The ability to make behavioural inferences from skeletal remains is critical to understanding
the lifestyles and activities of past human populations and extinct animals. Muscle …

Identified skeletal collections, that is, skeletons for which sex, age at death and occupation at
death are known, have been used to test methods for recording entheseal changes (EC). By …

Analyses of entheseal changes (EC) in identified skeletal samples employ a common
research strategy based on the comparison between occupations grouped on the basis of …

In 1998 this journal, the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, published its second
ever special issue entitled 'Stress Markers'(Peterson and Hawkey, 1998). That special issue …

One of the main factors involved in entheseal changes (EC) aetiology may be related to the
physiological limits of biomechanical loading fixed during bone development, such that …

Studies on identified skeletal collections yield discordant results about the association
between osseous changes and activity. These dissonances can be ascribed to several …

Osteological collections are an essential source of information on human biological and
cultural variability, providing insights about developmental, evolutionary, and biocultural …

Osteoarchaeological studies provide valuable information concerning living conditions and
life course changes in past societies. However, many skeletal markers, such as entheseal …

This article evaluates rates of osteoarthritis of the lower limb in human remains from Deir el‐
Medina in order to compare the health of the residents of Deir el‐Medina with previous …

The present study aims to evaluate the frequency of entheseal changes (EC) in a modern
skeletal collection from the rural village of Inden, Germany (late 19th–early 20th century), in …