Ontogeny of Postcranial Robusticity among Holocene Hunter-gatherers of Southernmost Africa

Ontogenetic patterns in postcranial robusticity are analysed in the skeletons of eighty-two juvenile Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers with estimated ages at death ranging from infancy to late adolescence. Robusticity is quantified from cross-sectional geometric properties of diaphyses at sixteen sit...

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Main Author: Harrington, Lesley
Other Authors: Pfeiffer, Susan
Language:en_ca
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/24766