M A Schillaci
Biographic Data
| ID | 9459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M A Schillaci |
| GIVEN NAMES | M A |
| FAMILY NAME | Schillaci |
| SIGNATURE | SCHILLACI M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9169-8456 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 269 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Making connections: Ostrich eggshell beads as indicators of precolonial societal interaction in southeastern southern Africa
Ostriches are peculiar birds and their strangeness has been recognised by southern African hunter-gatherers through multiple symbolic associations. Such qualities are likely to have been enhanced where people had access to beads made from their eggshell but did not have direct knowledge of the birds themselves. Southeastern southern Africa, encompassing the Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains, the eastern half of the Eastern Cape Province and much of Kw…
Evolutionary history of orangutan plasmodia revealed by phylogenetic analysis of complete mtDNA genomes and new biogeographical divergence dating calibration models
During the past 15 years, researchers have shown a renewed interest in the study of the Plasmodium parasites that infect orangutans. Most recently, studies examined the phylogenetic relationships and divergence dates of these parasites in orangutans using complete mitochondrial DNA genomes. Questions regarding the dating of these parasites, however, remain. In the present study, we provide a new calibration model for dating the origins of Plasmod…
Primatology and one health: Two disciplines destined to come together
The peer review history for this article is available at https://publons.com/publon/10.1002/ajp.23391 Not available
Estimating the population variance, standard deviation, and coefficient of variation: Sample size and accuracy
Inferring the Relationships of the Gallina and Pottery Mound Pueblo Populations Using Craniometric and Dental Morphological Biodistance
This article examines the biological relationships of two groups from the precontact Southwestern United States: the Gallina of Northern New Mexico and Pottery Mound Pueblo in the Middle Rio Grande region of New Mexico. These two groups existed at different times and differ considerably in their social conditions and cultural traditions. We examine geographic and temporal structure of relationships by testing an isolation by distance model. We al…
Another Look at Tewa Origins: The Biological Evidence
The following is a critical re-evaluation of the results and data pertaining to the analysis of biological relationships presented in a 2012 monograph on Tewa origins titled Winds from the North: Tewa Origins and Historical Anthropology by Scott G. Ortman. The present critique focuses on the biological evidence that ancestral Tewa populations of the Northern Rio Grande region (NRG) are the direct lineal descendants of Mesa Verde region residents …
Analysis of Ceramic Compositional Data from Late Developmental Period Sites in the Tewa Basin, New Mexico
The presence of Cibola white ware ceramic types at Late Developmental period sites in the Northern Rio Grande (NRG) region of New Mexico has been interpreted as a strong indicator of cultural interaction with, or immigration from, communities associated with the Chaco regional system in the American Southwest. We report the results of an analysis of chemical composition data obtained from neutron activation analysis (NAA) of pottery sherds origin…
Mitogenomics of macaques (Macaca) across Wallace's Line in the context of modern human dispersals
Wallace's Line demarcates a biogeographical boundary between the Indomalaya and Australasian ecoregions. Most placental mammalian genera, for example, occur to the west of this line, whereas most marsupial genera occur to the east. However, macaque monkeys are unusual because they naturally occur on both western and eastern sides. To further explore this anomalous distribution, we analyzed 222 mitochondrial genomes from ∼20 macaque species, inclu…
Tewa Place Names for Early Habitation Sites in the Northern Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico
Place names have the potential to aid in the investigation of regional settlement histories because they reflect the importance of specific locations in the social or cultural memories of indigenous groups. Unique place names for ancient habitation sites such as villages or hamlets, i.e., those names for which there are no cognates in other languages, suggest that those ancient villages or hamlets still retain the names given to them by their ori…
The Emergence of Kwahe’e Black-on-white pottery in the Tewa Basin, New Mexico
Despite the importance of ceramic typologies for defining archaeological cultures and making chronological inferences, the ceramic types comprising these typologies are not always well dated. Here, we present an analysis of radiocarbon dates generated from Accelerator Mass Spectrometry of corn remains found in association with Kwahe’e Black-on-white (Kwahe’e B/w) ceramics from the Tewa Basin of the Northern Rio Grande region of New Mexico in the …
Linguistic Clues to Iroquoian Prehistory
This paper employs a quantitative analysis of lexical data to generate a tree describing the historical relationships among Iroquoian languages. An alternative to glottochronology is used to estimate the timing of branching events within the tree. We estimate the homeland of the language family using lexical and geographic distance measures and then compare this estimate with homeland determinations in the literature. Our results suggest that Pro…
