Posted on 11/29/2017 2:57:01 PM PST by BenLurkin
Abstract
The intensification of agriculture is often associated with declining mobility and bone strength through time, although women often exhibit less pronounced trends than men. For example, previous studies of prehistoric Central European agriculturalists (~5300 calibrated years BC to 850 AD) demonstrated a significant reduction in tibial rigidity among men, whereas women were characterized by low tibial rigidity, little temporal change, and high variability.
Because of the potential for sex-specific skeletal responses to mechanical loading and a lack of modern comparative data, women’s activity in prehistory remains difficult to interpret.
This study compares humeral and tibial cross-sectional rigidity, shape, and interlimb loading among prehistoric Central European women agriculturalists and living European women of known behavior (athletes and controls). Prehistoric female tibial rigidity at all time periods was highly variable, but differed little from living sedentary women on average, and was significantly lower than that of living runners and football players.
However, humeral rigidity exceeded that of living athletes for the first ~5500 years of farming, with loading intensity biased heavily toward the upper limb. Interlimb strength proportions among Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age women were most similar to those of living semi-elite rowers.
These results suggest that, in contrast to men, rigorous manual labor was a more important component of prehistoric women’s behavior than was terrestrial mobility through thousands of years of European agriculture, at levels far exceeding those of modern women.
I am so turned on right now. Prehistoric female tibial rigidity talk always gets me hot.
Just don’t try to compliment a modern woman on her tibial rigidity, you’re likely to get fired for harassment!
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that these women didn’t get sexually harassed.
And then university graduates, who spend tens of thousands of dollars for a degree in this nonsense, are amazed and depressed that the only job openings for them are at Starbuck’s.
What will be the analysis when they dig up President Clinton, Matt Lauer, Harvey Weinstein, Anthony Weiner, Kevin Spacey, and Charlie Rose bones 3000 years from now??
“Just don’t try to compliment a modern woman on her tibial rigidity, you’re likely to get fired for harassment!”
Primitive women had no spin classes or pilates. They couldn't be in good shape without a gym membership and a good massage therapist.
Just impossible.
Before the white man came to the new world and brought horses, the natives had two beasts of burden. The first was the women. The second was the dogs.
Ain’t fossil fuels, white men’s capitalistic, egocentric inventions wonderful!
(And it was all for sex. The more well-rested, the more well-fed, the more well-safe a woman feels, the more likely she is to make out with all that commotion and travel and effort of rape, wine, and remote pillaging. )
“low tibial rigidity”
Guys, there are pills that can help with that.
Prehistoric gals could sqeeze 'em out with very little effort.
Well, as a deeply religious person (really), I like to quote Ben Frankin’s apocryphal comment on the matter: “beer is proof that God loves us.”
Older women don't tell, don't swell, and they're grateful as hell.
Then those evil men forced them into the kitchen to make sammiches.
A sammich is a sammich, but a mastadonwich is a meal!
This does not surprise me. Life is hard today. Life was harder then.
Gone are the days where you would just reach in and grab one.
Bronto-burgers were heavy.
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