Body Size, Skeletal Biomechanics, Mobility and Habitual Activity from the Late Palaeolithic to the Mid-Dynastic Nile Valley

Human Bioarchaeology of the Transition to Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 347-367

  Stock, Jay T ^a   O'neill, Matthew C ^b   Ruff, Christopher B ^b   Zabecki, Melissa ^c   Shackelford, Laura ^d   Rose, Jerome C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancient history of Nile Valley trends in human cultural and biological adaptation; Biological impact of transition to agriculture in Nile Valley key studies; Body size and long bone rigidity trends hunter gatherer, nomadic pastoralist and agricultural dynastic populations of Nile Valley; Estimated stature and body mass; Estimated stature variation; Late Palaeolithic to Mid Dynastic Nile Valley skeletal biomechanics, mobility and habitual activity; Pairwise comparison, and statistical significance pooled sex samples of el Badari and Hierakonpolis; Skeletal remains, from archaeological contexts Nile in Egypt and Nubia, 13 000 and 1500 BC; Strength, generic term describing biomechanical characteristics of bone; Transition to agriculture in Nile Valley linear enamel hypoplasia frequency, the Jebel Sahaba and el Badari samples

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054119752     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470670170.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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