Forensic sex estimation using the vertebrae: an evaluation on two European populations

N Garoufi, A Bertsatos, ME Chovalopoulou… - International journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Sex estimation is one of the primary steps for constructing the biological profile of skeletal
remains leading to their identification in the forensic context. While the pelvis is the most sex …

What we see is what we touch? Sex estimation on the pelvis in virtual anthropology

S Braun, N Schwendener, F Kanz, S Lösch… - International journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Background Computed tomography (CT) scans are a convenient means to study 3D
reconstructions of bones. However, errors associated with the different nature of the …

The third dimension of stone points: 2D vs. 3D geometric morphometric shape analysis

HL Smith, TA Jennings, AM Smallwood - … and Anthropological Sciences, 2024 - Springer
Only recently has the use of 3D-scanning technology enhanced our ability to consider shape
using landmark approaches to geometric morphometrics (GM). Studies examining several …

Approaches to studying endocranial morphology in Euarchontoglires: Assessing sources of error for a novel and biologically informative set of landmarks

MM Lang, R Allemand, C López-Aguirre… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2023 - Springer
Despite its importance for making biologically meaningful conclusions in geometric
morphometric analyses, landmark error is inconsistently assessed. We evaluate a set of 30 …

A three-dimensional functional data geometric morphometrics approach for exploring shape variation

AB Pillay, S Dabo-Niang, D Pathmanathan - 2023 - researchsquare.com
This research introduces a new method for analysing shape variation for 3D landmark
coordinate data, called functional data geometric morphometrics (FDGM). FDGM uses …