Forensic anthropologists are frequently confronted with the need to interpret burnt bone.
Regardless of the context, one of the key factors for the correct interpretation of the remains …

Archaeological sites are not distributed evenly throughout the landscape. For the
Palaeolithic record, signals derived from the inhomogeneous spatial patterns are used to …

Taxonomy relies greatly on morphology to discriminate groups. Computerized geometric
morphometric methods for quantitative shape analysis measure, test and visualize …

The ability to document the effects of domestication from archaeological remains of animals
and plants is essential for reconstructing the history of one of the most important transitions …

Using sampling experiments, we found that, when there are fewer groups than variables,
between-groups PCA (bgPCA) may suggest surprisingly distinct differences among groups …

It is widely accepted that the most accurate statistical estimations of biological attributes in
the human skeleton (eg, sex, age and stature) are produced using population-specific …

2 1 Introduction agree on any single scheme for faunal successions, and, secondly, instead
of using presence-absence of species, Lartet used the relative abundance of species. How …

Background Identifying the phenotypic responses to domestication remains a long-standing
and important question for researchers studying its early history. The great diversity in …

Requisite to routine casework involving unidentified skeletal remains is the formulation of an
accurate biological profile, including sex estimation. Choice of method (s) is invariably …

Efforts to identify Paleolithic dogs or incipient dogs have been based mainly on examination
of complete or nearly complete crania. Complete skulls are, however, very rare in the …