Refiguring the Population History of the Tewa Basin
Estimates of regional population sizes in the Northern Rio Grande region (NRG) of New Mexico during the Coalition period (A.D. 1200–1350) have been used to infer large-scale immigration from the central Mesa Verde region of southwestern Colorado after A.D. 1250/1275. Here we compare the most recent population estimates for these two regions and critically examine the assertion that the Tewa language was brought to the Tewa Basin within the NRG th…
Body mass as a confounding variable when predicting group size from orbit diameter and neocortex ratio
Variation in hair δ13C and δ15N values in long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) from Singapore
From the Mouths of Monkeys: Detection of M ycobacterium t uberculosis Complex DNA From Buccal Swabs of Synanthropic Macaques
Although the M ycobacterium tuberculosis complex ( MTBC ) infects a third of all humans, little is known regarding the prevalence of mycobacterial infection in nonhuman primates ( NHP ). For more than a century, tuberculosis has been regarded as a serious infectious threat to NHP species. Advances in the detection of MTBC open new possibilities for investigating the effects of this poorly understood pathogen in diverse populations of NHP . Here, …
Technical note: Comparison of the maresh reference data with the who international standard for normal growth in healthy children
The Maresh reference data on stature and long bone lengths in a sample of healthy middle‐class children from Denver, Colorado [Maresh: Am J Dis Child 66 ( 1943 ) 227–257; Maresh: Am J Dis Child 89 ( 1955 ) 725–742; Maresh: Human growth and development ( 1970 ) p 155–200], have been used extensively by biological anthropologists to estimate juvenile age and body size using skeletal elements and to assess growth in skeletal series from different et…
Lead levels in long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) hair from Singapore
Infant and juvenile growth in ancestral Pueblo Indians
The present study examines patterns of infant and juvenile growth in a diachronic sample of ancestral Pueblo Indians (AD 1300–1680) from the American Southwest. An assessment of growth patterns is accompanied by an evaluation of pathological conditions often considered to be indicators of nutritional deficiencies and/or gastrointestinal infections. Growth patterns and the distribution of pathological conditions are interpreted relative to cultura…
Latitudinal variation in cranial dimorphism in Macaca fascicularis
This study examines latitudinal and insular variation in the expression of sexual dimorphism in cranial length in three geographical groupings of Macaca fascicularis . In addition, the relationship between cranial length dimorphism (CLD) and sex‐specific size is examined. The results of the study identified a significant relationship between CLD and latitude for only one of the three geographic groupings. Sex‐specific relationships between crania…
Brief communication: Sexual dimorphism of the juvenile basicranium
The purpose of this article is to examine the level of sexual dimorphism exhibited in the foramen magnum and occipital condyles of juveniles, and to test the utility of this sexual dimorphism for estimating sex. Using five basicranial measurements taken from 36 juveniles of known sex and age from the Lisbon documented collection (Portugal), we evaluated sexual dimorphism in the juvenile cranial base. Our application of a method previously applied…
Controversy and Conflict: NAGPRA and the Role of Biological Anthropology in Determining Cultural Affiliation
The primary focus of this article is to examine the concept of cultural affiliation from the perspective of biological anthropology. The concept of cultural affiliation is fundamental to federal repatriation legislation including the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Biological anthropologists are frequently called upon to assist museums and federal agencies with making determinations of cultural affiliation of human remains a…
The Meul Index: A non‐destructive method for estimating the cortical index in skeletal samples
The study of osteoporosis in past populations provides insight into the history and evolution of this condition. The Cortical Index is a relative measure of cortical bone often used for identifying individuals with age‐related bone loss associated with osteoporosis. Current methods of measuring the Cortical Index involve radiography or cutting actual sections of long bones at the mid‐shaft. We propose a new index, the Meul Index as means for esti…
Technical note: Applicability of tooth cementum annulation to an archaeological population
The use of tooth cementum annulations for age determination has been deemed promising, exhibiting high correlations with chronological age. Despite its apparent potential, to date, the tooth cementum annulations method has been used rarely for estimating ages in archaeological populations. Here we examine the readability of cementum annulations and the consistency of age estimates using a sample of 116 adults from the Iron Gates Gorge Mesolithic/…
Further analysis of the population history of ancient Egyptians
