Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - The Humerus Versus the Femur: Changing Patterns of Diaphyseal Robusticity across the Late Archaic to Early Modern Human Transition
AU  - Trinkaus E
Y1  - 1996
VL  - 34
IS  - 3
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 239
EP  - 247
KW  - Human Palaeontology
KW  - Postcrania
KW  - Robusticity
KW  - Neanderthals
KW  - Early Modern Humans
N2  - 
N2  - A decrease in robusticity has been said to characterize the emergence of modern humans. Analysis of humeral and femoral diaphyses, using a biomechanical cross-sectional geometry methodology, shows that there is a mosaic pattern of changes in robusticity. There is a decrease in humeral robusticity, especially in the Near East. Once body proportions are taken into account, there is only a suggestion of a decrease in lower limb robusticity.
ER  -