Panel regression formulas for estimating stature and body mass from immature human skeletons: a statistical approach without reference to specific age estimates

Schug, Gwen Robbins; Gupta, Sat; Cowgill, Libby W.; Sciulli, Paul W.; Blatt, Samantha H.

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2013.02.025

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“…In the context of adequate health and nutritional status, infants and children acquire and actively maintain bone mass in response to their biomechanical environment (Ruff 2003a(Ruff , 2003bPearson and Lieberman, 2004;Cowgill Fig. Results of our analysis indicate that despite regular activity, compact bone mass may be reduced at the midshaft femur in cases of low BMI, a relationship that has been demonstrated in animal models (Lee et al, 1986;Wronski et al, 1987;Lee et al, 1993;Lane et al, 1998;Talbott et al, 1998;Wallace et al, 2012) and is consistent with recent investigations of bone mass and body mass in the immature skeleton (McGuigan et al, 2002;Galusca et al, 2008;Robbins et al, 2010;Robbins Schug et al, 2013a). The quantity of pores in the cross-section increases with age in young infants but does not have a straight-forward relationship with biocultural stress levels.…”

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“…, 2010). Results of our analysis indicate that despite regular activity, compact bone mass may be reduced at the midshaft femur in cases of low BMI, a relationship that has been demonstrated in animal models (Lee et al, 1986;Wronski et al, 1987;Lee et al, 1993;Lane et al, 1998;Talbott et al, 1998;Wallace et al, 2012) and is consistent with recent investigations of bone mass and body mass in the immature skeleton (McGuigan et al, 2002;Galusca et al, 2008;Robbins et al, 2010;Robbins Schug et al, 2013a).…”

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“…in bioarchaeology (following the General Adaptation Model of Goodman et al, 1984Goodman et al, , 1988. The use of BMI as a biocultural stress marker is a more recent innovation in bioarchaeology but it has been applied to adult (Auerbach, 2011;Siegmund and Papageorgopolou, 2011) and immature skeletons (Robbins, 2007;Robbins Schug, 2011;Robbins Schug et al, 2013a) and this project suggests its use as a stress marker (in combination with other lines of evidence) is appropriate.…”

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Birth is but our death begun: A bioarchaeological assessment of skeletal emaciation in immature human skeletons in the context of environmental, social, and subsistence transition

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Goldman

2014

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The second millennium BC was a period of significant social and environmental changes in prehistoric India. After the disintegration of the Indus civilization, in a phase known as the Early Jorwe (1400-1000 BC), hundreds of agrarian villages flourished in the Deccan region of west-central India. Environmental degradation, combined with unsustainable agricultural practices, contributed to the abandonment of many communities around 1000 BC. Inamgaon was one of a handful of villages to persist into the Late Jorwe phase (1000-700 BC), wherein reliance on dry-plough agricultural production declined. Previous research demonstrated a significant decline in body size (stature and body mass index) through time, which is often used to infer increased levels of biocultural stress in bioarchaeology. This article assesses evidence for growth disruption in the immature human skeletal remains from Inamgaon by correlating measures of whole bone morphology with midshaft femur compact bone geometry and histology. Growth derangement is observable in immature archaeological femora as an alteration in the expected amount and distribution of bone mass and porosity in the midshaft cross-section. Cross-section shape matched expectations for older infants with the acquisition of bipedal locomotion. These results support the hypothesis that small body size was related to disruptions in homeostasis and high levels of biocultural stress in the Late Jorwe at Inamgaon. Further, the combined use of geometric properties and histological details provides a method for teasing apart the complex interactions among activity and "health," demonstrating how biocultural stressors affect the acquisition and quality of bone mass.

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Birth is but our death begun: A bioarchaeological assessment of skeletal emaciation in immature human skeletons in the context of environmental, social, and subsistence transition

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Goldman

2014

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“…We therefore averaged the formulae from Robbins Schug et al (2013) and Ruff (2007). Femoral metaphyseal breadth is a poor estimator of body mass, but the diameter of the femoral head is a significant predictor for adolescents and adults, (Ruff, 2007;Robbins Schug et al, 2013). Given that we have an independent predictor of age from dental maturation, Ruff's (2007) age-specific formulae for the estimated upper and lower age boundaries were employed, and the results were averaged.…”

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Insights on the paleoepidemiology of ancient tuberculosis from the structural analysis of postcranial remains from the Ligurian Neolithic (northwestern Italy)

Sparacello

Roberts

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International Journal of Paleopathology

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Abstract: The aim of this research was to gain insights on the timeline of progression of osteoarticular tuberculosis (TB) in people from the Neolithic period by using skeletal traits that are independent of the bony lesions. The body proportions and postcranial mechanical strength of bones from two individuals from Liguria in northwestern Italy (Arene Candide 5, adolescent, and Arma dell'Aquila 1, adult), were compared with the rest of the Ligurian Neolithic skeletal series (45 individuals). If TB led to wasting of the skeleton and lack of normal function which endured for years, as often happens today, a clear signature of postcranial gracility and disruption of development should be apparent. Conversely, rapid progress of the disease would leave little systemic macroscopic change in the skeleton, except for the bony lesions directly caused by the TB pathogen, suggesting a different level of bacterial virulence in the past. The extreme biomechanical gracility observed in the lower limb of Arene Candide 5 suggests a period of compromised diaphyseal periosteal apposition during ontogeny due to metabolic disturbances likely linked to TB. Results suggest that, in Neolithic Liguria, TB in humans saw a slow, chronic progression, which is characteristic of diseases with long histories of host-pathogen coevolution. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64

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Morphometric panel regression equations for predicting body mass in immature humans

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Churchill

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American J Phys Anthropol

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Panel regression formulas for estimating stature and body mass from immature human skeletons: a statistical approach without reference to specific age estimates

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Birth is but our death begun: A bioarchaeological assessment of skeletal emaciation in immature human skeletons in the context of environmental, social, and subsistence transition

Birth is but our death begun: A bioarchaeological assessment of skeletal emaciation in immature human skeletons in the context of environmental, social, and subsistence transition

Insights on the paleoepidemiology of ancient tuberculosis from the structural analysis of postcranial remains from the Ligurian Neolithic (northwestern Italy)

Morphometric panel regression equations for predicting body mass in immature humans

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