The origins of state formation in ancient Egypt have been the focus of recent research utilizing biological data to test hypotheses regarding in situ development of local groups, or large‐scale in‐migration, possibly by an invading army. The primary goal of the present research is to further test these hypotheses. Our secondary goal is to compare different distance measures and assess how they might affect interpretation of population history. We…
Estimating the probability that the sample mean is within a desired fraction of the standard deviation of the true mean
Phenotypic approaches for understanding patterns of intracemetery biological variation
This paper reviews studies of phenotypic inheritance and microevolutionary processes in archaeological populations using data on cranial and dental phenotypic variation, often referred to as paleogenetics or biodistance analysis. The estimation of biological distances between populations, or among individuals within populations, is one component of bioarchaeological research on past populations. In this overview, five approaches that focus on mor…
Postmarital residence and biological variation at Pueblo Bonito
Although the social organization of many of the present‐day pueblos of the American Southwest is well‐described in the anthropological literature, many aspects of prehistoric Puebloan social organization have received limited attention since initial investigations of postmarital residence in the 1960s and 1970s. This paper examines postmarital residence at the Chaco Canyon great house of Pueblo Bonito, using biological data. Our findings are inco…
Greater sciatic notch as a sex indicator in juveniles
Using Schutkowski's method for juvenile sex determination (Schutkowski H. 1993. Am J Phys Anthropol 90:199–205), we evaluated the morphology of the greater sciatic notch of 56 ilia (23 females and 33 males) from a documented skeletal collection housed at the Bocage Museum in Lisbon (Portugal). After applying Schutkowski's original methodology and comparing the results with previous studies, we used age‐adjusted metrical variables to describe grea…
Infant and juvenile growth in ancestral Pueblo Indians
The present study examines patterns of infant and juvenile growth in a diachronic sample of ancestral Pueblo Indians (AD 1300–1680) from the American Southwest. An assessment of growth patterns is accompanied by an evaluation of pathological conditions often considered to be indicators of nutritional deficiencies and/or gastrointestinal infections. Growth patterns and the distribution of pathological conditions are interpreted relative to cultura…
Controversy and Conflict: NAGPRA and the Role of Biological Anthropology in Determining Cultural Affiliation
The primary focus of this article is to examine the concept of cultural affiliation from the perspective of biological anthropology. The concept of cultural affiliation is fundamental to federal repatriation legislation including the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Biological anthropologists are frequently called upon to assist museums and federal agencies with making determinations of cultural affiliation of human remains a…
A Reassessment of Matrilocality in Chacoan Culture
Recent research presented in American Antiquity (66:36-46) proposed that the prehistoric Puebloan communities of Chaco Canyon in the American Southwest conformed to a matrilocal pattern of postmarital residence. The inference of matrilocality at Chaco Canyon was based on the assumption that a number of the most likely modern descendants of the Chacoans are matrilocal, including the present-day Zuni and Hopi Indians, and that the household floor a…
The Development of Population Diversity at Chaco Canyon
Despite over a century of archaeological investigation at Chaco Canyon, the population diversity of this important regional center during the Pueblo II and early Pueblo III periods (ca A.D. 890–;1140) is poorly understood. The purpose of the present research was to investigate the level of population diversity at Chaco Canyon during this time period through quantitative genetic analysis of craniometric variation, as well as to present plausible m…
Nonhuman primate hybridization and the taxonomic status of Neanderthals
The present study examines the taxonomic status of Middle Paleolithic Neanderthals by comparing their observed minimum genetic divergence from Upper Paleolithic modern humans in Europe with that observed between macaque species from Sulawesi that are known to hybridize and fully intergrade in the wild. The genetic divergence, and differentiation between Neanderthals and Upper Paleolithic modern humans, as indicated by pairwise minimum genetic dis…
Further analysis of the population history of ancient Egyptians
The origins of state formation in ancient Egypt have been the focus of recent research utilizing biological data to test hypotheses regarding in situ development of local groups, or large‐scale in‐migration, possibly by an invading army. The primary goal of the present research is to further test these hypotheses. Our secondary goal is to compare different distance measures and assess how they might affect interpretation of population history. We…
Human cranial diversity and evidence for an ancient lineage of modern humans
Estimating the probability that the sample mean is within a desired fraction of the standard deviation of the true mean
The effects of hybridization on growth allometry and craniofacial form in Sulawesi macaques
Technical note: Comparison of the maresh reference data with the who international standard for normal growth in healthy children
