J 2022

Metric Differences in Adult Second Metacarpal Bones Related to Age-at-Death and Their Comparison Between Recent and Historical Populations

ŠKULTÉTYOVÁ, Anna, Marta KRENZ-NIEDBAŁA, Miroslav KRÁLÍK, Pavel FOJTÍK, Lenka SEDLÁČKOVÁ et. al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Metric Differences in Adult Second Metacarpal Bones Related to Age-at-Death and Their Comparison Between Recent and Historical Populations

Autoři

ŠKULTÉTYOVÁ, Anna (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí), Marta KRENZ-NIEDBAŁA (616 Polsko), Miroslav KRÁLÍK (203 Česká republika, domácí), Pavel FOJTÍK (203 Česká republika) a Lenka SEDLÁČKOVÁ (203 Česká republika)

Vydání

Anthropologie, Brno, Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic, 2022, 0323-1119

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10700 1.7 Other natural sciences

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 0.200

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14310/22:00126997

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

UT WoS

000920962700006

Klíčová slova česky

záprstní kosti; věkové změny; životní historie; věk v době smrti; osteometrie

Klíčová slova anglicky

metacarpal bones; age-related changes; life history; age at death; osteometry

Štítky

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 15. 2. 2024 09:53, Mgr. Marie Šípková, DiS.

Anotace

V originále

Hand bones can reflect external factors during ontogenesis and individual life history. The goal of this study was to examine age-related changes in the 2nd metacarpal in adulthood. Metacarpal bones of archaeologically excavated adult skeletons from three different medieval burial sites – Cedynia (Poland), Brno–Vídeňská Street (Czech Republic), and Dětkovice–Za zahradama (Czech Republic) –were collected, described, and scanned by means of a flatbed scanner in standardized dorsal and radial positions into two-dimensional images. On them, four measurements (one length and three widths) were taken on each view and subsequently subjected to statistical regression methods in order to quantify their relationship with age at death. These trends were compared with those in a documented sample of the Athens Human Skeletal Reference Collection of the recent Greek population. In females, no significant relationship between the length of the 2nd metacarpal and age at death (AAD) was observed. In females, mostly positive relationships between width measurements and AAD were observed, ranging typically between 3 to 7% over 30 years, with maximum of ca. 9% in midshaft width in the right hand in dorsal view. These relationships were more statistically significant for the recent than for the medieval sample which might be attributed to differences in sample size, and the nature of AAD (documented vs. estimated). In males, relationships between width measurements and AAD (i.e., an increase with age) were also prevalently positive but much lower than in females and mostly not statistically significant. The systematic increase of the width measurements in females and the differences from males of the same samples suggest certain specificities of women´s life histories in adulthood that would be worth further investigation in terms of the influence of external factors. Potential methodological biases due to the cross-sectional nature of the samples and sampling selectivity are further discussed.

Návaznosti

EF19_073/0016943, projekt VaV
Název: Interní grantová agentura Masarykovy univerzity