“…The study of long bone diaphyseal structure applying engineering principles has often been used as a tool to explore past populations' patterns of activity, giving useful insights into various aspects of their social structure and behavior, such as mobility patterns, changes in subsistence strategy or sex‐specific division of labor (Bridges et al, 2000; Carlson, Grine, & Pearson, 2007; Marchi et al, 2006; Mays, 1999; Ogilvie & Hilton, 2011; Ruff, 1987; Stock & Pfeiffer, 2001; Weiss, 2003a, among others). External measurements of shafts, as well as indices of robusticity and shape derived by such measurements, have also been used by some authors to investigate activity patterns (Bridges et al, 2000; Mazza, 2019; Pomeroy & Zakrzewski, 2009; Waidhofer & Kirchengast, 2015; Wanner, Sierra Sosa, Alt, & Tiesler Blos, 2007; Wescott, 2006).…”