abstract：:The Byzantine Empire managed a complex administrative network that controlled the mining and processing of natural resources from within its boundaries. Scholars relying upon archeological and textual evidence debate the level of imperial involvement in these ventures, particularly in the provinces. Ancient sources no...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Perry MA,Coleman DS,Dettman DL,al-Shiyab AH

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study attempts to fill a persistent gap in the literature by documenting the timing of epiphyseal union at the vertebral end of the ribs in a sample of modern Portuguese skeletons. The skeletal remains of 53 females and 45 males, between the ages of 11 and 30, were taken from the Lisbon documented skeletal collec...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ríos L,Cardoso HF

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has demonstrated that species and subspecies of extant chimpanzees and bonobos can be distinguished on the basis of the shape of their molar crowns. Thus, there is potential for fossil taxa, particularly fossil hominins, to be distinguished at similar taxonomic levels using molar crown morphology. Un...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Skinner MM,Gunz P,Wood BA,Boesch C,Hublin JJ

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Egyptian Western Desert lies on an important geographic intersection between Africa and Asia. Genetic diversity of this region has been shaped, in part, by climatic changes in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene epochs marked by oscillating humid and arid periods. We present here a whole genome analysis of mitochond...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Kujanová M,Pereira L,Fernandes V,Pereira JB,Cerný V

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Yakuts are a Turkic-speaking population from northeastern Siberia who are believed to have originated from ancient Turkic populations in South Siberia, based on archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence. In order to better understand Yakut origins, we modeled 25 demographic scenarios and tested by coalescent sim...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Zlojutro M,Tarskaia LA,Sorensen M,Snodgrass JJ,Leonard WR,Crawford MH

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of researchers have hypothesized that the biomechanical forces associated with cultural cranial deformation can influence the formation of sutural ossicles. However, it is still difficult to make definitive conclusions about this relationship because the effects appear to be quite weak, and contradictory resu...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Wilczak CA,Ousley SD

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed a three-dimensional whole-body musculoskeletal model of the Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) based on computed tomography and dissection of a cadaver. The skeleton was modeled as a chain of 20 bone segments connected by joints. Joint centers and rotational axes were estimated by joint morphology based ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ogihara N,Makishima H,Aoi S,Sugimoto Y,Tsuchiya K,Nakatsukasa M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Madjars are a previously unstudied population from Kazakhstan who practice a form of local exogamy in which wives are brought in from neighboring tribes, but husbands are not, so the paternal lineages remain genetically isolated within the population. Their name bears a striking resemblance to the Magyars who have...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Bíró AZ,Zalán A,Völgyi A,Pamjav H

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：:Studies of skeletal development frequently document populational incidences of bilateral asymmetry. Degenerative morphological skeletal changes, attributed to age related and irregular ossification, may also progress asymmetrically, either as the result of asymmetric biomechanical factors expressed over the lifespan, ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Overbury RS,Cabo LL,Dirkmaat DC,Symes SA

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since their first discovery, Neandertals have served as an out-group for interpreting human variation. Their out-group role has changed over the years because in spite of the fact that Neandertals are the most abundant of all fossil remains (or perhaps because of this) their interpretation is the most controversial of...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Wolpoff MH

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between ethnicity and biology is of interest to anthropologists, biomedical scientists, and historians in understanding how human groups are constructed. Ethnic self-identification in recently admixed groups such as Hispanics, African Americans, and Native Americans (NA) is likely to be complex due to...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Klimentidis YC,Miller GF,Shriver MD

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, dominance rank instability among male Lemur catta during mating was investigated. Also, data on agonism and sexual behavior across five consecutive mating seasons in a population of L. catta on St. Catherines Island, USA, were collected. Instances of male rank instability were categorized into three typ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Parga JA

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The height records of 48,589 conscripts born in Jujuy between 1870 and 1960 were examined in order to study the variation in adult male height (AMH) in terms of geographical altitude and surnames. Data were clustered by origin of surnames (divided into native and foreign names), decades, and according to the four Juje...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Bejarano IF,Dipierri JE,Andrade A,Alfaro EL

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method for estimating adult age-at-death from the first rib was developed as a modification of the Kunos et al. (Am J Phys Anthropol 110 (1999) 303-323) method. Data were collected on three aspects of the first rib (costal face, rib head, and tubercle facet) for 470 known-age males of Balkan ancestry collected a...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： DiGangi EA,Bethard JD,Kimmerle EH,Konigsberg LW

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interest in the developmental changes leading to apomorphic features of human anatomy is longstanding. Although most research has focused on quantitative measures of size and shape, additional information may be available in the sequence of events in development, including aspects of phenotypic integration. I apply tw...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Blomquist GE

