Brief communication: Transportation and trauma: Dog‐sledding and vertebral compression in Alaskan Eskimos

Abstract Vertebral compression, as evidenced by compression of the centrum, was observed within two Native Alaskan skeletal samples. Information was collected from 1,071 and 656 vertebrae from Golovin Bay and Nunivak Island, Alaska, respectively. In addition, patterns of compression related vertebra...

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Published in:American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Main Author: Legge, Scott S.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2010
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.21220
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