Social Stress and Bone Loss at Point of Pines Pueblo, Arizona: A pQCT Study on Archaeological Bone

Bone loss is an important skeletal indicator of environmental stress. Cortical and trabecular bone, however, are differentially affected by various stressors. Peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT) potentially addresses this issue by separately calculating cortical and trabecular bone mi...

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Main Author: Mountain, Rebecca Vivienne
Other Authors: Watson, James T.
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/311471