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Developmental Implications Of Palmar Dermatoglyphics Among Highland And Lowland Peruvian Quechua, Kenneth R. Parham

Doctoral Dissertations

This study presents a comparison of quantitative palmar dermatoglyphic characters among highland and lowland Peruvian Quechua. These data are interpreted in light of an environmental hypothesis suggesting that hypoxia at high altitude affects the development of the fetus during the first trimester of gestation when dermal ridges are formed.

The highland population is from the village of Ondores in the Province and Department of Junin, and the lowland population, the only known Quechua-speakers from the tropics east of the Andes, is from the village of Pamashto in the Province of Lamas and the Department of San Martin. Historical accounts and …

A Search For Systematic Variability In Inter-Finger Ridge Count Variation Among European Groups, Kenneth Melvin Binkley

Doctoral Dissertations

Inter-finger ridge count variability has been shown to discriminate among major racial groups. However, little has been accomplished in the way of demonstrating patterned dispersion of inter-finger ridge count variability among groups of a major population. Here, multivariate techniques are used in a series of discovery procedures to search for systematic variability of finger ridge count contrasts among 48 male and 47 female European groups. Among-group biological variability of each sex is defined by principal components analysis, using the finger ridge count means of each group and a pooled within-group, within-sex covariance matrix having 5,474 degrees of freedom. Multiple regression …

Developmental Ossification Patterns In The Human Sternum From Fetus To 19 Years Of Age: A Cross Sectional Study Based On Radiographic Analysis, William Cesar Rodriguez Iii

Doctoral Dissertations

The developmental ossification patterns in the sternal radiographs of 479 autopsy cases were analyzed in an attempt to determine the variation of ossification patterns in relation to age, sex and race. This study population consisted of 302 fetuses or newborns ranging in gestational age from 18 to 38 weeks, and 177 children or subadults ranging in age from 1 month to 19 years of age. Examination of the sternal radiographs revealed that the number and patterning of ossification centers in the sternum varied with age.

Variation in ossification patterning was found to be greatest during pre-natal and early post-natal development. …

Late Middle Woodland Settlement And Subsistence Patterns In The Eastern Highland Rim Of Tennessee, James E. Cobb

Doctoral Dissertations

The Owl Hollow phase, a late Middle Woodland tradition, is identified in the upper Duck and Elk river valleys in the Eastern Highland Rim of south-central Tennessee. This hunter-gatherer and horticultural adaptation is documented with the material remains and features associated with eight large intensively occupied sites located in the main river valleys along minor tributary streams that drain the Highland Rim. Forty radiocarbon and eight archaeomagnetic dates indicate a temporal range of about A.D. 200-650 for the late Middle Woodland Owl Hollow phase.

The recovery of contemporaneous warm and cold season structures and a variety of associated seasonality data …