Biological Homogeneity and Familial Segregation in the Iron Age Population of Alfedena (Abruzzo, Italy), Based on Cranial Discrete Traits Analysis

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 454-462

  Rubini, Mauro ^a  

^a Soprintendenza Archeologica il L   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cranial skeleton; Discrete traits; Iron age

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008207621     PISSN: 1047482X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1212(199612)6:5<454::AID-OA295>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Longacre, W. A. Archaeology as anthropology: a case study. Science, 1964; 144: 1454-1455.
2. Lane, R. A. and Sublett, A. J. Osteology of social organization: residence pattern. American Antiquities, 1972; 37: 186-201.
3. Spence, M. W. Residential practices and the distribution of skeletal traits in Teotihuacan, Mexico. Man, 1974; 9: 262-273.
4. Owsley, D. W. and Jantz, R. L. Intracemetery morphological variation in Ankara crania from the Sully site (39SL4), Sully County, South Dakota. Plains Anthropology, 1978; 23: 139-147.
5. Strouhal, E. and Jungwirth, J. Paleogenetics of the late Roman early Byzantine cemeteries at Sayala, Egyptian Nubia. Journal of Human Evolution, 1979; 8: 699-703.
6. Bartel, B. Collective burial and social organization: a multivariate analysis of human population from early Bronze Age western Turkey. Journal of Mediterranean Anthropology, 1980; 1: 3-21.
7. Sjøvold, T. A. method for familial studies based on minor skeletal variant. Ossa, 1976-77; 3/4: 97-107.
8. Sjøvold, T. Non metrical divergence between skeletal populations. Ossa, 1977; 4:1-133.
9. Mariani, L. Aufidena. Ricerche archeologiche e storiche nel Sannio Settentrionale. Atti dell-Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1901; 226-638.
10. Parise Badoni, F. and Ruggeri Giove, M. Alfedena. La Necropoli di Campo Consolino. Chieti: Soprintendenza Archeologica dell'Abruzzo, 1980.
11. Bedini, A., Bergonzo, G., Delpino Fugazzola, M. A., Parise Badoni, F., Piana Agostinetti, P. and Von Eles, P. Alfedena (L'Aquila). Scavi del 1974 della Necropoli. Atti dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1975; 24: 409-481.
12. Parise Badoni, F., Ruggeri Giove, M., Brambilla, C. and Gheradini, P. Necropoli di Alfedena (scavi 1974-1979): proposta di una cronologia relativa. Annali Seminario Studi Mondo Classico, 1982; 4: 1-41.
13. Coppa, A., Macchiarelli, R. and Salvadei, L. Craniologia della popolazione dell'Età del Ferro di Alfedena (Abruzzo Area medio-adriatica). Rivista di Antropologia, 1980-81; LXI: 275-290.
14. Cresta, M. and Vecchi, F. Caratteri metrici e morfologici in tre gruppi di crani di antiche popolazioni dell'Italia. Rivista di Antropologia, 1969; 56: 187-198.
15. Macchiarelli, R. and Salvadei, L. Lo scheletro post-craniale negli inumati della communità dell'Età del Ferro di Alfedena (L'Aquila): morfologia, variabilità dimensionale e grado di dimorfismo sessuale. Rivista di Antropologia, 1988; LXVI: 37-55
16. Coppa, A. and Macchiarelli, R. The maxillary dentition of the Iron Age population of Alfedena (Middle-Adriatic area, Italy). Journal of Human Evolution, 1982; 11: 219-235.
17. Macchiarelli, R. and Salvadei, L. Occlusal surface form, directions and degree of maxillary dental wear in the protohistorical community of Alfedena (Italy VI-V century BC) Antropologia contemporanea, 1984; 7: 139 (abstract).
18. Macchiarelli, R. and Salvadei, L. Dental wear and extra-masticatory anterior function in the Iron Age and Alfedena community (Abruzzo, Italy). Antropologia Contemporanea, 1985; 8: 132-141.
19. Macchiarelli, R., Salvadei, L. and Catalano, P. La stima della fecondità durante l'età del ferro nell'Italia centrale. Documentazione scheletrica dalle necropoli di Castiglione (Lazio), Alfedena e Sulmona (Abruzzo). Antropologia Contemporanea, 1985; 8: 115-124.
20. Macchiarelli, R. and Salvadei L. Insiemi di mortalità e realisticità delle stime paleodemografiche per l'età del ferro dell'ltalia centro-meridionale. Bollettino di Paletnologia, 1994; 85: 1-19.
21. Macchiarelli, R., Salvadei, L. and Catalano, P. Hip bone alterations due to pregnancy and child-birth in skeletal populations during the various phases of the Italian Iron Age. Antropologia Contemporanea, 1984; 7: 140.
22. Bondioli, L., Corruccini, R. S. and Macchiarelli, R. Familial segregation in the Iron Age community of Alfedena, Abruzzo, Lazio, based on osteodental trait analysis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1986; 71: 393-400.
