3D Data Acquisition for Bioarchaeology, Forensic Anthropology, and Archaeology

by Noriko Seguchi, Beatrix Dudzik

Overview

3D Data Acquisition for Bioarchaeology, Forensic Anthropology, and Archaeology serves as a handbook for the collection and processing of 3-D scanned data and as a tool for scholars interested in pursuing research projects with 3-D models. The book's chapters enhance the reader’s understanding of the technology by covering virtual model processing protocols, alignment methods, actual data acquisition techniques, basic technological protocols, and considerations of variation in research design associated with biological anthropology and archaeology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128153093
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	06/15/2019
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	5.94(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Seguchi is Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology in the Department of Environmental Changes, Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies at Kyushu University, Japan. Her areas of research interest include craniofacial morphometrics, postcranial variation, human adaptation, population history and structure, and the peopling of the New World. Dr. Seguchi is currently a visiting professor at the University of Montana.

PhD, Biological Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, MA, Biological Anthropology, University of Montana, BA, Honors Biological Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Digital model sampledScanning and processing protocol 3. Three-dimensional investigations of fragile archaeological human remains 4. Landmark and semilandmark data collection using digitizers and data processing 5. Landmark and semilandmark data collection using 3D virtual model and data processin 6. Validity assessment: validity testing of mixed data by multiple devices, methods, and observers 7. 3D data analysis using R 8. Considerations in the application of 3DGM to stone artifacts with a focus on orientation error in bifaces 9. Conclusions

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A best-practices guide in data acquisition methods for recording data on archaeological human remains