Methodology for recording musculoskeletal stress markers.
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.boan.6947Keywords:
Biomechanics, Muscle attachment sites, Wolff’s law, Stress markersAbstract
Abstract. Human skeletal remains have been studied through physical anthropology and archaeology to understand ancient population lifestyles. Along with sciences like biomechanics, human remains can be studied from a different point of view, linking lifestyle and daily activities of a specific population. Bone, as living a tissue responds to external loads, diseases, traumas or activity-related forces by remodelling its gross morphology distributing the loads without harmful consequences to the body’s functions, these modifications are known as musculoskeletal stress markers. Thus biomechanics, working along with the physical anthropology data, may reconstruct movements experienced by an individual throughout his life, and combined with archaeological data it contributes to the awareness of ancient populations. This article pretends to be a review of the state of the art of the methodology used to record this bone marks.
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