Browsing 2008 MU theses - Freely available online by Thesis Department "Anthropology (MU)"

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  • Estimation of adult skeletal age-at-death using the Sugeno fuzzy integral 

    Anderson, Melissa Fay (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    Age-at-death estimation of an individual skeleton is important to forensic and biological anthropologists for identification and demographic analysis, but it has been shown that current aging methods are often unreliable ...

  • Functional morphology of the anthropoid talocrural joint 

    Marquardt, Mary Johanna (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    The form and function of the talocrural joint of anthropoids is frequently used to infer positional behaviors of fossil catarrhines without clear and quantitative data to support these inferences. Specifically, greater ...

  • Patterns of local mobility in an Iban community of West Kalimantan, Indonesia 

    Patterson, Katherine-Anne V. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    This study examines the concept of mobility in relation to small-scale, subsistence-oriented societies, in which groups and individuals create complex resource networks in order to satisfy physical and social needs. Mobility ...