COMPARISON OF CRANIAL METRIC AND NON-METRIC TRAITS IN THE DETERMINING OF BIOLOGICAL DISTANCE: AN EXAMPLE OF ANATOLIA
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Tarih
2011
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Tuba-Turkish Acad Sciences
Erişim Hakkı
info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Özet
Biological distance, representing the determination of differences between populations relying on features controlled in most cases by more than one gene, is determined for populations having lived in the past by using anthroposcopic [non-metric] and anthropometric [metric] traits developing in dependence on both environmental and genetic factors. This study on the skulls of 344 male skeletons belonging to twelve Anatolian populations which lived during various periods and in various places, dating from the Early Bronze Age to the first quarter of the twentieth century, and stored in Hacettepe University's Biological Anthropology Laboratory, was conducted using 20 metric and 28 non-metric traits with the aim of comparing of these two variables in studies of biological distance in Anatolian populations and determining the biological relationship between these populations. In order to determine biological distances from metric variables, Mahalanobis's Generalized Distance (D-2) was used. In order to determine biological distances from non-metric traits, MMD statistics were used. Utilizing the SHAN cluster method in the NT-SYS packet program, fenograms were created for the distance matrices belonging to both variables found in dual comparisons of Anatolian populations. Fenograms created from D-2 matrix calculated from metric variables and fenograms created from MMD matrix calculated from trait variables produced relatively similar results. In addition, in this study both chronologic and geographic distance were shown to be better reflected in non-metric traits than in metric traits. Results produced from these variables were determined to be more in accord with archaeologic and historical data than results from metric variables. This study has shown that, contrary to studies in the biological anthropology literature claiming that non-metric traits are insufficient in studies of biological distance in comparison with metric variables, these traits can accurately reflect relationships between populations. However, it is thought that especially in studies of biological distance, by keeping the sample size sufficient and and approximately equal, using both variables together will produce more sound results.
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Non-metric trait, metric trait, biyological distance, Anatolia
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Tuba-Ar-Turkish Academy of Sciences Journal of Archaeology
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14
