Physical activity and social status in Early Bronze Age society: The Mokrin necropolis Export

@article{citeulike:5256042, abstract = {This paper investigates the social structure of an Early Bronze Age society whose members were buried at the necropolis of Mokrin (Serbia, Southeastern Europe), by comparative analysis of musculo-skeletal markers (MSM) of activity and social status as induced on the basis of grave contents. The main objective of the analysis is to determine whether quantitative and qualitative differences in activity are related to social status. Besides using an overall measure of activity, we attempted to isolate different qualitative aspects (facets) of activity through factor analysis of MSM scores. No correlation between social status and overall labor intensity was found. However, there are clues that social status and a single facet of activity are related. Positive correlation between vertical status and the intensity of use of upper arm and shoulder muscles was found among male individuals, while negative correlation between the aforementioned variables was found among the females. The general conclusion based on the results of this study is that there is no simple correlation between the overall labor intensity and social status.}, author = {Por\v{c}i\'{c}, Marko and Stefanovi\'{c}, Sofija}, citeulike-article-id = {5256042}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2009.06.001}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0278416509000312}, day = {21}, doi = {10.1016/j.jaa.2009.06.001}, issn = {02784165}, journal = {Journal of Anthropological Archaeology}, keywords = {200907, age-du-bronze, paleoanthropologie, paleopathologie, serbie, societe}, month = {July}, posted-at = {2009-07-27 11:09:59}, priority = {2}, title = {Physical activity and social status in Early Bronze Age society: The Mokrin necropolis}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2009.06.001}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5256042 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5256042 N2 - This paper investigates the social structure of an Early Bronze Age society whose members were buried at the necropolis of Mokrin (Serbia, Southeastern Europe), by comparative analysis of musculo-skeletal markers (MSM) of activity and social status as induced on the basis of grave contents. The main objective of the analysis is to determine whether quantitative and qualitative differences in activity are related to social status. Besides using an overall measure of activity, we attempted to isolate different qualitative aspects (facets) of activity through factor analysis of MSM scores. No correlation between social status and overall labor intensity was found. However, there are clues that social status and a single facet of activity are related. Positive correlation between vertical status and the intensity of use of upper arm and shoulder muscles was found among male individuals, while negative correlation between the aforementioned variables was found among the females. The general conclusion based on the results of this study is that there is no simple correlation between the overall labor intensity and social status. JF - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology SN - 02784165 TI - Physical activity and social status in Early Bronze Age society: The Mokrin necropolis KW - 200907 KW - age-du-bronze KW - paleoanthropologie KW - paleopathologie KW - serbie KW - societe AU - Porčić, Marko AU - Stefanović, Sofija PY - 2009/07/21/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2009.06.001 ER -