Extreme mobility in the Late Pleistocene? Comparing limb biomechanics among fossil Homo, varsity athletes and Holocene foragers

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 242-249

  Shaw, Colin N ^a   Stock, Jay T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diaphyseal cross section; Fossil hominin; Humerus; Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography (pQCT); Tibia

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FOSSIL; HOLOCENE; NEANDERTHAL; PLEISTOCENE; TOMOGRAPHY;

ELAGATIS; HOMO SAPIENS; HOMO SAPIENS NEANDERTHALENSIS;

EID: 84875220303     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.01.004     Document Type: Article

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