Godinho, Ricardo Miguel, O'Higgins, Paul orcid.org/0000-0002-9797-0809 and Gonçalves, Célia (2020) Assessing the reliability of virtual reconstruction of mandibles. American journal of physical anthropology. e24095. ISSN 1096-8644
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Mandibular morphological variation is often used to examine various aspects of human palaeobiology. However, fossil and archeological skeletal remains are often fragmented/distorted and so are frequently excluded from studies. This leads to decreased sample sizes and, potentially, to biased results. Thus, it is of interest to restore the original anatomy of incomplete/distorted specimens. Thin plate splines (TPS), commonly used in Geometric Morphometrics (GM), offer the prospect of reconstruction of missing parts and particularly of interest here, missing landmarks. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Here, the reliability of TPS based mandibular reconstruction is tested. To that end missing landmarks were simulated in originally complete hemimandibles. TPS was then used to restore the location of simulated missing data and the predicted landmarks were compared to the original ones. RESULTS: Results show that error varies according to the number and location of estimated landmarks. Notwithstanding, estimation error is usually considerably smaller than the morphological differences between individuals from the same species. DISCUSSION: TPS based reconstruction allows fragmentary mandibles to be used in studies of whole mandibular variation, provided the above mentioned caveats are considered.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
Keywords: | archeology,bioanthropology,geometric Morphometrics,palaeoanthropology,thin plate spline |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Hull York Medical School (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 30 Jun 2020 15:30 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 16:43 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24095 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/ajpa.24095 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:162653 |
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