Comparative analyses of cross-sectional geometry of tibias from southern Patagonia and central-north of Mendoza
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https://doi.org/10.17139/raab.2017.0019.02.01Abstract
Analysis of transversal geometry of long bones is an indicator of the work of mechanical forces over bone structures, informing about physical activity patterns, nutritional health, and genetic variability among individuals. Although some analyses were previously performed in human skeletons from southern Patagonia, contradictory conclusions were reported in regards to the relationship between long-bone morphology and physical activity patterns. The aim of this work is to comparatively increase the knowledge about the transversal geometry patterns in human remains of individuals from southern Patagonia and Center-North of Mendoza, studying the possible relationship between economic practices and the structure of low limbs. The results showed no difference in the robusticity of the tibias between individuals from southern Patagonia and Center-North of Mendoza. However, individuals with maritime diets from Southern Patagonia showed more robusticity than individuals with terrestrial diets. Moreover, individuals from Center-North of Mendoza with corn-based diets showed lower robustiticy than other individuals from the same region. Finally, only one case from southern Patagonia showed results that could be related to some metabolic disease.
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Ruff CB. 2008. Biomechanical analyses of archaeological human skeletons. En: Katzenberg MA, Saunders SR, editores. Biological anthropology of the human skeleton. New York: Wiley Liss. p 183–206.
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Stock J, Pfeiffer S. 2001. Linking structural variability in long bone diaphyses to habitual behaviors: foragers from the southern African Later Stone Age and the Andaman Islands. Am J Phys Anthropol 115: 337–348.
Stock JT, Shaw CN. 2007. Which measures of diaphyseal robusticity are robust? A comparison of external methods of quantifying the strength of long bone diaphyses to cross-sectional geometric properties. Am J Phys Anthropol 134:412–423.
Suby JA. 2007. Propiedades estructurales de restos óseos humanos y paleopatología en Patagonia Austral. Tesis Doctoral no publicada. Mar del Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata.
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Suby JA, Salemme M, Santiago F. 2008. Análisis paleopatológico de los restos humanos del sitio Puesto Pescador 1 (Tierra del Fuego). Magallania 36(1): 53-64.
Suby JA, Zangrando AF, Piana EL. 2011. Exploraciones osteológicas de la salud de las poblaciones humanas del Canal Beagle. Relaciones de la Sociedad Argentina de Antropología XXXVI:249-270.
Trinkaus E. 1981. Neanderthal limb proportions and cold adaptation. En: Stringer CB, editor. Aspects of Human Evolution. Londres, Taylor & Francis. p. 187–224.
Borrero LA, Barberena R. 2006. Hunter-gatherer home ranges and marine resources. An archaeological case from Southern Patagonia. CurrAnthropol 47:855–867.
Brickley M, Ives R. 2008 The Bioarchaeology of Metabolic Bone Disease. San Diego, Academic Press.
Bridges PS, Blitz JH, Solano MC. 2000. Changes in long bone diaphyseal strength with horticultural intensification in west-central Illinois. Am J Phys Anthropol 112:217–238.
Brock SL, Ruff CB. 1988. Diachronic patterns of change in structural properties of the femur in the prehistoric American Southwest. Am J Phys Anthropol 75:113–127.
Buikstra JE, Milner GR. 1991. Isotopic and archaeological interpretations of diet in the central Mississippi valley. J of Arch Sci 18:319–329.
Cocilovo JA, Guichón RA. 1986. Propuesta para el estudio de las poblaciones aborígenes del extremo austral de Patagonia. Anales del Instituto de Patagonia 6:111-123.
Gil AF. 2003. Zea mays on South American periphery: chronology and dietary importance. Curr Anthropol 44: 295–300.
Gil AF, Tykot R, Neme GA, Shelnut N. 2006. Maize on the frontier. Isotopic and macrobotanical data from Central-Western Argentina. En: Staller J, Tykot R, Benz B, editores. Histories of maize. Multidisciplinary approaches to the prehistory, biogeography, domestication and evolution of maize. New York, Academic Press. p199–214.
Gil AF, Neme GA, Tykot H, Novellino P, Cortegoso V, Duran V. 2009. Stable isotopes and maize consumption in Central Western Argentina. Inter J Osteoarchaeol 19:215-236.
González Díaz E, Fauqué L. 1993. Geomorfología. En: Ramos V, editor. XII Congreso Geológico Argentino. Geología y Recursos Naturales de Mendoza. Relatorio I (14): Mendoza. p 217–234.
González-José R, García Moro C, Dahinten S, Hernández M. 2002. Origin of Fueguian-Patagonians: an approach to population history and structure using R matrix and matrix permutation methods. Am J Phys Anthropol 14:308-320.
