Variability in Long Bone Growth Patterns and Limb Proportions within and Amongst Mesolithic and Neolithic Populations from Southeast Europe

Human Bioarchaeology of the Transition to Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 177-202

  Pinhasi, Ron ^a   Stefanovic S ^b   Papathanasiou, Anastasia ^c   Stock, Jay T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c Ephoreia Paleoanthropol Speleology   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropological interest in growth patterns in archaeological samples Johnston's study of Indian Knoll Native American population; Bioarchaeological growth studies skeletal samples from recent past, of Native American populations; Frequencies of individuals per dental age cohort for four studied sites; Greater variations between samples in femoral than humeral dimensions; Inter population growth patterns of humerus diaphyseal dimensions, different from pattern observed for femur; Interpopulation comparisons, growth trajectories of long bones archaeological 'populations'; Mann Whitney nonparametric analysis Danube Gorges Mesolithic and Neolithic neonates and infants, no limb dimension differences; Mesolithic and Neolithic populations from Southeast Europe long bone growth pattern and limb proportion variability; Metric data, and diaphyseal length dimensions of femur, tibia, humerus, ulna and radius

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857235303     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470670170.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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