LONG BONES GROWTH VARIATION AMONG PREHISTORIC AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL POPULATIONS FROM UKRAINE (BRONZE ERA TO IRON AGE) PIONTEK J., JERSZYŃSKA B., SEGEDA S. 2001.
Abstract: The authors attempted to determine the tendencies in the development of long bones (femur and tibia) in the Bronze Era and Iron Age agricultural and pastoral populations (differing with adaptive strategies used) from Ukraine. A total of 79 skeletons of individuals who had died at the age of 1 to 13 years were examined. This number included 55 skeletons from the Bronze Era (15 individuals from the population of farmers, and 40 individuals from the population of herders) and 24 skeletons from the Iron Age (12 farmers and 12 herders). The results of the research indicate that subadults in pastoral populations were taller than subadults in agricultural populations. This could have resulted in their greater body height in adulthood as well as in different body proportions (herders had relatively long tibia and higher stature, while farmers had relatively short tibia and smaller body height).
Source: http://hum.amu.edu.pl/~anthro/ve_pdf/vol009/6pion2.pdf
JANUSZ PIONTEK1, BLANDYNA JERSZYŃSKA1, SERGIY SEGEDA2
1 Adam Mickiewicz University, Institute of Anthropology, Poznań, Poland
2 Ukrainian Academy of Science, Institute of Archaeology, Kiev, Ukraine
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