Guichón RA. 1994. Antropología física de Tierra del Fuego. Caracterización biológica de las poblaciones prehispánicas. Tesis doctoral no publicada. Buenos Aires, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Guichón RA, Suby JA. 2011. Estudio bioarqueológico de los restos humanos recuperados por Anne Chapman en Caleta Falsa, Tierra del Fuego. Magallania 39(1):163-177.
Guichón RA, Muñoz AS, Borrero LA. 2000. Datos para una tafonomía de restos óseos humanos en Bahía San Sebastián, Tierra del Fuego. Relaciones de la Sociedad Argentina de Antropología XXV:297-313.
Gusinde M. 1982. Los Indios de Tierra del Fuego. Los Selk’nam. Buenos Aires, Centro Argentino de Etnología Americana.
Gusinde M. 1986. Los Indios de Tierra del Fuego. Los Yamana. Buenos Aires, Centro Argentino de Etnología Americana.
Holliday TW. 1999. Brachial and crural indices of European Late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic humans. J. Hum. Evol. 36, 549–566.
Holt BM. 2003. Mobility in upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic Europe: evidence from the lower limb. Am J Phys Anthropol 122:200–215.
Hyades P, Deniker J. 1891. Anthropologie et ethno-graphie. Mission scientifique du Cap Horn, 1882–1883, Vol. VII. Paris, Gauthier-Villars et fils.
Jurmain R, Cardoso FA, Henderson C, Villote S. 2012. Bioarchaeology’s holy grail: the reconstruction of activity. En: Grauer A, editor. A Companion to Paleopathology. Malden, Willey-Balckwell. p 531-552.
Kelly RL. 1992. Mobility/Sedentism: Concepts, Archaeological Measures, and Effects. Annual Review of Anthropology 21:43-66.
Lalueza C, Perez-Perez A, Prats E, Cornudella L, Turbon D. 1997. Lack of founding amerindian mitochondrial DNA lineages in extinct aborigines from Tierra de Fuego-Patagonia. Hum Mol Gen 6:41–46.
Larsen CS. 1995. Biological changes in human populations with agriculture. Ann Rev Anthrop 24:185–213.
Larsen CS. 2002. Bioarchaeology: the lives and lifestyles of past people. J Archaeol Res 10(2):119-166.
Ledger M, Holtzhausen LM, Constant D, Morris AG. 2000. Biomechanical beam analysis of long bones from a late 18th century slave cemetery in Cape Town, South Africa. Am J Phys Anthrop 112:207–216.
L'Heureux GL, Barberena R. 2008. Evidencias bioarqueológicas en Patagonia meridional: el sitio Orejas de Burro 1 (Pali Aike, Provincia de Santa Cruz). Intersecciones en Antropología 9:11-24.
L´Heureux GL, Guichón RA, Barberena R, Borrero LA. 2003. Durmiendo bajo el faro. Estudio de un entierro humano en Cabo Vírgenes (C.V.17), Pcia. de Santa Cruz, República Argentina. Intersecciones en Antropología 4:87-98.
Macintosh AA, Davies TG, Ryan TM, Shaw CN, Stock JT. 2013. Periosteal versus true cross-sectional geometry: A comparison along humeral, femoral, and tibial diaphysis. Am J Phys Anthropol 150(3):442–452.
Menéndez L, Novellino P, D´Addona L, Beguelín M, Brachetta N, Bernal V. 2014. En: Cortegoso V, Durán V, Gasco A, editores. Arqueología de ambientes de altura de Mendoza y San Juan, Argentina. Mendoza, EDIUC. p 101-125.
Morello F, Borrero LA, Massone M, Stern C, García-Herbst A, Mcculloch R, Arroyo-Kalin M, Calás E, Torres J, Prieto A. 2012. Hunter-gatherers, biogeographic barriers and the development of human settlement in Tierra del Fuego. Antiquity 86:71–87.
Nikita E, Siew YY, Stock J, Mattingly D, Lahr MM. 2011. Activity patterns in the Sahara Desert: An interpretation based on cross-sectional geometric properties. Am J Phys Anthropol 146:423–434
Novellino P, Gil A, Neme G, Durán V. 2004. El Consumo de maíz en el holoceno tardío del oeste argentino: Isótopos Estables y caries. Revista Española de Antropología Americana 34:85–110.
O’Neill MC, Ruff CB. 2004. Estimating human long bone cross-sectional geometric properties: a comparison of noninvasive methods. J Hum Evol 47(4):221-235.
Orquera LA, Piana EL. 1999. La vida material y social de los Yámana. Buenos Aires, Eudeba.
Orquera LA, Piana EL. 2009. Sea nomads of the Beagle Channel in Southernmost South America: over six thousand years of coastal adaptation and stability. J Isl CoastArchaeol:4:61–81.
