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Artisan production and morphological changes in skeletons from San Jose de Moro (North coast of Peru) (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Elsa Tomasto-Cagigao. Luis Jaime Castillo.

The study of occupational stress markers was an attractive investigation field some years ago, due to the alleged possibility for the identification of ancient activities through skeletal changes. Nevertheless, a critical vision of the issue evidences that this relation is not so easy to establish, because bone biology is complex and also because different activities may produce similar changes. This does not mean that this type of studies should be abandoned. On the contrary, it is a call for...