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The use of skeletal and complementary evidence to and stimate human stature and identify the presence and of women in the recent archaeological record of and the Namib desert

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Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies Archaeology and ancient environmental studies Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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Archaeological estimates of human stature are principally reliant on skeletal evidence, and assessment of past population stature is therefore limited by available sample size. Pre-colonial southern African hunter-gatherer and nomadic pastoralist populations are difficult to characterise in this way, due to the general scarcity of skeletal evidence (e.g. Morris 1992: 72). The problem of small sample size is most acute in arid parts of the region, where population density was especially low.

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