Exploring late Paleolithic and Mesolithic diet in the Eastern Alpine region of Italy through multiple proxies.

abstract：:Cases of pathologically changed bone might constitute a diagnostic pitfall and frequently need histological methods to be etiologically properly evaluated. With micro-computed tomography (microCT), a new epoch of 2D and 3D imaging has been launched. We evaluated the diagnostic investigation of this analytical method v...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rühli FJ,Kuhn G,Evison R,Müller R,Schultz M

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：: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：:A simple experiment was conducted to test the hypothesis that variation in humidity causes expansion of bone and, thereby, affects measurements of dried, preserved skulls. The experiment consisted of subjecting ten macaque skulls to increased humidity for 24 hours. Measurements of nine skull dimensions taken immediate...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Albrecht GH

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fingers in the adult human hand differ in length and in distal extent. The literature agrees that in the clear majority of males, the distal extent of the ring finger tends to be relatively greater (using the middle finger as standard) than the index finger. However, the results for females vary considerably, with...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Peters M,Mackenzie K,Bryden P

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Although the evolution of the hominin masticatory apparatus has been linked to diet and food processing, the physical connection between neurocranium and lower jaw suggests a role of encephalization in the trend of dental and mandibular reduction. Here, the hypothesis that tooth size and mandibular robustici...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Veneziano A,Meloro C,Irish JD,Stringer C,Profico A,De Groote I

更新日期：2018-09-01 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：:In this paper we discuss diet and health changes of millet agriculturists in Northern China, Shaanxi province, during the period 7,000-4,000 BP. An episode of intensive climatic oscillations that preceded the onset of colder climate circa the fifth millennium BP divides the period (Shi et al. [1993] Global Planet. Cha...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Pechenkina EA,Benfer RA Jr,Zhijun W

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports measurements of weight and recumbent length for a cross-sectional sample of 149 Shipibo infants and children between birth and 35.99 months of age from eight villages in the Peruvian Amazon Basin. The Shipibo are an Amerindian population experiencing a period of local environmental disruption and ra...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hodge LG,Dufour DL

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A marked asymmetry was previously reported in the sacral alae and S1-L5 facets orientation of the Neandertal individual Regourdou 1. Here, we provide a detailed description and quantification of the morphology and degree of asymmetry of this sacrum. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Regourdou 1 was compared to a modern ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rmoutilová R,Gómez-Olivencia A,Brůžek J,Holliday T,Ledevin R,Couture-Veschambre C,Madelaine S,Džupa V,Velemínská J,Maureille B

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proportions of marine vs. terrestrial resources in prehistoric human diets in the southern Mariana Islands (Guam, Rota, Saipan), Micronesia, have been estimated by analysis of stable isotope ratios of carbon and nitrogen in bone collagen and of carbon in apatite. The isotopic composition of marine and terrestrial food...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ambrose SH,Butler BM,Hanson DB,Hunter-Anderson RL,Krueger HW

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:It is a big challenge to diagnose the motives behind trepanations in prehistoric crania. Surgical-therapeutic attempts may be apparent by the presence of fractures, however, ritual or nonmedical motives are rarely supported by visible evidence in the bones. This article presents data on the trepanations of s...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gresky J,Batieva E,Kitova A,Kalmykov A,Belinskiy A,Reinhold S,Berezina N

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The traditional morphogenetic fields of the human dentition were evaluated by means of factor analysis of dental dimensions taken from a series of human crania. When crown length, crown width and crown index were considered separately, factors emerged which could be identified with the tooth group fields. But a combin...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lombardi AV

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primate fossil assemblages often have metacarpals and phalanges from which functional/behavioral interpretations may be inferred. For example, intrinsic hand proportions can indicate hand function and substrate use. But, estimates of intrinsic hand proportions from unassociated hand elements can be imperfect due to di...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Venkataraman VV,Rolian C,Gordon AD,Patel BA

更新日期：2013-06-01 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：:Factors involved in the spread of hepatitis B virus (HBV) in the largely Melanesian population (N = 909) of Graciosa Bay, Ndeni, are examined. Based upon cultural information from Ndeni and ways in which HBV is spread in other populations, certain practices and interactions, predicted as effective routes of HBV infect...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Langendorfer A,Davenport W,London WT,Blumberg BS,Mazzur S

