From athletes to couch potatoes: Humans through 6,000 years of farming
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 10:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Research into the strength and shape of lower limb bones shows that, in the first 6,000 years of farming, our ancestors in Central Europe became less active as their tasks diversified and technology improved. Anthropologists show that this drop in mobility was particularly marked in men.