Abbott S, Trinkaus E, Burr D B
Department of Anatomy, Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis 46202-5120, USA.
Am J Phys Anthropol. 1996 Apr;99(4):585-601. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199604)99:4<585::AID-AJPA5>3.0.CO;2-T.
Histomorphometric analysis of femoral and tibial diaphyseal fragments from seven Late Archaic and three Early Modern humans are compared with those of the Pecos, a pre-Columbian Native American population. The ten samples, from Broken Hill (EM-793), Shanidar 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, Tabun 1, and Skhul 3, 6, and 7, provide age-at death results consistent with earlier estimates for most individuals. The Pleistocene groups exhibit less bone turnover and smaller osteons than Recent populations. Resorption and formation were both coupled and balanced in these Pleistocene populations, but the overall vigor of individual cells from both the osteoclast and osteoblast cell lines was less than in Recent populations. Thus the greater bone mass in Later Pleistocene members of the genus Homo is not the result of higher levels of bone turnover, at least among adults.
对来自七名晚更新世古人类和三名现代早期人类的股骨和胫骨干骺端碎片进行组织形态计量学分析，并与前哥伦布时期的美洲原住民佩科斯人的样本进行比较。这十个样本分别来自布罗肯希尔（EM - 793）、沙尼达尔2号、3号、4号、5号和6号、塔邦1号以及斯库尔3号、6号和7号，得出的死亡年龄结果与大多数个体的早期估计一致。更新世群体的骨转换率较低，骨单位比近代群体小。在这些更新世群体中，骨吸收和骨形成都是耦合且平衡的，但破骨细胞和成骨细胞系中单个细胞的整体活力低于近代群体。因此，至少在成年人中，更新世晚期智人属成员更大的骨量并非骨转换水平较高的结果。
