Reconstructing Mobility

Ch 1. Introduction. Carlson, Kristian & Marchi, Damiano Ch 2. Long bone structural analyses and the reconstruction of past mobility - a historical review Ch 3. Bipedalism and musculoskeletal stress markers: variation and what it reveals about adaptation, environmental stress, and reconstructing activity patterns Ch 4. More than the Midshaft?||; Mapping cross-sectional properties along the entire femoral and tibial diaphysis Ch 5. Human variation in the periosteal geometry of the lower limb: Signatures of behavior among diverse hunter-gatherer samples Ch 6. Femoral diaphyseal shape and mobility: an ontogenetic perspective Ch 7. The relationship between femoral shape and terrestrial mobility patterns Ch 8. Activity, --body shape||, and cross-sectional geometry of the femur and tibia Ch 9. Variation in mobility and anatomical strategies in the Late Pleistocene Ch 10. The importance of fibular diaphyseal robusticity to infer mobility patterns in past populations Ch 11. The balance between burden carrying, variable terrain and thermoregulatory pressures in assessing morphological variation Ch 12. Mobility and diaphyseal robusticity throughout the appendicular skeleton: modern human hunter-gatherers, fossil hominins, and extant apes Ch 13. Territory size in Canis lupus: implications for Neandertal mobility Ch 14. Long bone cross-sectional shape and robusticity in mountainous and flat terrain bovids: implications for Neandertal locomotor behavior Ch 15. Mobility and function during shod and barefoot walking Ch 16. How linear is the real world? An experimental assessment of non-linearity in terrestrial locomotion Ch 17. Relationship between mobility patterns and functional anatomy in Hominoidea Ch 18. Is there biomechanical equivalence when comparing mobility across individuals and species?