23. Capasso, L. Familiar relationship reconstruction in the burials 'circles' of the Alfedena necropolis (Iron Age: L'Aquila, Italy) using the morbidity and topographic distribution of non-malignant osseous neoplasm. Ossa, 1985-86; 12:3-7.
24. Sergi, G. Crani umani dalle antiche tombe di Alfedena. Atti Società Romana di Antropologia, 1900-1901; 7: 41-43.
25. Rubini, M. La popolazione dell'età del ferro di Alfedena. 1983; PhD dissertation, University of Rome.
26. Saunders, S. R. Nonmetric skeletal variation. In: Reconstruction of Life from the Skeleton (edited by M. Y. Iscan and K. A. R. Kennedy). 1989: 95-108.
27. Ossenberg, N. Discontinuous morphological variation in the human cranium. PhD dissertation, University of Toronto.
28. Sjøvold, T. A report on the heritability of some cranial measurements and non-metric traits. In: Multivariate Statistical Methods in Physical Anthropology (edited by Van Vark G. N. and W. W. Owells). Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1984: 223-246.
29. Konigsberg, L. W., Khon, L. A. P. and Cheverud, J. M. Cranial deformation and nonmetric trait variation. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1993; 90: 35-48.
30. Konigsberg, L. W., Kohn, L. A. P., Leigh, S. R. and Cheverud, J. M. Cranial modification, non-metric traits, and biological distance. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1991; 12: 107 (abstract).
31. Rubini, M., Andreini, L. and Coppa, A. Cli inumati della grotta Vittorio Vecchi di Monte Fulcino (Sezze, Latina; media Età del Bronzo, XVII-XIV sec.a.C). Rivista di Antropologia, 1990, LXVIII: 141-163.
32. Stini, W. A. Adaptive strategies of populations under nutritional stress. In: Watt E. S. (ed.): Biosocial Interaction in Population Adaptation (edited by E. S. Watt). Mouton, The Hague. 1975: 19-41.
33. Berry, A. C. and Berry, R. J. Epigenetic variation in the human cranium. Journal of Anatomy, 1967; 101: 36-379.
34. Axelsson, G. and Hedegaard, B. Torus palatinus in Icelandic schoolchildren. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1985; 67: 105-112.
35. Hauser, G. and De Stefano, G. Epigenetic Variants of the Human Skull. Stoccarda: Schwizerbartsche Verlagsbuchandlung, 1989.
36. Rubini, M. and Andreini, L. New considerations on the phenotypical expression variability of some discontinuous traits of the cranial skeleton in a Neolithic series from Central-Southern Italy. Rivista di Antropologia, 1990; LXVIII: 253-267.
37. Molto, J. E. The assessment and meaning of intraobserver error in populations studies based on discontinuous cranial traits. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1979; 51: 333-344.
38. De Stefano, G. F., Hauser, G., Guidotti, A., Rossi, V., Gualdi Russo, E. and Brasili Gualandi, P. Reflections on intraobserver differences in scoring nonmetric cranial traits. Journal of Human Evolution, 1984; 13: 349-555.
39. Green, R. F. and Suchey, J. M. The use of inverse sine transformations in the analysis of nonmetric cranial data. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1976; 45: 61-68.
40. Sofaer, J. A., Smith, P. and Kaye, E. Affinities between contemporary and skeletal Jewish and non-Jewish groups based on tooth morphology. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1986; 70: 265-275.
41. Sjøvold, T. The occurrence of minor, non-metrical variants in the skeleton and their quantitative treatment for population comparisons. Homo, 1973; 24: 204-233.
42. Johnson, A. L. and Lovell, N. C. Biological differentiation at predynastic Naqada, Egypt: an analysis of dental morphological traits. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1994; 93: 427-433.
43. Willemsen, E. Understanding Statistical Reasoning. W. H. Freeman and Company. 1974, Cambridge Press, London.
44. Vallois, H. V. Vital statistics in Prehistoric populations as determined from archaeological data. In: The Application of Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (edited by R. F. Heizer and S. F. Cook). Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1960; 186-200.
45. Cavalli-Sforza, L. Statistica per Medici e Biologi. Firenze: Boringhieri, 1981.
46. Cadien, J. D., Harris, E. F., Jones, W. P. and Mandarino, L. J. Biological lineages, skeletal populations, and microevolution. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 1974; 18: 194-201.