Preparation and use of varied natural tools for extractive foraging by bonobos (Pan Paniscus).

abstract：:In comparing long-bone cross-sectional geometric properties between individuals, percentages of bone length are often used to identify equivalent locations along the diaphysis. In fragmentary specimens where bone lengths cannot be measured, however, these locations must be estimated more indirectly. In this study, we ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Sládek V,Berner M,Galeta P,Friedl L,Kudrnová S

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excavations at hearth levels at the Molare Shelter in 1985 yielded the mandible of a 3-4-year-old child. The associated lithic artifacts recovered with it are Mousterian. Its features, although quite archaic, are within the known range of variation of Neandertals. Four deciduous molars are still preserved in the mandi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Mallegni F,Ronchitelli AT

更新日期：1989-08-01 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：:Although previous studies have characterized the genetic structure of populations from Haiti and Jamaica using classical and autosomal STR polymorphisms, the patrilineal influences that are present in these countries have yet to be explored. To address this lacuna, the current study aims to investigate, for the first ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Simms TM,Wright MR,Hernandez M,Perez OA,Ramirez EC,Martinez E,Herrera RJ

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Spearman-Brown Prophesy formula, derived from psychometrics, may be used in anthropometric studies to describe the relationship between the intraclass reliability coefficient for a single measurement and the reliability resulting from the mean of replicate measurements. This theory may be applied to determine expe...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Himes JH

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Work on the interspecific and intraspecific variation of trabecular bone in the proximal femur of primates demonstrates important architectural variation between animals with different locomotor behaviors. This variation is thought to be related to the processes of bone adaptation whereby bone structure is optimized t...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ryan TM,van Rietbergen B

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human physique classification by somatotype assumes that adult humans are geometric similar to each other. However, this assumption has yet to be adequately tested in athletic and nonexercising human populations. In this study, we assessed this assumption by comparing the mass exponents associated with girth measureme...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Nevill AM,Stewart AD,Olds T,Holder R

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the energetic costs of quadrupedal and bipedal walking in two Japanese macaques. The subjects were engaged in traditional bipedal performance for years, and are extremely adept bipeds. The experiment was conducted in an airtight chamber with a gas analyzer. The subjects walked quadrupedally and bipedal...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Nakatsukasa M,Ogihara N,Hamada Y,Goto Y,Yamada M,Hirakawa T,Hirasaki E

更新日期：2004-07-01 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 wild bonobos (Pan paniscus) of Wamba, Zaire have an extremely high frequency of external abnormal traits. Out of 96 animals in a sample comprising all age and sex classes from two different natural groups, 46 individuals had at least one limb defect. The frequency of abnormalities was greater in males than in fema...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Kano T

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The size of the permanent human canine tooth is one of the few sexually dimorphic features to be present in childhood and as such offers the opportunity to assist in the identification of sex in remains where no other appropriate criteria exist, such as in subadults. However, canine odontometrics are often associated ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hassett B

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isotope variations were studied in necropolises of the early (6th to 7th century CE) and central (10th to 11th century CE) medieval period located in Fruili-Venezia Giulia (Northeastern Italy). The two periods each shortly followed two great barbarian invasions that changed the politics and economy of Italy: the arriv...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Iacumin P,Galli E,Cavalli F,Cecere L

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncertainties as to the nature and implications of osteoarthritis and calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease (CPPD) in primates were subject to critical review through examination of 153 prosimians and 1,250 Old World non-prosimian primates. Osteoarthritis, calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease, and infectious ar...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rothschild BM,Woods RJ

更新日期：1992-03-01 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：:Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans (AMHs) may have lived in close proximity in the Near East region during Middle Paleolithic times. Although functional morphological analyses suggest a marked behavioral contrast between these two human groups, new dental micro- and macro-wear studies, together with new archa...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Fiorenza L,Kullmer O

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The archaeological evidence of ancient cranial surgery is limited to cases of trepanation and cauterization. I report here on the only known case of cranial surgery in direct association with the osseous image of a non-trauma-induced soft tissue lesion (sinus pericranii). This case, from Alameda County, California (La...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Richards GD

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gorillas occupy a variety of habitats from the west coast to eastern central Africa. These habitats differ considerably in altitude, which has a pronounced effect on forest ecology. Although all gorillas are obligate terrestrial knuckle-walking quadrupeds, those that live in lowland habitats eat fruits and climb more ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Dunn RH,Tocheri MW,Orr CM,Jungers WL

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：:Patterns of dental disease among Bronze Age people of the Indus Valley Civilization are currently based on early and incomplete reports by non-specialists. This deficiency precludes accurate diachronic analysis of dental disease and its relationship with increasing agriculturalism in the Indian subcontinent. The objec...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lukacs JR

更新日期：1992-02-01 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：: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：:Hair slope, whorl, cross and field formation is expressible in a topological form. The mathematical description required suggests an origin for the patterns in a growth process occurring in the upper dermis which determines the patterns of the hair slope. The formulae proposed by Euler, Poincaré and Ludwig are adopted...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Findlay GH,Harris WF

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of the correlations between the languages spoken by human populations and the genes carried by the members of those populations have been limited by the small amount of genetic markers available and by approximations in the treatment of linguistic data. In this study we analyzed a large collection of ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Belle EM,Barbujani G

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a part of a research project on molecular variation in Central Africa, we have analyzed 10 microsatellites (CD4, CSFO, D3S1358, D18S51, D21S11, F13A1, FES, TH01, TPOX, and VWA) in the Bamileke and Ewondo from Cameroon and the Sanga and Mbenzele Pygmies from the Central African Republic (a total of 390 chromosomes)....

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Destro-Bisol G,Boschi I,Caglià A,Tofanelli S,Pascali V,Paoli G,Spedini G

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study is to demonstrate advantages of principal component analysis (PCA) as a standardized procedure in the evaluation of osteoarthritis (OA) in a skeletal series to: (1) compute aggregate scores for joint complexes that accurately capture pathological expression, (2) reveal which variabl...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Calce SE,Kurki HK,Weston DA,Gould L

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:International differences in breast cancer incidence and mortality, and studies on Japanese migrants to the United States, point to the importance of environmental factors, including diet and nutrition, in the etiology of breast cancer. Some studies have suggested that dietary patterns in early life are important to t...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Micozzi MS

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dart's 1925 announcement of Australopithecus africanus (Dart: Nature 115 [1925] 195-199) was highly controversial, partly because of an interpretation of the Taung natural endocast that rested on an erroneous identification of the lambdoid suture as the lunate sulcus. Unpublished materials from the University of Witwa...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Falk D

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last 20 years, studies on human identified skeletal collections have revealed a significant relationship between new bone formation on the visceral surface of ribs and pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). To improve methods of differential diagnosis of respiratory diseases in archaeological skeletons, an investigation ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Matos V,Santos AL

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to investigate the relationship between traditional skeletal cephalometric measurement and Fourier analysis of the lateral soft-tissue profile. A random sample of 121 untreated subjects of European descent, with wide ranges of malocclusions and underlying facial patterns, was selected in the Or...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rose AD,Woods MG,Clement JG,Thomas CD

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Celebrations and bursts of communal joy can occur spontaneously in human communities based on mechanisms of emotional contagion. Some examples of similar collective excitement have been reported in animals when they reunite or anticipate rewards, but little is known about the processes and meaning of these multiple in...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： De Marco A,Cozzolino R,Dessì-Fulgheri F,Thierry B

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00