The relationship between femur shape and terrestrial mobility patterns

Reconstructing Mobility: Environmental, Behavioral, and Morphological Determinants

Volumn 9781489974600, Issue , 2014, Pages 111-132

  Wescott, Daniel J ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioarchaeology; Bone biomechanics; Diaphyseal cross sectional shape; Femur; Logistic mobility; Reduced mobility; Secular change; Skeletal biology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925377874     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-7460-0_7     Document Type: Chapter

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