Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - Femoral Midshaft Diaphyseal Cross-sectional Geometry of the Sunghir 1 and 4 Gravettina Human Remains
AU  - Mednikova M
AU  - Trinkaus E
Y1  - 2001
VL  - 39
IS  - 2-3
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 103
EP  - 108
KW  - Human palaeontology
KW  - Upper Palaeolithic
KW  - Biomechanics
KW  - Femur
N2  - 
N2  - The Sunghir 1 and 4 adult male femoral diaphyses were analyzed at midshaft using cross-sectional geometry. Despite the geographical distance and contrasts in terrain between Sunghir and the sites yielding comparative earlier Upper Palaeolithic samples from across Eurasia, the Sunghir 1 and 4 femora are extremely similar to those other early modern human femora in cross-sectional shape and robusticity. This suggests that these Gravettian human populations experienced high levels of mobility and burden carrying irrespective of their geographical and environmental contexts. 
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