Long Bone Length, Stature and Time in the European Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene

Human Bioarchaeology of the Transition to Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 151-175

  Mieklejohn, Christopher ^a   Babb, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body size variation, growth and long bone length, stature and time in European Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene; Core sample, individuals dated by radiocarbon levels long bone length directly with radiometric age; Formicola (1983), applicability of published stature tables to European prehistoric samples, and population specific methods; Long bone maximum length data distribution; Methodological and practical problems stature as primary variable, noise between data and interpretation; Stature assessment in European Upper Palaeolithic Neolithic samples, using Rollet and Manouvrier's tables for archaeological skeletal material; Trends in stature, population stress proxy measure Upper Palaeolithic through Mesolithic to Neolithic; Two factor ANOVA for all long bone maximum length data; Upper or lower limb bones for analysis simple trends in length of individual bones

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857232004     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470670170.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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