An enthesis is the interface where tendon meets bone, providing both muscle anchorage
and stress dissipation. Previous anthropological research suggests size and complexity of …

In bioarchaeological studies, entheseal change is commonly used to infer patterns of activity
in past populations. This category of skeletal modification includes both pathological …

Over the past half century, the biocultural approach has emerged as an integrative
intellectual force in biological anthropology (Goodman and Leatherman 1998; Goodman et …

This study tests the hypothesis that the colonial economy of the Lambayeque region of
northern coastal Peru was associated with a mechanically strenuous lifestyle among the …

The first objective of this study is to reconstruct levels and types of physical activity and
associated sexual and social differences using human skeletal remains from the …

NATIVE AMERICAN LANDSCAPES OF ST. CATHERINES ISLAND, GEORGIA Page 1 NATIVE
AMERICAN LANDSCAPES OF ST. CATHERINES ISLAND, GEORGIA I. THE THEORETICAL …

This paper examines health differences between two distinct samples within an African
American skeletal population by investigating variation in osteoarthritis (OA) patterns, the …

The Workshop in Musculoskeletal Stress Markers (MSM): limitations and achievements in
the reconstruction of past activity patterns, was held at the University of Coimbra, in Portugal …

The synthesis of biological anthropology, archaeology, and social theory provides a
bioarchaeological model to reconstruct nuanced aspects of demography, diet, disease …

Osteoarthritis has a multifactorial aetiology. Despite this, and the incomplete understanding
of the exact pathogenesis of osteoarthritis, many bioarchaeologists continue to attempt to …