Computed tomography in paleopathology: technique and case study.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A "dip" in the stable nitrogen isotope ratios (δ(15)N) of subadults in the late weaning/early post-weaning phase of growth and development has been observed. Speculatively, this is the mechanism of positive nitrogen balance operating among rapidly growing subadults. An alternate hypothesis for δ(15)N dips is...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Reitsema LJ,Muir AB

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The energy demands of pregnancy and lactation together with the accumulation of stored fat in human females during development suggest that a critical level of fat may be required for menarche; but multivariate analyses have supported the alternative view that skeletal growth is the main factor. However, significant d...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lassek WD,Gaulin SJ

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies involve comparison of measures of sexual dimorphism between two samples. This comparison is used to test a variety of hypotheses, such as changing environmental conditions. Methods for testing the significance of the difference between two populations tend to be complex, and/or require access to complete ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Relethford JH,Hodges DC

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Height and weight were compared across five birth decades (1850-1899) among 1,121 Harvard athletes who were lettermen in various sports. There were considerable differences in the magnitude of the secular trend among the sport categories (crew, baseball, football, track, ice hockey, and two or more sports). Comparing ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Polednak AP

更新日期：1975-05-01 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 Unpublished materials from the University of Witwa...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：: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：:There are numerous structural defects that occur in primate teeth due to variable calcification during certain growth stages. These interruptions are usually areas of hypomineralization in enamel and dentin which are referred to as Striae of Retzius and Hunter Shreger bands in the enamel or Incremental Lines of von Eb...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Molnar S,Ward SC

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weight, stature, arm circumference, and the triceps skinfold were measured in 1,410 school children, 6 through 14 years of age, from two urban colonias in the city of Oaxaca de Juarez (n = 479), and from two rural Ladino (n = 467) and two rural Zapotec (n = 464) communities in the Valley of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Malina RM,Himes JH,Stepick CD,Lopez FG,Buschang PH

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multivariate analyses, supplemented by univariate statistical methods, of measurements from mandibular tooth crown dimensions and the mandible of Gigantopithecus blacki, G. bilaspurensis, Plio-Plelstocene hominids, Homo erectus, and seven Neogene ape species from the genera Proconsul, Sivapithecus, Ouranopithecus, and...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gelvin BR

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human remains giving direct evidence concerning the history of dissection practices are rare. Thirteen cranial fragments which bear evidence of having been purposely cut and sawn were discovered in a crypt during excavations undertaken in Sens (Yonne, France). Ceramics date these remains to the period from the end of ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Valentin F,d'Errico F

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enamel hypoplasias, deficiencies in enamel thickness resulting from disturbances during the secretory phase of enamel development, are generally believed to result from nonspecific metabolic and nutritional disruptions. However, data are scare on the prevalence and chronological distributions. of hypoplasias in popula...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Goodman AH,Allen LH,Hernandez GP,Amador A,Arriola LV,Chávez A,Pelto GH

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A histological aging study of femoral midshafts in a late Roman period sample from the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt, showed discrete fluorochrome labelling. The fluorochrome is yellow-green in colour and fluoresces at a wavelength of 525 nm. The labelling occurs at the mineralization fronts and is so distinct that several his...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Cook M,Molto E,Anderson C

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluctuating asymmetry (FA) is thought to increase as a result of environmental perturbations during development. A number of studies involving measures of health and developmental stability other than FA have discussed the presumed increased buffering in females relative to males. But, there is little evidence in the ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ozener B

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of tooth cementum annulations for age determination has been deemed promising, exhibiting high correlations with chronological age. Despite its apparent potential, to date, the tooth cementum annulations method has been used rarely for estimating ages in archaeological populations. Here we examine the readabil...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Roksandic M,Vlak D,Schillaci MA,Voicu D

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

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：:Sediments in the Tugen Hills, west of Lake Baringo, Kenya, form one of the best fossiliferous successions known in Africa spanning the period from 14 my to less than 4 my. Hominoid fossils have previously been recovered from a number of localities in the region. We describe here a new hominid mandible (KNM-TH 13150) f...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ward S,Hill A

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the 1930s subadult hominin remains and Mousterian artifacts were discovered in the Teshik-Tash cave in South Uzbekistan. Since then, the majority of the scientific community has interpreted Teshik-Tash as a Neanderthal. However, some have considered aspects of the morphology of the Teshik-Tash skull to be more simi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gunz P,Bulygina E

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oliver is an African ape whose species identity has been debated in the popular media and by various scientists since the early 1970s. Although decisive morphological data has never been adduced on Oliver, many reports indicated that Oliver was morphologically unusual for a chimpanzee, particularly in his habitual bip...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ely JJ,Leland M,Martino M,Swett W,Moore CM

更新日期：1998-03-01 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：:A suite of measurements was collected from the talus, calcaneus, navicular, and cuboid of humans from Southern China, Victorian Britain, Roman Britain, and Zulu tribes people from the Republic of South Africa. Univariate and multivariate statistical analyses of dimensions of individual foot bones revealed subtle but d...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Kidd RS,Oxnard CE

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two sequences of nucleotides are homologous if they are descended through a chain of replication from a common precursor molecule. Since organs are not copies or transcriptions of organs, the concept of morphological homology has no such simple and unambiguous definition. The theoretical vagueness of morphological hom...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Cartmill M

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

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：:This paper presents a comprehensive empirical analysis of the factors affecting growth and psychological development of over 100 infants from birth to age 6 months in the Embu region of Kenya. The analysis was divided into four parts. First, infants' birth weight, and length and head circumference as measured few days...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Bhargava A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 582 individuals (1,164 chromosomes) from two African, eight African-derived South American, five South American Amerindian, and three Brazilian urban populations were studied at four variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) and two short tandem repeat (STR) hypervariable loci. These two sets of loci did not ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Da Silva WA Jr,Bortolini MC,Meyer D,Salzano FM,Elion J,Krishnamoorthy R,Schneider MP,De Guerra DC,Layrisse Z,Castellano HM,Weimer TD,Zago MA

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of Taiwan aborigines, the Toroko, was typed for 21 classical genetic loci. This is part of an ongoing program aimed at a comprehensive study of Taiwan aborigines. In this first paper a short summary of historical, archeological, and anthropological data in the literature is made, and results of the present sur...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Chen KH,Cann H,Chen TC,Van West B,Cavalli-Sforza L

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Vertical clinging and climbing have been integral to hypotheses about primate origins, yet little is known about how an animal with nails instead of claws resists gravity while on large, vertical, and cylindrical substrates. Here we test models of how force is applied to maintain posture, predicting (1) the ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Johnson LE,Hanna J,Schmitt D

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：:The histological method developed by Stout and Paine ([1992] Aln. J. Phys. Antropol. 87:111-115) for estimating age at death using the clavicle is tested on a known age independent sample from a nineteenth century cemetery near Spitalfriedhof St. Johann in Basel, Switzerland. The mean absolute difference between repor...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Stout SD,Porro MA,Perotti B

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Femoral head size provides important information on body size in extinct species. Although it is well-known that femoral head size is correlated with acetabular size, the precision with which femoral head size can be estimated from acetabular size has not been quantified. The availability of accurate 3D surface models...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Plavcan JM,Hammond AS,Ward CV

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As shown in 91 embryos and fetuses in the 41-235 mm crownrump length, brachymesophalangia-5 may be identified in prenatal time. Although the ratios involving different combinations of length of mid-5 relative to other segments yield different frequencies of BMP-5, the short middle segment of the little finger is alrea...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Garn SM,Babler WJ,Burdi AR

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00