Stature Reconstruction

7 important questions on Stature Reconstruction

What factorsinfluence stature in positive and negative ways?

  • 60% to 80% genetic factors
  • Environment

Why do we mostly use the lengths of long bones, but not of other bones to estimate stature from skeletal remains?

Because long bones contribute most to our height, and therefore have the strongest correlation to stature

The offspring of immigrants to the Netherlands from North-Africa have been ............... Since arriving in the Netherlands

Growing taller
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Dutch people have been ........ Since the end of the Second World War

The tallest in the world

How many bones are there that contribute to your height?

30
There's also a non-skeletal tissue between these bones

What are professor Maat's main findings?

  • People are getting taller all the time. They have been doing so for the last 2000 years
  • We were getting smaller for over 1800 years
  • With the Industrial Revolution we increased in length with an incredible more than 17 cm in 150 years

What equation is being used to estimate stature?

Regression equation Trotter (1970)

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