The peopling of the New World has been the focus of anthropological attention since the last
century. Proponents of multiple migration models have claimed that patterns of variation …

CG Turner II made dental morphological observations on thousands of Eskimo-Aleuts and
American Indians and concluded they were derived from ancestral populations in northeast …

This study examines the population structure of Classic period (AD 250–900) Maya
populations through analysis of odontometric variation of 827 skeletons from 12 …

We present a method for estimating the Mahalanobis distance between two multivariate
normal populations when a subset of the measurements is observed as ordered categorical …

Human skeletal remains of the first Americans are scarce, especially in North America. In
South America the situation is less dramatic. Two important archaeological regions have …

Human morphological variation has been described in previous research as reflecting and
responding to environmental factors. Among Europeans and Africans, cranial and …

We present the results of comparative multivariate morphological analyses based on nine
skulls from Cerca Grande. The site is in the Lagoa Santa karst in Central Brazil, a key area …

This paper presents the first bioarchaeological study of Islamic diet and lifeways in medieval
Portugal. Stable isotopes of δ 13 C and δ 15 N and osteological and paleopathological …

In this paper, the dental morphology of prehispanic Mesoamerican populations is described,
compared, and examined within the context of New World dental variation. Twenty‐eight …

Dental morphology provides important information on human evolution and interpopulation
relationships. Dental wear is one of the major limitations of morphological data analysis …