The Maresh reference data on stature and long bone lengths in a sample of healthy middle‐class children from Denver, Colorado [Maresh: Am J Dis Child 66 ( 1943 ) 227–257; Maresh: Am J Dis Child 89 ( 1955 ) 725–742; Maresh: Human growth and development ( 1970 ) p 155–200], have been used extensively by biological anthropologists to estimate juvenile age and body size using skeletal elements and to assess growth in skeletal series from different et…
Refiguring the Population History of the Tewa Basin
Estimates of regional population sizes in the Northern Rio Grande region (NRG) of New Mexico during the Coalition period (A.D. 1200–1350) have been used to infer large-scale immigration from the central Mesa Verde region of southwestern Colorado after A.D. 1250/1275. Here we compare the most recent population estimates for these two regions and critically examine the assertion that the Tewa language was brought to the Tewa Basin within the NRG th…
Tewa Place Names for Early Habitation Sites in the Northern Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico
Place names have the potential to aid in the investigation of regional settlement histories because they reflect the importance of specific locations in the social or cultural memories of indigenous groups. Unique place names for ancient habitation sites such as villages or hamlets, i.e., those names for which there are no cognates in other languages, suggest that those ancient villages or hamlets still retain the names given to them by their ori…
Technical note: Applicability of tooth cementum annulation to an archaeological population
The use of tooth cementum annulations for age determination has been deemed promising, exhibiting high correlations with chronological age. Despite its apparent potential, to date, the tooth cementum annulations method has been used rarely for estimating ages in archaeological populations. Here we examine the readability of cementum annulations and the consistency of age estimates using a sample of 116 adults from the Iron Gates Gorge Mesolithic/…
Craniometric variation and population history of the prehistoric Tewa
Although the population history and social organization of the prehistoric Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest have received attention in the archaeological literature, little research on this topic has been conducted by biological anthropologists. Here, we examine postmarital residence at two ancestral Tewa Indian pueblos located in north-central New Mexico using determinant ratio analysis. In addition, we examine genetic relationships amon…
The Emergence of Kwahe’e Black-on-white pottery in the Tewa Basin, New Mexico
Despite the importance of ceramic typologies for defining archaeological cultures and making chronological inferences, the ceramic types comprising these typologies are not always well dated. Here, we present an analysis of radiocarbon dates generated from Accelerator Mass Spectrometry of corn remains found in association with Kwahe’e Black-on-white (Kwahe’e B/w) ceramics from the Tewa Basin of the Northern Rio Grande region of New Mexico in the …
Brief communication: Sexual dimorphism of the juvenile basicranium
The purpose of this article is to examine the level of sexual dimorphism exhibited in the foramen magnum and occipital condyles of juveniles, and to test the utility of this sexual dimorphism for estimating sex. Using five basicranial measurements taken from 36 juveniles of known sex and age from the Lisbon documented collection (Portugal), we evaluated sexual dimorphism in the juvenile cranial base. Our application of a method previously applied…
Making connections: Ostrich eggshell beads as indicators of precolonial societal interaction in southeastern southern Africa
Ostriches are peculiar birds and their strangeness has been recognised by southern African hunter-gatherers through multiple symbolic associations. Such qualities are likely to have been enhanced where people had access to beads made from their eggshell but did not have direct knowledge of the birds themselves. Southeastern southern Africa, encompassing the Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains, the eastern half of the Eastern Cape Province and much of Kw…
Estimating the population variance, standard deviation, and coefficient of variation: Sample size and accuracy
Analysis of Ceramic Compositional Data from Late Developmental Period Sites in the Tewa Basin, New Mexico
The presence of Cibola white ware ceramic types at Late Developmental period sites in the Northern Rio Grande (NRG) region of New Mexico has been interpreted as a strong indicator of cultural interaction with, or immigration from, communities associated with the Chaco regional system in the American Southwest. We report the results of an analysis of chemical composition data obtained from neutron activation analysis (NAA) of pottery sherds origin…
Mitogenomics of macaques (Macaca) across Wallace's Line in the context of modern human dispersals
Wallace's Line demarcates a biogeographical boundary between the Indomalaya and Australasian ecoregions. Most placental mammalian genera, for example, occur to the west of this line, whereas most marsupial genera occur to the east. However, macaque monkeys are unusual because they naturally occur on both western and eastern sides. To further explore this anomalous distribution, we analyzed 222 mitochondrial genomes from ∼20 macaque species, inclu…
Body mass as a confounding variable when predicting group size from orbit diameter and neocortex ratio
