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View larger version (98K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. Panel A shows the skeleton of a person buried at Unterhautzental, Austria, in the early Bronze Age (between 2200 and 1600 B.C.), and Panel B the results of dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry of the hip. It was determined that the person was a woman who died at about 45 years of age, given the degree of closure of the cranial sutures and the configuration of the skull, teeth, and pelvis. The bone mineral density of the femoral neck (rectangle) was 0.831 g per square centimeter. The mean (±SD) value for all 14 women of a similar age who . . . [Full Text of this Article]

 

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