Hello Kathy,
if you mean cross-sectional geometry and its biomechanical analysis in
the sense Ch.Ruff introduced it into anthropology ... outside the
primatological realm I am only aware of studies on carnivores and
rodents (we had a short excursion into equids as well); there are
papers on the functional morphology of locomotor adaptations in bovids,
but with no special focus on geometrical properties of cross-sectional
images, which is usually approached by "shaft diameters" or similar,
awkward linear external measurements; of course, cross-sectional
geometry is a constant feature of "everyday archaeozoological life",
when discriminating shaft splinters of metacarpals and metatarsals, or
ovicaprine and pig bones, but this is done "unconsciously".
all the best
Günther Karl Kunst
University of Vienna
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