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Changes in osteoarthritis associated with the development of a maritime economy among southern California Indians
P. L. Walker,S. E. Hollimon +1 more
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Data show that the rate at which people developed osteoarthritis increased through time, which suggests that the adaptive shift toward more intensive exploitation of the marine environment resulted in an increase in the time people spent in strenuous physical activity.Abstract:
The severity of osteoarthritis was studied in human skeletal remains from archaeological sites in the Santa Barbara Channel area of southern California. These remains were analyzed to better understand changes in activity patterns associated with the economic shift from hunting and gathering to intensive fishing and craft specialization that occurred in this area. The joints of 967 burials from seven archaeological sites occupied between 3500 B.C. and the time of European contact were scored for osteoarthritis. These data show that the rate at which people developed osteoarthritis increased through time. This suggests that the adaptive shift toward more intensive exploitation of the marine environment resulted in an increase in the time people spent in strenuous physical activity. The increase in osteoarthritis affected males to a greater extent than females. One interpretation of this is that the work load of men increased with the economic importance of fishing.read more
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The Archaeology of California
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A bioarchaeological study of osteoarthritis among populations of northern China and Mongolia during the Bronze Age to Iron Age transition to nomadic pastoralism
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Revisiting osteoarthritis in the Cis-Baikal: Understanding behavioral variability and adaptation among middle Holocene foragers
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The Human Skeleton in Forensic Medicine
TL;DR: The human skeleton in forensic medicine as discussed by the authors is an on-line book provided in this website and it can be used as a reference for any reader to read this book and get great information about forensic medicine.
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Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture
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Response of joints to impact loading, III: relationship between trabecular microfractures and cartilage degeneration
Eric L. Radin,Howard G. Parker,James W. Pugh,Robert S. Steinberg,Igor L. Paul,Robert M. Rose +5 more
TL;DR: The knee joints of adult rabbits were subjected to daily one hour intervals of impulsive loading equivalent to their body weight at 60 cpm and developed changes in their knee joints consistent with those of degenerative joint disease.
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