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bones in the axial and appendicular skeletons exhibit heterogeneous growth patterns between different ethnic and sex groups. However, the influence of this differential growth on the expression of bone mineral content is not yet established. The aims of the present study were to investigate: 1) whether there are ethni...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Nyati LH,Norris SA,Cameron N,Pettifor JM

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Life history theory posits that, as long as survival is assured, finite resources are available for reproduction, maintenance, and growth/storage. To maximize lifetime reproductive success, resources are subject to trade-offs both within individuals and between current and future investment. For women, reproducing is ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Abrams ET,Miller EM

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recently proposed model for canine reduction in hominid evolution (the "dual selection" model) suggests that canine reduction occurs as a result of selection for incorporation of the canines into a functional incisal field. Among the evidence used to support this model are patterns of wear and occlusion of the canin...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Plavcan JM,Kelley J

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dental casts taken of Aboriginal people resident at Yuendumu, Central Australia, between 1950-1970 preserve a unique historical record of defects of the dental enamel (DDEs) among people born from 1890-1960 (n = 377). These data are used, in comparison with precontact data, to trace the chronological changes in ch...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Littleton J

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new partial skeleton of Proconsul nyanzae from Mfangano Island, Kenya (KNM-MW 13142) includes five lumbar vertebrae, a partial sacrum, and nearly complete hipbone. Until recently, little was known of the axial and pelvic skeletons of Proconsul, or any early Miocene hominoid. Because torso morphology directly reflect...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ward CV

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently spatial autocorrelation has been employed to infer microevolutionary processes from patterns of genetic variation. In theory, different processes should show characteristic signature correlograms; e.g., clinal selection should produce correlograms decreasing from positive to negative autocorrelation, whereas ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Fix AG

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information about primate genomes has re-emphasized the importance of the great apes (Pan, Gorilla, and Pongo) as, for most purposes, the appropriate comparators when generating hypotheses about the most recent common ancestor of the hominins and panins, or the most recent common ancestor of the hominin clade. Great a...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gordon AD,Marcus E,Wood B

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates evidence of changes and continuities in ancient Maya violence and warfare in inland northwest Yucatan, Mexico from the Middle Preclassic (600-300 BC) to the Postclassic (AD 1050-1542) through bioarchaeological analysis of cranial and projectile trauma. It is hypothesized that the frequency of v...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Serafin S,Lope CP,Uc González E

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We tested whether patterns of intraspecific variation in catarrhine vertebral shape are consistent with developmental or functional predictions. Intraspecific variation was compared across column regions, morphological features, and species. Transitional regions and later ossifying morphological features wer...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Shapiro LJ,Kemp AD

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines patterns of growth in height and weight among children (< 60 months) of highland and coastal agricultural communities of Ecuador. Highland children are significantly shorter, but not significantly lighter than their coastal peers. Linear growth rates (cm/6 months) are comparable between the two sam...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Leonard WR,DeWalt KM,Stansbury JP,McCaston MK

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical studies of the relationship between developmental enamel defects and caries susceptibility have often produced conflicting results. This has been due in part to a failure to distinguish between different types of defects. Studies of this association in prehistoric populations have been rare. The complete deci...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Duray SM

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The numbers of precoccygeal vertebrae (PCV) are compared in Southern African Negroes, Bushman (San) and American Negroes. The S.A. Negro and San males have an exceptionally high frequency of an increased total PCV number whilst the frequencies are significantly lower in a combined Caucasoid sample and the Mongoloid sa...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： de Beer Kaufman P

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodic episodes of food scarcity may highlight the adaptive value of certain anatomical traits, particularly those that facilitate the acquisition and digestion of exigent fallback foods. To better understand the selective pressures that favored the distinctive dental and locomotor morphologies of gibbons and orangu...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Vogel ER,Haag L,Mitra-Setia T,van Schaik CP,Dominy NJ

更新日期：2009-12-01 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