Evidence for genetic and behavioral adaptations in the ontogeny of prehistoric hunter-gatherer limb robusticity

• Main Authors: Osipov, Benjamin, Temple, Daniel, Cowgill, Libby, Harrington, Leslie, Bazaliiskii, Vladimir, Weber, Andrzej
• Other Authors: University of Alberta, George Mason University Fairfax, University of Missouri Columbia (Mizzou), University of Missouri System, Irkutsk State University (ISU), Laboratoire méditerranéen de préhistoire Europe-Afrique (LAMPEA), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ministère de la Culture (MC)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2016
• Subjects: Biomechanics; Cross-sectional geometry; Functional adaptation; Growth; Hunter-gatherers; [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences; Point Hope; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01475949

International audience Biomechanical analyses of past populations have primarily focused on adults and interpreted variation inlimb bone robusticity as indicative of differences in behavior. However, prior to skeletal maturity largechanges occur in limb bone robusticity and shape. During ontogeny, t...