An investigation of cortical bone loss and fracture patterns in the neolithic community of Çatalhöyük, Turkey using metacarpal radiogrammetry

A multi‐method assessment of bone maintenance and loss in anImperialRoman population: Implications for future studies of age‐related bone loss in the past

“…The methodological value of metacarpal radiogrammetry has been recognized in bioarchaeology, and the method has been particularly informative about sex‐ and age‐related patterns of bone growth and loss in the past (Beauchesne & Agarwal, ; Glencross & Agarwal, ; Gosman et al, ; Ives & Brickley, ; Lazenby, ; Mays, ). Radiogrammetry is a rapid and non‐destructive method, and a good proxy for overall bone mineral desnity (Ives & Brickley, ; Mays, ).…”

“…Although the study of bone loss in past populations has been investigated using a range of methods, the prevalence of the disease in the past ultimately remains unclear (Agarwal, ; Brickley & Agarwal, ; Brickley & Ives, ). While bone loss in adulthood is universal and has been shown in every study (Agarwal, ), typical patterns of postmenopausal bone loss seen in modern Western women are often not seen in past populations (Agarwal, ; Agarwal & Grynpas, ; Glencross & Agarwal, ; Grynpas, ; Nelson, Sauer, & Agarwal., ; Robling & Stout, 2004). For example, bone loss is often seen at younger ages and in both sexes (Agarwal, ; Agarwal & Grynpas, ; Ekenman, Eriksson, & Lindgren, ; Holck, ; Lees, Molleson, Arnett, & Stevenson, ; Weaver, ).…”

Age-Related Cortical Bone Maintenance and Loss in an Imperial Roman Population

“…This is unexpected as postmenopausal women in modern Western populations show a dramatic decline in CI compared with men (Maggio et al, 1997;Böttcher et al, 2006). However, postmenopausal sex differences in bone loss have not been seen to be necessarily universal in other bioarchaeological studies that have explored age-and sex-related trends with measures of both cortical and trabecular bone (Lees et al, 1993;Ekenman et al, 1995;Mays, 1996;Agarwal et al, 2004;Agarwal & Grynpas, 2009;Holck, 2007;Glencross and Agarwal, 2011). The smaller overall bone size (Böttcher et al, 2006) and steady depletion of endosteal bone with age in women should result in a significant sex difference in the Velia population in old age, if modern postmenopausal changes are taken as a human universal, but none was detected.…”

X-ray, CT and DXA study of bone loss on medieval remains from North-West Italy

“…However, there is ongoing controversy as to there being a strong correlation between cortical thickness, osteoporotic bone loss and different lifestyle factors of ancient and modern populations [9,16,24].…”