Bone morphologies and histories: Life course approaches in bioarchaeology

SC Agarwal - American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
The duality of the skeleton as both a biological and cultural entity has formed the theoretical
basis of bioarchaeology. In recent years bioarchaeological studies have stretched the early …

Nutrition and health in human evolution–past to present

KW Alt, A Al-Ahmad, JP Woelber - Nutrients, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Anyone who wants to understand the biological nature of humans and their special
characteristics must look far back into evolutionary history. Today's way of life is drastically …

[كتاب][B] The bioarchaeology of metabolic bone disease

MB Brickley, R Ives, S Mays - 2020‏ - books.google.com
The Bioarchaeology of Metabolic Bone Disease, Second Edition is a comprehensive source
dedicated to better understanding this group of conditions that have significant …

Biomechanical analyses of archaeological human skeletons

CB Ruff - Biological anthropology of the human skeleton, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Biomechanics theory provides new ways to reconstruct behavior in past populations.
Application of biomechanical beam models to long bone diaphyses has proven to be a …

Prehistoric women's manual labor exceeded that of athletes through the first 5500 years of farming in Central Europe

AA Macintosh, R Pinhasi, JT Stock - Science Advances, 2017‏ - science.org
The intensification of agriculture is often associated with declining mobility and bone
strength through time, although women often exhibit less pronounced trends than men. For …

Bioarchaeology of Neolithic Çatalhöyük reveals fundamental transitions in health, mobility, and lifestyle in early farmers

CS Larsen, CJ Knüsel, SD Haddow… - Proceedings of the …, 2019‏ - National Acad Sciences
The transition from a human diet based exclusively on wild plants and animals to one
involving dependence on domesticated plants and animals beginning 10,000 to 11,000 y …

Life history transitions at the origins of agriculture: a model for understanding how niche construction impacts human growth, demography and health

JCK Wells, JT Stock - Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Over recent millennia, human populations have regularly reconstructed their subsistence
niches, changing both how they obtain food and the conditions in which they live. For …

Genetic contributions to variation in human stature in prehistoric Europe

SL Cox, CB Ruff, RM Maier… - Proceedings of the …, 2019‏ - National Acad Sciences
The relative contributions of genetics and environment to temporal and geographic variation
in human height remain largely unknown. Ancient DNA has identified changes in genetic …

Evolutionary perspectives on the develo** skeleton and implications for lifelong health

AE Kralick, BS Zemel - Frontiers in endocrinology, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Osteoporosis is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in contemporary populations.
This common disease of aging results from a state of bone fragility that occurs with low bone …

Lower limb articular scaling and body mass estimation in Pliocene and Pleistocene hominins

CB Ruff, ML Burgess, N Squyres, JA Junno… - Journal of Human …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Previous attempts to estimate body mass in pre-Holocene hominins have relied on
prediction equations derived from relatively limited extant samples. Here we derive new …