Lower limb activity in the Cis-Baikal: Entheseal changes among middle holocene siberian foragers

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 421-432

  Lieverse, Angela R ^a   Bazaliiskii, Vladimir Ivanovich ^b   Goriunova, Olga Ivanovna ^b   Weber, Andrzej W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

enthesopathies; enthuses; hunter gatherers; lower limb; middle Holocene; musculoskeletal stress markers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRONZE AGE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEATH; FEMALE; FORAGER; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; POSTHUMOUS CARE; SEX;

ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; BODY SIZE; CEMETERIES; CULTURE; FEMALE; FEMUR; FIBROCARTILAGE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; SIBERIA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIBIA;

EID: 84874403152     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22217     Document Type: Article

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