Central Europe
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00023272%3A_____%2F18%3A10133926" target="_blank" >RIV/00023272:_____/18:10133926 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118628430.ch11" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118628430.ch11</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118628430.ch11" target="_blank" >10.1002/9781118628430.ch11</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Central Europe
Original language description
This chapter summarizes temporal variation in postcranial properties in the Central European region from the Terminal Pleistocene through the Holocene. It briefly reviews some background for Central European bioarchaeological and archaeological research. The chapter deals with regional variation of postcranial features such as stature, body mass, body mass index, relative bi-iliac breadth, and crural and brachial indices. It also compares femoral, tibial, and humeral cortical areas and section moduli and bilateral directional asymmetry in humeral cross-sectional properties. The Central Europeans show an overall decrease of femoral and tibial cortical area and average bending strength between the Terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene up to the Bronze Age (femoral CSG) and the Avar (tibial CSG), and a slight increase afterwards. The chapter demonstrates that changes in stature and body mass observed during Holocene variations are well within the range of secular changes observed during last 100 years among Central European living populations.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10602 - Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Skeletal Variation and Adaptation in Europeans: Upper Paleolithic to the Twentieth Century
ISBN
978-1-118-62796-9
Number of pages of the result
40
Pages from-to
315-354
Number of pages of the book
493
Publisher name
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Place of publication
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UT code for WoS chapter
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