Economic intensification and degenerative joint disease: Life and labor on the postcontact north coast of Peru

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 204-221

  Klaus, Haagen D ^a,b,c   Larsen, Clark Spencer ^d   Tam, Manuel E ^e  

^a UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Museo Nacional Sicán Ferreñafe   (Peru)

^c Departamento de Lambayeque   (Peru)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TRUJILLO   (Peru)

Author keywords

Andes; Bioarchaeology; Lambayeque; Odds ratios; Osteoarthritis

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; GEOLOGICAL TIME; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; LIFESTYLE; MALE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PERU; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADULT; ARCHAEOLOGY; FEMALE; FOSSILS; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; JOINT DISEASES; MALE; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PERU; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 67049154488     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20973     Document Type: Article

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