Detection of antibodies to selected human pathogens among wild and pet macaques ( Macaca tonkeana ) in Sulawesi, Indonesia
Human‐to‐primate disease transmission can potentially cause significant morbidity and mortality among wild primate populations and thus constitutes an important conservation issue. Our cross‐sectional study examines serological evidence of exposure to human pathogens among wild and pet macaques in Sulawesi. Serum samples taken from 11 pet and 15 wild macaques ( Macaca tonkeana ) were analyzed for antibodies to a panel of viruses commonly encounte…
Field methodology for lateral cranial radiography of nonhuman primates
The historical lack of field-based radiographic studies of nonhuman primates within the field of anthropology is likely due to the perceived difficulty of transporting and operating X-ray equipment. Here we present a method for taking lateral cranial radiographs of nonhuman primates in the field that is simple to employ, and that produces exposed films suitable for collection of measurement data useful for growth and development studies, as well …
Field methodology for lateral cranial radiography of nonhuman primates
The historical lack of field‐based radiographic studies of nonhuman primates within the field of anthropology is likely due to the perceived difficulty of transporting and operating X‐ray equipment. Here we present a method for taking lateral cranial radiographs of nonhuman primates in the field that is simple to employ, and that produces exposed films suitable for collection of measurement data useful for growth and development studies, as well …
Nonhuman primate hybridization and the taxonomic status of Neanderthals
The present study examines the taxonomic status of Middle Paleolithic Neanderthals by comparing their observed minimum genetic divergence from Upper Paleolithic modern humans in Europe with that observed between macaque species from Sulawesi that are known to hybridize and fully intergrade in the wild. The genetic divergence, and differentiation between Neanderthals and Upper Paleolithic modern humans, as indicated by pairwise minimum genetic dis…
A Reassessment of Matrilocality in Chacoan Culture
Recent research presented in American Antiquity (66:36-46) proposed that the prehistoric Puebloan communities of Chaco Canyon in the American Southwest conformed to a matrilocal pattern of postmarital residence. The inference of matrilocality at Chaco Canyon was based on the assumption that a number of the most likely modern descendants of the Chacoans are matrilocal, including the present-day Zuni and Hopi Indians, and that the household floor a…
Postmarital residence and biological variation at Pueblo Bonito
Although the social organization of many of the present‐day pueblos of the American Southwest is well‐described in the anthropological literature, many aspects of prehistoric Puebloan social organization have received limited attention since initial investigations of postmarital residence in the 1960s and 1970s. This paper examines postmarital residence at the Chaco Canyon great house of Pueblo Bonito, using biological data. Our findings are inco…
A Guide to Careers in Physical Anthropology . Alan S. Ryan
The Development of Population Diversity at Chaco Canyon
Despite over a century of archaeological investigation at Chaco Canyon, the population diversity of this important regional center during the Pueblo II and early Pueblo III periods (ca A.D. 890–;1140) is poorly understood. The purpose of the present research was to investigate the level of population diversity at Chaco Canyon during this time period through quantitative genetic analysis of craniometric variation, as well as to present plausible m…
Prevalence of enteric parasites in pet macaques in Sulawesi, Indonesia
On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, nonhuman primate pets come into frequent contact with humans, presenting the possibility of zoonotic and anthropozoonotic disease transmission. We collected fecal samples from 88 pet macaques representing six of the seven macaque species currently recognized as endemic to Sulawesi ( Macaca nigra, M. nigrescens, M. hecki, M. tonkeana, M. maura , and M. ochreata ) as well as two non‐endemic species ( M. fascicu…
Craniometric variation and population history of the prehistoric Tewa
Although the population history and social organization of the prehistoric Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest have received attention in the archaeological literature, little research on this topic has been conducted by biological anthropologists. Here, we examine postmarital residence at two ancestral Tewa Indian pueblos located in north-central New Mexico using determinant ratio analysis. In addition, we examine genetic relationships amon…
The effects of hybridization on growth allometry and craniofacial form in Sulawesi macaques
Considering human–primate transmission of measles virus through the prism of risk analysis
Measles is a respiratory virus that is endemic to humans. Human–nonhuman primate (NHP) transmission of the measles virus has been shown to cause significant morbidity and mortality in NHP populations. We investigated serological evidence of exposure to measles virus in two free‐ranging populations of macaques at the Bukit Timah (BTNR) and Central Catchment Nature (CCNR) reserves in Singapore and the Swoyambhu Temple in Katmandu, Nepal. At BTNR/CC…
Risk assessment: A model for predicting cross‐species transmission of simian foamy virus from macaques ( M. fascicularis ) to humans at a monkey temple in Bali, Indonesia
