Using elliptical best fits to characterize dental shapes.

abstract：:Recognition of disease in the archeologic record is facilitated by characterization of the skeletal impact of documented (in life) disease. The present study describes the osteological manifestations of leukemia as identified in the skeletons of two individuals diagnosed during life: a 3-year-old black girl with acute...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rothschild BM,Hershkovitz I,Dutour O,Latimer B,Rothschild C,Jellema LM

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone samples from a Middle Bronze Age (ca., 1600-1300 BC) site were prepared for histological analysis. Preliminary results suggested that components of bone marrow remained preserved. To verify these findings and optimize the sample preparation procedure, we conducted experiments varying the type of acid used to deca...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Setzer TJ,Sundell IB,Dibbley SK,Les C

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：: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 techniques of dental histology provide a method for reconstructing much of the life history of an individual, as accentuated increments visible in polarized light microscopy record incidents of physiological stress during the formation of dental tissues. Combined with counts of the normal periodic growth increment...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Dirks W,Reid DJ,Jolly CJ,Phillips-Conroy JE,Brett FL

更新日期：2002-07-01 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：:The purpose of this research was to study intra- and interspecific variability in mineral density in the femoral diaphysis of nonhuman primates. Four hundred five sections were taken from five sites along the femoral diaphysis of 34 macaques (Macaca sp.), 24 squirrel monkeys (Saimirisciureus), and 23 tamarins (Saguinu...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Burr DB

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted behavioral observations simultaneously with fecal sample collection on eight nonlactating females 2-3 times per week, October 1997-March 1998, to examine the relationship between ovarian hormones and the sexual behavior of female Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) during the mating season. We analyzed sam...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： O'Neill AC,Fedigan LM,Ziegler TE

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 5,200-year-old Tyrolean Ice Man discovered in 1991 in the Otztal Alps is the world's most ancient known human glacier mummy. Histological investigation was aimed at 1) optimizing specimen preparation and 2) documenting the preservation state of (sub)cellular components. Minute pieces of frozen tissue were removed ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hess MW,Klima G,Pfaller K,Künzel KH,Gaber O

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Sexual dimorphism is an important biological factor underlying morphological variation in the human skeleton. Previous research found sex-related differences in the static ribcage, with males having more horizontally oriented ribs and a wider lower ribcage than females. Furthermore, a recent study found sex-...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： García-Martínez D,Bastir M,Torres-Tamayo N,O'Higgins P,Torres-Sánchez I,García-Río F,Heuzé Y

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analyzed skeletal health disparities among African American and Euro-American males of low socioeconomic status born between 1825 and 1877. A total of 651 skeletons from the Cobb, Hamann-Todd, and Terry anatomical collections were macroscopically examined for skeletal pathologies related to dietary deficien...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： de la Cova C

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various workers, including T. D. Stewart, claim that the aboriginal Americas were relatively disease-free because of the bering Strait cold-screen, eliminating many pathogens, and the paucity of zoonotic infections because of few domestic animals. Evidence of varying validity suggests that precontact Americns had thei...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Newman MT

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

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：:The lateral skull radiographs of 124 boys aged approximately 10 years divided equally between the four angle classes were digitized in an effort to establish the relationship between cranial base size and shape and jaw relationship. Comparison of the means for occlusal groups showed a trend from class II to class III ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Kerr WJ,Adams CP

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Past studies have shown a consistent association of a specific set of mitochondrial DNA 9 base pair (bp) deletion haplotypes with Polynesians and their Austronesian-speaking relatives, and the total lack of the deletion in a short series of New Guinea Highlanders. Utilizing plasma and DNA samples from various old labo...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Merriwether DA,Friedlaender JS,Mediavilla J,Mgone C,Gentz F,Ferrell RE

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis of the anterior patellar groove of the human femur shows considerable variation in its medial and lateral spects. The groove itself, measured by the angle it encloses, shows considerably less variation than its individual components. The suggested functional relationship between bicondylar angle and latera...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Wanner JA

