growth. METHODS:In the cross-sectional survey, 161,774 healthy children ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Zhang YQ,Li H,Wu HH,Zong XN,Zhu ZH,Pan Y,Li J,Zheng XR,Wei M,Tong ML,Zhou AF,Hu Y,Chen W,Zhu K,Yu Y

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stature and the pattern of body proportions were investigated in a series of six time-successive Egyptian populations in order to investigate the biological effects on human growth of the development and intensification of agriculture, and the formation of state-level social organization. Univariate analyses of varian...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Zakrzewski SR

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distinguishing human from non-human bone fragments is usually accomplished by observation of gross morphology. When macroscopic analysis is insufficient, histological approaches can be applied. Microscopic features, like plexiform bone or osteon banding, are characteristic of non-humans. In the absence of such feature...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Dominguez VM,Crowder CM

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angular and linear measurements of maxillary first molar occlusal polygons are given for young San (Bushmen), Sotho, Asiatic Indians, Whites, and Papago Indians. Angular and linear measurements are inseparably related. Much greater variation occurs in widths than in lengths. Maximum variation occurs between San and Pa...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Morris DH

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The presence of Microchoerus in Sant Cugat de Gavadons (Late Eocene, Ebro Basin, Northeastern Spain) was first noted by M. Crusafont, who described a fragment of maxilla with two teeth that he interpreted as P(4) and M(1) and referred this specimen to the species Microchoerus ornatus. The objective of this w...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Minwer-Barakat R,Marigó J,Moyà-Solà S

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Dental microwear is a promising tool to reconstruct animals' diet because it reflects the interplay between the enamel surface and the food items recently consumed. This study examines the sources of inter-individual variations in dietary habits in a free-ranging population of mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) u...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Percher AM,Merceron G,Nsi Akoue G,Galbany J,Romero A,Charpentier MJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluate the hardness of foods consumed by sympatric Cercopithecus ascanius (redtail guenons) and Lophocebus albigena (grey-cheeked mangabeys), and consider how selection might operate to influence foraging adaptations. Since L. albigena has among the thickest dental enamel in extant primates and is commonly referr...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lambert JE,Chapman CA,Wrangham RW,Conklin-Brittain NL

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00