A test of a new method and software for the rapid estimation of cross-sectional geometric properties of long bone diaphyses from 3D laser surface scans

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 277-290

  Davies, Thomas G ^a   Shaw, Colin N ^a   Stock, Jay T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Human; Morphology; Postcranial robusticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873019784     PISSN: 18669557     EISSN: 18669565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-012-0101-8     Document Type: Article

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