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Teilhardina belgica is one of the earliest fossil primates ever recovered and the oldest fossil primate from Europe. As such, this taxon has often been hypothesized as a basal tarsiiform on the basis of its primitive dental formula with four premolars and a simplified molar cusp pattern. Until recently [see Rose et al...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gebo DL,Smith R,Dagosto M,Smith T

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of the road widening scheme between London and Dover, Oxford Archaeology South uncovered a large boundary ditch of Iron Age origin that contained Iron Age and Roman inhumations, adjacent to which was a small mid-late Roman cemetery, interpreted as a rural cemetery for Romano-British farmers. Grave goods in the...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Pollard AM,Ditchfield P,McCullagh JS,Allen TG,Gibson M,Boston C,Clough S,Marquez-Grant N,Nicholson RA

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：:Bone remodeling variables in the rib were analyzed for a skeletal population of medieval antiquity (ca. A.D. 550-1450) from Kulubnarti, in Sudanese Nubia. The skeletal remains are naturally mummified and in an excellent state of preservation. The study sample consists of thin sections from the ribs of 80 individuals, ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Mulhern DM

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pliopithecinae and Crouzeliinae (Primates: Pliopithecidae) are distinguished dentally by the sharper crests, more compressed cusps, larger foveae, and narrower molars of the latter. Traditionally, such differences were qualitatively related to increased folivory in crouzeliines. This was subsequently disproved by micr...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： DeMiguel D,Alba DM,Moyà-Solà S

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：:Callitrichids use their tongue in various social, ecological, and hygienic contexts. Using a noninvasive measuring device, we obtained data on the operational tongue length (OTL) in seven species from the family Callitrichidae. OTL (defined as the maximum tongue extension into the device) varied significantly between ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Heymann EW,von der Lage F

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gross and radiographic changes characteristic of inadequate bone mineralization due to rickets are described in 21 immature skeletons from a 19th century urban population from Birmingham, England. The aims of the study are as follows: to evaluate and if possible augment existing dry-bone criteria for the recognition o...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Mays S,Brickley M,Ives R

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This research theoretically models and empirically records symphyseal surface strain during in vitro human mandibular wishboning (lateral transverse bending) in order to test one aspect of the hypothesis that the chin is an adaptive response to masticatory stresses. From a perspective of optimality, three qu...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Pampush JD,Daegling DJ

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispersed pair-living primates provide a unique model for illuminating the evolution of mechanisms regulating spacing and cohesiveness in permanently cohesive groups. We present for the first time data on the spatiotemporal distribution and loud-calling behavior of the Milne Edwards' sportive lemur, known to forage so...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rasoloharijaona S,Randrianambinina B,Braune P,Zimmermann E

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The origins of the ancient Egyptian state and its formation have received much attention through analysis of mortuary contexts, skeletal material, and trade. Genetic diversity was analyzed by studying craniometric variation within a series of six time-successive Egyptian populations in order to investigate the evidenc...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Zakrzewski SR

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The order in which ectocranial sutures undergo fusion displays species-specific variation among primates. However, the precise relationship between suture closure and phylogenetic affinities is poorly understood. In this study, we used Guttman Scaling to determine if the modal progression of suture closure differs amo...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Cray J Jr,Meindl RS,Sherwood CC,Lovejoy CO

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery that metabolically active brown fat is present in humans throughout ontogeny raises new questions about the interactions between thermoregulatory, metabolic, and skeletal homeostasis. Brown adipose tissue (BAT) is distinct from white adipose tissue (WAT) for its ability to burn, rather than store, energy...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Devlin MJ

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excessive central fat in children and adolescents is a risk factor for cardiovascular and metabolic disorders. This study aimed to compare the body fat distribution patterns of children and adolescents in Abeokuta, Nigeria with international reference standards. Five hundred seventy children aged 5 to 19 years were se...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Senbanjo IO,Oshikoya KA,Olutekunbi OA,Njokanma OF

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00