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：:Since its discovery in southeastern Uzbekistan in 1938, the Teshik-Tash child has been considered a Neandertal. Its affinity is important to studies of Late Pleistocene hominin growth and development as well as interpretations of the Central Asian Middle Paleolithic and the geographic distribution of Neandertals. A cl...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Glantz M,Athreya S,Ritzman T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the relationships between lower limb robusticity and mobility in a Neolithic sample (LIG) from Italy (6th millennium BP). This study tests the hypothesis that the high femoral robusticity previously observed in the LIG sample is a consequence of the subsistence strategy (i.e., high mobility on ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Marchi D

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：: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：:If predictable, ecogeographic patterning in body size and proportions of human populations can provide valuable information regarding human biology, adaptation to local environments, migration histories, and health, now and in the past. This paper evaluates the assumption that small-bodied Later Stone Age (LSA) forage...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

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

更新日期：2008-05-01 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 ecological pressures shaping chimpanzee anatomy and behavior are the subject of much discussion in primatology and paleoanthropology, yet empirical data on fundamental parameters including body size, morbidity, and mortality are rare for wild chimpanzees. Here, we present skeletal pathology and body size data for ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Carter ML,Pontzer H,Wrangham RW,Peterhans JK

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leprosy was a well-recognized and dreaded disease in medieval Europe (5th-15th century AD). It is reported to have reached Germany with the Roman invasion. A much larger fraction than previously assumed appears to have been affected by leprosy in the medieval period. This article estimates the frequency (i.e., the pre...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Boldsen JL

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines the curvature of the manual proximal and middle phalanges of species belonging to Pan, Gorilla, Ateles, Macaca, Pongo, Hylobates, and Cebus to determine whether middle phalangeal curvature, when considered in conjunction with proximal phalangeal curvature, yields a locomotor signal. Prior studies...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Matarazzo S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between psychological stress and reduced fecundity has been a matter of speculation and investigation for decades. Most previous studies have been compromised, however, by a number of problems including ambiguous direction of causation, poorly operationalized variables, and the confounding of psycholo...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Ellison PT,Lipson SF,Jasienska G,Ellison PL

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pursuant to his major research interest in the cultural ecology of hunter-gatherers, Birdsell collected an unparalleled body of phenotypic data on Aboriginal Australians during the mid twentieth century. Birdsell did not explicitly relate the geographic patterning in his data to Australia's climatic variation, instead...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gilligan I,Bulbeck D

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent molecular and morphological surveys suggest that mangabeys do not represent a monophyletic group. Specifically, Cercocebus is the sister taxon of Mandrillus, whereas Lophocebus forms an unresolved trichotomy with Papio and Theropithecus. The Cercocebus-Mandrillus clade is characterized by skeletal and dental ad...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Daegling DJ,McGraw WS

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：: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：: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：:During excavations of the Bronze Age levels at El Mirador Cave, a hole containing human remains was found. Taphonomic analysis revealed the existence of cutmarks, human toothmarks, cooking damage, and deliberate breakage in most of the remains recovered, suggesting a clear case of gastronomic cannibalism. The piled di...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Cáceres I,Lozano M,Saladié P

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrocardiographic studies have reported persistent right ventricle predominance in high altitude children as an adaptive response. No information was provided on ethnicity and environmental factors in those studies. We assessed the electrocardiographic characteristics in healthy high altitude children with mixed an...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Huicho L,Niermeyer S

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is assumed that the transition from the Late Eneolithic to the Early Bronze Age in Central Europe was associated with substantial changes in subsistence and the perception of gender differences. However, the archeological record itself does not entirely support this model. Alternatively, this transition may be inte...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Sládek V,Berner M,Sosna D,Sailer R

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen stable isotope ratios (delta(18)O) have been determined in carbonate in paired first and third molar teeth from individuals (N = 61) who lived in the town of Portus Romae ("Portus") and who were buried in the necropolis of Isola Sacra (First to Third centuries AD) near Rome, Italy. We compare these analyses wit...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Prowse TL,Schwarcz HP,Garnsey P,Knyf M,Macchiarelli R,Bondioli L

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：:In this paper, we present the academic genealogy of American field primatologists. The genealogy has been compiled to formally document the historical record of this young field. Data have been collected from three main sources: 1) e-mail surveys, 2) library and Internet research, and 3) verbal communication through f...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Kelley EA,Sussman RW

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult males in social groups often compete with other male group members for access to adult females. In some primate species, males also seek mating opportunities in neighboring social groups. Such extra-group fertilizations (EGFs) provide an additional source of variation in male fitness. This additional component o...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lawler RR

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mummies are human remains with preservation of nonbony tissue. Mummification by natural influences results in so-called natural mummies, whereas mummification induced by active (human) intervention results in so-called artificial mummies, although many cultures practiced burial rites, which to some degree involved bot...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lynnerup N

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00