The importance of considering fibular robusticity when inferring the mobility patterns of past populations

Reconstructing Mobility: Environmental, Behavioral, and Morphological Determinants

Volumn 9781489974600, Issue , 2014, Pages 91-110

  Sparacello, Vitale S ^a,b   Marchi, Damiano ^c,d   Shaw, Colin N ^e  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioarchaeology; Cross sectional geometry; Fibula; Terrain conformation; Tibia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929862803     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-7460-0_6     Document Type: Chapter

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