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osteometry

 [os″te-om´ĕ-tre]
measurement of the bones.

os·te·om·e·try

(os'tē-om'ĕ-trē),
The branch of anthropometry concerned with the relative size of the different parts of the skeleton.
[osteo- + G. metron, measurement]

osteometry

/os·te·om·e·try/ (os″te-om´ĭ-tre) measurement of the bones.

osteometry

measurement of the bones.
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The osteometry shows certain changes in the size of various specimens at a regional level in this chronological context, and these values tend to be metrically comparable to those of llamas.
The different strands of evidence--archaeofaunal and lithic--attest to the process of intensification and domestication in the southern Andes between the sixth and fourth millennia BE Intensification is evidenced through the use of blade technology in conjunction with changes in slaughter profiles and osteometry.
Middle Holocene intensification and domestication of camelids in north Argentina, as tracked by zooarchaeology and lithics

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