Geometric morphometrics (GM) has increasingly become an important tool in assessing and
studying shape variation in a wide variety of taxa. While the GM toolkit has unparalleled …

The goal of ecomorphology is to identify morphological variation that is related to ecology
(eg, dietary preference or locomotor habits), with the aim of inferring ecological traits from …

Geometric morphometric methods (GMM), which were developed to characterize the shape
and size of biological organisms, have been applied within zooarchaeology over the past …

For centuries, reindeer herding has been an integral part of the subsistence and culture
among the Sámi of northern Fennoscandia. Despite the importance of this husbandry in their …

Many qualitative and quantitative methods for the separation of sheep and goat bones are
based upon Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and European specimens. However, these …

Cervids, and especially the red deer Cervus elaphus, are among the most regularly and
abundantly recorded ungulates in Pleistocene/Paleolithic bone assemblages. Numerous …

The huemul (Hippocamelus bisulcus) is endangered, with 1500 deer split into> 100
subpopulations along 2000 km of the Andes. Currently occupied areas are claimed …

Abstract The Early Pleistocene of Eurasia is marked by significant climatic, environmental,
and faunal shifts and is the time during which Homo first appears in the Eurasian fossil …

The early Pleistocene is represented by a succession of glacial–interglacial cycles
characterized by a general tendency towards global cooling, with increasing aridity and …

Tetrapod limbs have been used as a model system to investigate how selective pressures
and constraints shape morphological evolution. Anurans have had many independent …