This study sets out to consider the influence of geographical scale on the association between molecular genetic differentiation and craniometric phenotypic differentiation in recent human populations.
The structure of cranial morphological variance in Asia: Implications for the study of modern human dispersion across the planet (Chapter 7)
The study of past human dispersion is a central topic to understand how humans occupied the planet.
Statistical methods for kinship inference amongst ancient individuals (Chapter 6)
The identification of close relatives is central to forensic sciences and to genetic association studies, in which spurious signals can be obtained if genetic structure is not taken into account.
Genetic demography: What does it mean and how to interpret it, with a case study on the Neolithic transition (Chapter 5)
The present work describes the basic principles underlying demographic reconstructions from genetic data, and reviews the studies using such methods with respect to the Neolithic Demographic Transition.
High level connections as a key component for the rapid dispersion of the Neolithic in Europe (Chapter 4)
The transition to farming represents the process by which humans switched from hunting and gathering wild resources to a reliance on domesticated plants and animals.
Profile orientation change through time in Upper Paleolithic parietal art (Chapter 3)
Art traditions reflect beliefs, practices, customs and unconscious values. If it is relatively easy to study these features in historic art traditions, the same is not true for prehistoric times.
Direct U-series dating of the Apidima C human remains (Chapter 2)
The site of Apidima, in southern Greece, is one of the most important Paleolithic sites in Greece and southeast Europe. One of the caves belonging to this cave complex, Cave A, has yielded human fossil crania Apidima 1 and 2, showing the presence of an early Homo sapiens population followed by a Neanderthal one in the Middle Pleistocene.
Crown outline analysis of the hominin upper third molar from the Megalopolis Basin, Peloponnese, Greece (Chapter 1)
The left upper third molar from the Megalopolis Basin is enigmatic due to its problematic preservation and context. The Megalopolis molar is the only possible human fossil known to date from the Megalopolis Basin.