Panarello H, Zangrado AF, Tessone A, Kozameh L, Testa N. 2006. Análisis comparativo de paleodietas humanas entre la región del canal de Beagle y Península Mitre: perspectivas desde los isótopos estables. Magallania 34(2):37-47.
Pearson OM, Lieberman DE. 2004. The aging of Wolff’s “law”: ontogeny and responses to mechanical loading in cortical bone. Yrbk Phys Anthropol 47:63–99.
Pearson O, Millones M. 2005. Rasgos esqueletales de adaptación al clima y a la actividad entre los habitantes aborígenes de Tierra del Fuego. Magallania 33(1):37-50.
Pearson OM, Buikstra JE. 2006. Behavior and the bones. En: Buikstra JE, Beck LA, editoras. Bioarchaeology. The contextual analysis of human remains. Amsterdam-Boston, Elsevier.
Pérez SI, Bernal V, González PN. 2007. Morphological differentiation of aboriginal human populations from Tierra del Fuego (Patagonia): implications for South American peopling. Am J Phys Anthropol 133:1067–1079.
Rhodes JA, Knüsel CJ. 2005. Activity-related skeletal change in medieval humeri: Cross-sectional and architectural alterations. Am J Phys Anthropol 128:536–546.
Ruff CB. 2008. Biomechanical analyses of archaeological human skeletons. En: Katzenberg MA, Saunders SR, editores. Biological anthropology of the human skeleton. New York: Wiley Liss. p 183–206.
Ruff CB, Hayes WC. 1982. Subperiosteal expansion and cortical remodeling of the human femur and tibia with aging. Science 217:945–948.
Ruff CB, Hayes WC. 1983. Cross-sectional geometry of Pecos Pueblo femora and tibiae—a biomechanical investigation. I. Method and general patterns of variation. Am J Phys Anthropol 60:359–381.
Ruff CB, Larsen CS, Hayes WC. 1984. Structural changes in the femur with the transition to agriculture on the Georgia coast. Am J Phys Anthropol 64:125–136.
Ruff CB, Larsen CS. 2014. Long bone structural analyses and the reconstruction of past mobility: a historical review. En: Carlson KJ, Marchi D, editors. Reconstructing mobility. New York, Springer. p 13-30.
Ruff CB, Trinkaus E, Walker A, Larsen CS. 1993. Postcranial robusticity in Homo, I: Temporal trends and mechanical interpretation. Am J Phys Anthropol 91:21–53.
Santiago F, Salemme M, Suby JA, Guichón RA. 2011. Restos óseos humanos en el norte de Tierra del Fuego. Aspectos contextuales, dietarios y paleopatológicos. Intersecciones en Antropología 12:147-162.
Sládek V, Berner M, Sailer R. 2006. Mobility in central European Late Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age: tibial cross-sectional geometry. J Archaeol Sci 33:470-482
Stock JT. 2006. Hunter-gatherer postcranial robusticity relative to patterns of mobility, climatic adaptation, and selection for tissue economy. Am J Phys Anthropol 131:194–204.
Stock J, Pfeiffer S. 2001. Linking structural variability in long bone diaphyses to habitual behaviors: foragers from the southern African Later Stone Age and the Andaman Islands. Am J Phys Anthropol 115: 337–348.
Stock JT, Shaw CN. 2007. Which measures of diaphyseal robusticity are robust? A comparison of external methods of quantifying the strength of long bone diaphyses to cross-sectional geometric properties. Am J Phys Anthropol 134:412–423.
Suby JA. 2007. Propiedades estructurales de restos óseos humanos y paleopatología en Patagonia Austral. Tesis Doctoral no publicada. Mar del Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata.
Suby JA, Guichón RA. 2009. Diet, nutrition and paleopathology in Southern Patagonia. Some experiences and perspectives. Int J Osteoarchaeol 19:328-336.
Suby JA, Salemme M, Santiago F. 2008. Análisis paleopatológico de los restos humanos del sitio Puesto Pescador 1 (Tierra del Fuego). Magallania 36(1): 53-64.
Suby JA, Zangrando AF, Piana EL. 2011. Exploraciones osteológicas de la salud de las poblaciones humanas del Canal Beagle. Relaciones de la Sociedad Argentina de Antropología XXXVI:249-270.
Trinkaus E. 1981. Neanderthal limb proportions and cold adaptation. En: Stringer CB, editor. Aspects of Human Evolution. Londres, Taylor & Francis. p. 187–224.
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Suby, J., & Novellino, P. (2017). Comparative analyses of cross-sectional geometry of tibias from southern Patagonia and central-north of Mendoza. Revista Argentina De Antropología Biológica, 19(2), 1. https://doi.org/10.17139/raab.2017.0019.02.01
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