Reaching Great Heights: Changes in Indigenous Stature, Body Size and Body Shape with Agricultural Intensification in North America

Human Bioarchaeology of the Transition to Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 203-233

  Auerbach, Benjamin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural intensification in North America indigenous stature, body size and body shape changes; Body mass, morphological trait amongst humans ecogeographic patterns in association with climate; Body mass, predictions from skeletal remains indicator of population health; Descriptive statistics derived morphologies used in analyses; Local and regional variation in subsistence shifts to agriculture effects on human skeletons; MANCOVA examination subsistence categories and sex, Southeastern subregion; Pearson's correlation coefficients geometric mean scaled measurements, allometry in skeletal dimensions; Southeastern 'Foragers' and 'Agriculturalists' morphological dimensions, distinguishing foragers from agriculturalists; Standard deviations and coefficients of variation stature, mass and bi iliac breadth, by sex; Stature, body mass and body shape variation shifts in subsistence economies, indigenous groups in North America

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951502169     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470670170.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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