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：: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：:Catarrhine symphyseal morphology displays considerable variation. Although this has been related to dentition, phylogeny, sexual dimorphism, and facial orientation, most emphasis has been given to the functional significance of the symphysis to mechanical loading during mastication. The current state of knowledge rega...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Panagiotopoulou O,Cobb SN

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of new examination of ancient DNA and craniometric analyses, Neolithic dispersal in Central Europe has been recently explained as reflecting colonization or at least a major influx of near eastern farmers. Given the fact that Neolithic dispersal in Central Europe was very rapid and extended into a large a...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Galeta P,Sládek V,Sosna D,Bruzek J

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns of carious lesions were analyzed in the Classic period coastal Maya population of Xcambó, a salt production and administration center in northern Yucatan. To this end, the study investigated caries in the permanent dentitions of 163 adult skeletons, 23 from the Early Classic (AD 250-550) and 140 from the Late...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Cucina A,Cantillo CP,Sosa TS,Tiesler V

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Historical and anthropological data suggest that skeletons excavated from an 11th to 15th century mass grave in Bondy, France, may be those of victims of the Great Plague. Using high-throughput real-time PCR investigation of the dental pulp collected from 14 teeth from five such skeletons, we detected Bartonella quint...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Tran TN,Forestier CL,Drancourt M,Raoult D,Aboudharam G

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new brain endocast of Homo erectus from Hulu Cave, Tangshan, Nanjing is described and compared with a broad sample of endocasts of H. erectus, Neanderthals, and recent modern humans. The Nanjing 1 endocast is reconstructed based on two portions of endocranial casts taken from the original fossil fragments. The fossi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Wu X,Holloway RL,Schepartz LA,Xing S

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inferred dietary preference is a major component of paleoecologies of extinct primates. Molar occlusal shape correlates with diet in living mammals, so teeth are a potentially useful structure from which to reconstruct diet in extinct taxa. We assess the efficacy of Dirichlet normal energy (DNE) calculated for molar t...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Bunn JM,Boyer DM,Lipman Y,St Clair EM,Jernvall J,Daubechies I

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The robustness index (RI) is determined by multiplying dental mesiodistal and buccolingual diameters, and is used to estimate occlusal area. However, because teeth are not rectangular its calculation consistently causes overestimations. Moreover, teeth, in particular molars, are not identically shaped so overestimatio...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Schmidt C,Ousley S,Schmidt M

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human population movements in North Africa have been mostly restricted to an east-west direction due to the geographical barriers imposed by the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea. Although these barriers have not completely impeded human migrations, genetic studies have shown that an east-west genetic gradient e...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Fadhlaoui-Zid K,Rodríguez-Botigué L,Naoui N,Benammar-Elgaaied A,Calafell F,Comas D

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactation is an energy demanding phase in the reproductive cycle of female mammals. For this reason, several studies have assessed the effects of lactation on female behavior. In this study we examine the influence of lactation on the time-budgets and foraging patterns of female black howlers (Alouatta pigra) in Campe...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Dias PA,Rangel-Negrín A,Canales-Espinosa D

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All primates regularly move within three-dimensional arboreal environments and must often climb, but little is known about the energetic costs of this critical activity. Limited previous work on the energetics of incline locomotion suggests that there may be differential selective pressures for large compared to small...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hanna JB,Schmitt D

更新日期：2011-05-01 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：:Several related demographic trends are occurring in developing countries: youth comprise a large portion of populations, fertility rates are declining, and urban dwellers are increasing. As fertility rates decline and populations age, the decline in the ratio of young dependents to working age adults is expected to fr...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hadley C,Belachew T,Lindstrom D,Tessema F

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early American crania show a different morphological pattern from the one shared by late Native Americans. Although the origin of the diachronic morphological diversity seen on the continents is still debated, the distinct morphology of early Americans is well documented and widely dispersed. This morphology has been ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hubbe M,Harvati K,Neves W

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treponemal disease is known to be associated with the compromised community health of permanent village settlement. This association explains its high visibility in the village-based, arguably chiefdom level, agriculturalist societies of late prehistoric (AD 1300-1600) North America. Within chiefdom-level societies, h...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Smith MO,Betsinger TK,Williams LL

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the Cercocebus-Mandrillus clade are united by several morphological features, including expanded premolars which are argued to be associated with a preponderance of hard objects in the diet. We test the association between premolar expansion and hard object feeding by examining how different dental regions ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： McGraw WS,Vick AE,Daegling DJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent paleogenetic studies have confirmed that the spread of the Neolithic across Europe was neither genetically nor geographically uniform. To extend existing knowledge of the mitochondrial European Neolithic gene pool, we examined six samples of human skeletal material from a French megalithic long mound (c.4200 ca...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Deguilloux MF,Soler L,Pemonge MH,Scarre C,Joussaume R,Laporte L

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-sectional geometrical (CSG) properties of an Iron Age Samnite group from the Alfedena necropolis (Abruzzo, Italy, 2600-2400 B.P.) are compared with a Ligurian Neolithic sample (6000-5500 B.P.). In the period under examination, Samnites were organized in a tribal confederation led by patrilinear aristocracies, in...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Sparacello VS,Pearson OM,Coppa A,Marchi D

