Obtaining new resolutions in carnivore tooth pit morphological analyses: A methodological update for digital taphonomy.

ABSTRACT: Modern day investigation in fields of archaeology and palaeontology can be greatly characterised by an exponential growth of integrated new technologies, nevertheless, while these advances are of great significance to multiple lines of research, their evaluation and update over time is equally as important. Here we present an application of inter and intra-observer analysis in taphonomy based geometric morphometrics, employing robust non-parametric statistical analyses for the study of experimental carnivore tooth pit morphologies. To fully understand the influence of measurement errors in the collection of this data, our statistical assessment was performed on fully superimposed, partially superimposed and raw landmark coordinates collected from 3D surface scanning. Experimental samples u

SUBMITTER: Courtenay LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7544140 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature