Volume 90 (2012)
Cover Story
Invited Reviews
Scratching the Surface? The use of surface scanning in physical and paleoanthropology
Martin Friess
7-31 [full text] [supplementary material: SOM1(BM), SOM2(NE)]
doi: 10.4436/jass.90004
Studying cranial vault modifications in ancient mesoamerica
Vera Tiesler
33-58 [full text]
doi: 10.4436/jass.90007
The frontal bone in the genus Homo: a survey of functional and phylogenetic sources of variation
Sheela Athreya
59-80 [full text]
doi: 10.4436/jass.90008
Dynamics of genetic and morphological variability within Neandertals
John Hawks
81-87 [full text]
doi: 10.4436/jass.90019
Historical Corner
Many ways of being human, the Stephen J. Gould’s legacy to Palaeo-Anthropology (2002-2012)
Telmo Pievani
133-149 [full text]
doi: 10.4436/jass.90016
Reports
Refined age estimates and Paleoanthropological investigation of the Manyara Beds, Tanzania
Stephen R. Frost, Hilde L. Schwartz, Liane Giemsch, Leah E. Morgan, Paul R. Renne, Maya Wildgoose, Charles Saanane, Friedemann Schrenk & Katerina Harvati
151-169 [full text] [Anthro-DigiItdata]
doi: 10.4436/jass.90001
Buccal dental microwear analyses support greater specialization in consumption of hard foodstuffs for Australopithecus anamensis
Ferran Estebaranz, Jordi Galbany, Laura M Martínez, Daniel Turbón & Alejandro Pérez-Pérez
163-185 [full text] [Anthro-DigiItdata]
doi: 10.4436/jass.90006
Correspondence & Notes
Right-handedness, lateralization and language in Neanderthals: A comment on Frayer et al. (2010)
Antonio Benítez-Burraco & Víctor M. Longa
187-192 [full text]
doi: 10.4436/jass.90002
Reply to Benítez-Burraco & Longa: When is enough, enough?
David W. Frayer,Ivana Fiore, Carles Lalueza-Fox, Jakov Radovčić & Luca Bondioli
193-197 [full text]
doi: 10.4436/jass.90003
An unusual surgical treatment of the skull following trauma during the Copper Age (IV millennium B.C.) in Italy
Vincenzo Formicola, Sonia Cammellini, Davide Caramella, Angiolo Del Lucchese, Gwenaelle Goude, Mariasilvia Saccon & Gino Fornaciari
199-200 [full text]
doi: 10.4436/jass.90017
Do it yourself
Online databases for mtDNA and Y chromosome polymorphisms in human populations
Alessandra Congiu, Paolo Anagnostou, Nicola Milia, Marco Capocasa, Francesco Montinaro & Giovanni Destro-Bisol
201-215 [full text] [Anthro-DigiItdata]
doi: 10.4436/jass.90020
JASs forum
Anthropology and Economic History
Body dimensions and socioeconomic development: an introduction
Maria Enrica Danubio
217-219 [full text]
doi 10.4436/jass.90010
An anthropometric history of the World, 1810-1980: did migration and globalization influence country trends?
Jörg Baten & Matthias Blum
221-224 [full text]
doi 10.4436/jass.90011
Climate, height and economic development in sub- Saharan Africa
Alexander Moradi
225-228 [full text]
doi 10.4436/jass.90012
Anthropological variables as economic indicators
Maria Enrica Danubio & Emanuele Sanna
229-232 [full text]
doi 10.4436/jass.90013
Secular trend and regional differences in the stature of Italians
Emilia Arcaleni
233-237 [full text]
doi 10.4436/jass.90014
The trend of stature in pre-protohistoric Central- Southern Italy
Domenico Mancinelli & Rita Vargiu
239-242 [full text]
doi 10.4436/jass.90015