Osteoarthritis in Siberia's Cis-Baikal: Skeletal indicators of hunter-gatherer adaptation and cultural change

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-16

  Lieverse, Angela R ^a   Weber, Andrzej W ^b   Bazaliiskiy, Vladimir Ivanovich ^c   Goriunova, Olga Ivanovna ^c   Savel'ev, Nikolai Aleksandrovich ^c  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Degenerative joint disease; Forager; Middle Holocene

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; FORAGER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOLOGICAL TIME; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; MIGRATION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREVALENCE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SKELETON;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CULTURE; FEMALE; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; JOINTS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SIBERIA;

EID: 33845863670     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20479     Document Type: Article

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