The diachronic trend of female and male stature in Milan over 2000 years
Lucie Biehler‐Gomez|Beatrice Del Bo|Daniele Petrosino|Paolo Morandini|Mirko Mattia|Luca Palazzolo|Uliano Guerrini|Cristina Cattaneo
Stature is a biological trait directly determined by the interaction of genetic and environmental components. As such, it often evaluated as an indicator for reconstruction skeletal profiles, past health, social dynamics human populations. Based on analysis 549 skeletons from CAL (Collezione Antropologica LABANOF), study diachronic trend male female adult stature in Milan (Italy) being proposed here, covering time span about 2000 years, ranging Roman era to present-days. The skeletons, necropolises dedicated less wealthy classes Milanese society, were assigned one following five historical periods: Era (first-fifth centuries AD), Early Middle Ages (sixth-tenth Late (eleventh-fifteenth Modern (sixteenth-eighteenth AD) Contemporary (nineteenth-twentieth their was estimated according regression formulae Trotter (1970). collected data then subjected statistical analyses with ANOVA using R software. Although values showed ample standard deviation all periods, that did not significantly vary across periods both sexes. This rare studies showing no changes Europe.
Scientific Reports|Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca (Universita Degli Studi Di Milano)|PubMed Central|PubMed