Contact between humans and nonhuman primates (NHPs) frequently occurs at monkey temples (religious sites that have become associated with free‐ranging populations of NHPs) in Asia, creating the potential for NHP–human disease transmission. In March 2003 a multidisciplinary panel of experts participated in a workshop designed to model the risk of NHP–human pathogen transmission. The panel developed a risk assessment model to describe the likelihoo…
Phenotypic approaches for understanding patterns of intracemetery biological variation
This paper reviews studies of phenotypic inheritance and microevolutionary processes in archaeological populations using data on cranial and dental phenotypic variation, often referred to as paleogenetics or biodistance analysis. The estimation of biological distances between populations, or among individuals within populations, is one component of bioarchaeological research on past populations. In this overview, five approaches that focus on mor…
Greater sciatic notch as a sex indicator in juveniles
Using Schutkowski's method for juvenile sex determination (Schutkowski H. 1993. Am J Phys Anthropol 90:199–205), we evaluated the morphology of the greater sciatic notch of 56 ilia (23 females and 33 males) from a documented skeletal collection housed at the Bocage Museum in Lisbon (Portugal). After applying Schutkowski's original methodology and comparing the results with previous studies, we used age‐adjusted metrical variables to describe grea…
Human cranial diversity and evidence for an ancient lineage of modern humans
The Meul Index: A non‐destructive method for estimating the cortical index in skeletal samples
The study of osteoporosis in past populations provides insight into the history and evolution of this condition. The Cortical Index is a relative measure of cortical bone often used for identifying individuals with age‐related bone loss associated with osteoporosis. Current methods of measuring the Cortical Index involve radiography or cutting actual sections of long bones at the mid‐shaft. We propose a new index, the Meul Index as means for esti…
Technical note: Applicability of tooth cementum annulation to an archaeological population
The use of tooth cementum annulations for age determination has been deemed promising, exhibiting high correlations with chronological age. Despite its apparent potential, to date, the tooth cementum annulations method has been used rarely for estimating ages in archaeological populations. Here we examine the readability of cementum annulations and the consistency of age estimates using a sample of 116 adults from the Iron Gates Gorge Mesolithic/…
Further analysis of the population history of ancient Egyptians
The origins of state formation in ancient Egypt have been the focus of recent research utilizing biological data to test hypotheses regarding in situ development of local groups, or large‐scale in‐migration, possibly by an invading army. The primary goal of the present research is to further test these hypotheses. Our secondary goal is to compare different distance measures and assess how they might affect interpretation of population history. We…
Estimating the probability that the sample mean is within a desired fraction of the standard deviation of the true mean
Latitudinal variation in cranial dimorphism in Macaca fascicularis
This study examines latitudinal and insular variation in the expression of sexual dimorphism in cranial length in three geographical groupings of Macaca fascicularis . In addition, the relationship between cranial length dimorphism (CLD) and sex‐specific size is examined. The results of the study identified a significant relationship between CLD and latitude for only one of the three geographic groupings. Sex‐specific relationships between crania…
Brief communication: Sexual dimorphism of the juvenile basicranium
The purpose of this article is to examine the level of sexual dimorphism exhibited in the foramen magnum and occipital condyles of juveniles, and to test the utility of this sexual dimorphism for estimating sex. Using five basicranial measurements taken from 36 juveniles of known sex and age from the Lisbon documented collection (Portugal), we evaluated sexual dimorphism in the juvenile cranial base. Our application of a method previously applied…
Controversy and Conflict: NAGPRA and the Role of Biological Anthropology in Determining Cultural Affiliation
The primary focus of this article is to examine the concept of cultural affiliation from the perspective of biological anthropology. The concept of cultural affiliation is fundamental to federal repatriation legislation including the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Biological anthropologists are frequently called upon to assist museums and federal agencies with making determinations of cultural affiliation of human remains a…
Lead levels in long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) hair from Singapore
Infant and juvenile growth in ancestral Pueblo Indians
The present study examines patterns of infant and juvenile growth in a diachronic sample of ancestral Pueblo Indians (AD 1300–1680) from the American Southwest. An assessment of growth patterns is accompanied by an evaluation of pathological conditions often considered to be indicators of nutritional deficiencies and/or gastrointestinal infections. Growth patterns and the distribution of pathological conditions are interpreted relative to cultura…
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