Height as and indicator of quality of life through time, is it possible to compare without standards?. ; La estatura como indicador de calidad de vida a través del tiempo ¿es posible comparar sin estándares?

Because the body dimensions are the result of the complex interaction between individuals’ genetic determinants with the environment, height has been considered as an indicator of quality of life, health and nutrition in human populations. However, the way to obtain information about this characteristic is conditioned to the fact of working with living populations (anthropometry) or with skeletal remains from past populations (osteology), in which the methodology and techniques employed vary as well as the precision of the data obtained. The purpose of this study is to show de deductive potent... Mehr ...