Mobility and Lower Limb Robusticity of a Pastoralist Neolithic Population from North-Western Italy

Human Bioarchaeology of the Transition to Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 317-346

  Marchi, Damiano ^a   Sparacello, Vitale ^b   Shaw, Colin ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Femur and tibia change in lower limb robusticity in genus homo, decline in relative bone strength during Pleistocene; Ligurian Late Upper Palaeolithic and Neolithic skeletal samples diachronic reduction in stature and decline in health indicators; Long bone cross sectional properties sex specific mobility pattern variations and subsistence strategy; Neolithic burials in Liguria, patterns not found in other periods of region; Northwestern Italy, pastoralist Neolithic population mobility and lower limb robusticity; Regression equations, predicting actual cross sectional geometric properties 'solid bone' section; Statistical evaluation of differences non parametric Mann Whitney U Test corrected for multiple comparisons, and Hommel's sequential Bonferroni procedure; Subsistence economy of Ligurian Neolithic agricultural and herding related activities; Temporal differences and sexual dimorphism in body proportions; Western Liguria, in Northwestern Italy wealth of palaeoanthropological material

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053383313     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470670170.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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