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basicranium has been argued to contain a strong phylogenetic signal in previous analyses of primate cranial morphology. Therefore, further study of basicranial morphology may offer new insights into controversial phylogenetic relationships within primate groups. In this study, I apply 3-D geometric morphometric te...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gilbert CC

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:The ∼37 million-year-old Birket Qarun Locality 2 (BQ-2), in the Birket Qarun Formation of Egypt's Fayum Depression, yields evidence for a diverse primate fauna, including the earliest known lorisiforms, parapithecoid anthropoids, and Afradapis longicristatus, a large folivorous adapiform. Phylogenetic analysis has pla...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Boyer DM,Seiffert ER,Simons EL

更新日期：2010-11-01 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 teeth as tools provides clues to past subsistence patterns and cultural practices. Five Holocene period hunter-fisher-gatherer mortuary sites from the south-western region of Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russian Federation, are observed for activity-induced dental modification (AIDM) to further characterize their ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Waters-Rist A,Bazaliiskii VI,Weber A,Goriunova OI,Katzenberg MA

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods for estimating body mass from the human skeleton are often required for research in biological or forensic anthropology. There are currently only two methods for estimating body mass in subadults: the width of the distal femur metaphysis is useful for individuals 1-12 years of age and the femoral head is usefu...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Robbins G,Sciulli PW,Blatt SH

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tolerant food sharing among human foragers can largely be explained by reciprocity. In contrast, food sharing among chimpanzees and bonobos may not always reflect reciprocity, which could be explained by different dominance styles: in egalitarian societies reciprocity is expressed freely, while in more despotic groups...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Jaeggi AV,Stevens JM,Van Schaik CP

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The name "Wampanoag" means "Eastern People" or "People of the First Light" in the local dialect of the Algonquian language. Once extensively populating the coastal lands and neighboring islands of the eastern United States, the Wampanoag people now consist of two federally recognized tribes, the Aquinnah and Mashpee, ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Zhadanov SI,Dulik MC,Markley M,Jennings GW,Gaieski JB,Elias G,Schurr TG,Genographic Project Consortium.

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about ingested food size (V(b)) in primates, even though this variable has potentially important effects on food intake and processing. This study provides the first data on V(b) in strepsirrhine primates using a captive sample of 17 species. These data can be used for generating and testing models of ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Perry JM,Hartstone-Rose A

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact that "Romanization" and the development of urban centers had on the health of the Romano-British population is little understood. A re-examination of the skeletal remains of 364 nonadults from the civitas capital at Roman Dorchester (Durnovaria) in Dorset was carried out to measure the health of the childre...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lewis ME

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unbiased selection of regions of interest (ROIs) and unbiased definition of histological structures are needed to improve the repeatability of microscopic methods for age at death determination and to reduce operator subjectivity. We present results obtained by selecting ROIs according to stereological principles on a...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Villa C,Lynnerup N

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies of primate diversity and evolution rely on dental morphology for insight into diet, behavior, and phylogenetic relationships. Consequently, variation in molar cusp size has increasingly become a phenotype of interest. In 2007 we published a quantitative genetic analysis of mandibular molar cusp size varia...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Koh C,Bates E,Broughton E,Do NT,Fletcher Z,Mahaney MC,Hlusko LJ

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work explores the effects of European contact on Andean foodways in the Lambayeque Valley Complex, north coast Peru. We test the hypothesis that Spanish colonization negatively impacted indigenous diet. Diachronic relationships of oral health were examined from the dentitions of 203 late-pre-Hispanic and 175 colo...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Klaus HD,Tam ME

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the mechanical features of cortical bone and their changes with growth and adaptation to function plays an important role in our ability to interpret the morphology and evolution of craniofacial skeletons. We assessed the elastic properties of cortical bone of juvenile and adult baboon mandibles using ul...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Wang Q,Ashley DW,Dechow PC

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this brief communication is to report the results of an analysis of maxillary premolar accessory ridges (MxPAR), a common but understudied accessory ridge that may occur both mesial and distal to the central ridge of the buccal cusp of upper premolars. We developed a new five-grade scoring plaque to bet...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Burnett SE,Hawkey DE,Turner CG 2nd

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

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：:Body size (stature and mass) estimates are integral to understanding the lifeways of past populations.Body size estimation of an archaeological skeletal sample can be problematic when the body size or proportions of the population are distinctive. One such population is that of the Holocene Later Stone Age (LSA) of so...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Kurki HK,Ginter JK,Stock JT,Pfeiffer S

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of living primates feed part-year on seemingly hard food objects as a fallback. We ask here how hardness can be quantified and how this can help understand primate feeding ecology. We report a simple indentation methodology for quantifying hardness, elastic modulus, and toughness in the sense that materials s...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lucas PW,Constantino PJ,Chalk J,Ziscovici C,Wright BW,Fragaszy DM,Hill DA,Lee JJ,Chai H,Darvell BW,Lee PK,Yuen TD

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：: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：:During the 12th and 13th centuries thousands of people moved from Europe to the Middle East to fight, undertake pilgrimage, or settle and make a new life. The aim of this research is to investigate two populations from the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem, by determining who was born in Europe and who came from the Middl...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Mitchell PD,Millard AR

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00