Abstract

D’ANGELO DEL CAMPO, Manuel Domingo; GONZALEZ MARTIN, Armando  and  GUICHON, Ricardo Aníbal. Morphological studies in human skeletal remains from Southern Patagonia: from classic morphology to geometric morphometry. Rev Arg Antrop Biol [online]. 2023, vol.25, n.2, e064.  Epub June 01, 2023. ISSN 1514-7991.  http://dx.doi.org/10.24215/18536387e064.

At the end of the 18th century, but mainly during the 19th and 20th centuries, the first craniometric studies were carried out on the populations that inhabited Southern Patagonia (SP). Those first approaches were typological analyses, a trend that, from the 1980s onwards, gave way to a perspective focused on multivariate statistics and evolutionary synthesis. In order to address how the discipline has changed over time, a diagnosis was made of the information found in 75 morphometric publications, from 1937 to 2020. In the last decades, there has been an exponential increase in publications in SP focusing mainly in skull study, with a preponderance of the geometric approach over the last decade. However, the treatment of primary and secondary metadata is deficient; for example, the terms used to define provenance are often vague and imprecise, knowledge about the disposition of skeletal remains is scarce, and the information provided about dating is often insufficient or diffuse. Deficiencies in data and metadata reporting result in difficulties in replicability and verifiability, creating redundancies, low efficiency and leading to a poor management of research funds. We hope the use of bibliographic and morphometric databases, as well as periodic diagnostic reviews such as this one, will help the bioanthropological community begin to report relevant information related to the individuals analyzed in their publications. Rev Arg Antrop Biol 25 (2), 2023. https://doi.org/10.24215/18536387e064

Keywords : bibliographic diagnosis; modern synthesis; morphometry; typological analysis.

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