Principal‐components analysis of prehistoric South Asian crania

Kenneth A.R. Kennedy; John Chiment; Todd Disotell; David Meyers

doi:10.1002/ajpa.1330640203

Principal‐components analysis of prehistoric South Asian crania

Kenneth A.R. Kennedy, John Chiment, Todd Disotell, David Meyers

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Abstract

Principal‐components analysis is used as an investigative procedure for establishing temporal, spatial and evolutionary‐developmental changes in Homo sapiens skeletal specimens from prehistoric sites in South Asia. It is concluded that cranial variables which cluster hunter‐gatherers within the sample are related to facial architecture with respect to robusticity and size. Older models presumably reflecting genetic affinities and racial classifications of prehistoric South Asians which were based upon univariatebivariate statistical analyses are not supported by the results of this principal‐components analysis.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	105-118
Number of pages	14
Journal	American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Volume	64
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1330640203
State	Published - Jun 1984

Keywords

Agriculturalists
Hunter‐gatherers
Prehistoric crania
Principal‐components analysis
South Asia

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Anatomy
Anthropology

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