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Research methods section of an archaeological study detailing photogrammetric data acquisition, landmark-based geometric morphometric procedures, and statistical analyses used to investigate cranial base shape variation and ancestry among European populations associated with Iceland and Greenland settlements.
Section: Research
Field: Archaeology
Subfield: Geometric morphometrics
Topic: Cranial base shape and population ancestry
Authors: Kimberly A. Plomp; Keith Dobney; Hildur Gestsdóttir; Mark Collard
Corresponding authors: Kimberly A. Plomp; Mark Collard
Institutions: University of the Philippines Diliman; Simon Fraser University; University of Sydney; University of Aberdeen; Institute of Archaeology, Reykjavik
Geographical focus: Iceland; Greenland; Scandinavia; British Isles
Sample groups: Greenlandic; Scandinavian; southern British; Scottish and Irish
Methods: Photogrammetry; 3D modelling; landmark-based geometric morphometrics; Generalised Procrustes Analysis; Principal Components Analysis; Canonical Variates Analysis; Linear Discriminant Analysis; MANOVA
Software: Agisoft Metashape (2019 edition); MorphoDig; Morphologika; MorphoJ; R
Landmarks recorded: 34 cranial base and temporal bone landmarks
Data collection: XYZ coordinates recorded from 3D cranial models
Intra-observer error assessment: Repeated digitisation and Procrustes distance comparison
Analytical framework: Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) and comparative shape analysis
References cited: Evin et al. (2013, 2015, 2016); Harvati & Weaver (2006); Bookstein (1991); Neubauer et al. (2009, 2010); Klingenberg (2011); Slice (2007); O’Higgins & Jones (2006); Plomp et al. (2021)
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