J 2021

Sagittal suture morphological variation in human archaeological populations

CHERONET, Olivia; Abigail ASH; Alexandra ANDERS; János DANI; László DOMBORÓCZKI et al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Sagittal suture morphological variation in human archaeological populations

Autoři

CHERONET, Olivia; Abigail ASH; Alexandra ANDERS; János DANI; László DOMBORÓCZKI; Eva DROZDOVÁ; Michael FRANCKEN; Marija JOVANOVIC; Lidija MILASINOVIC; Ildiko PAP; Pál RACZKY; Maria TESCHLER-NICOLA; Zdeněk TVRDÝ; Joachim WAHL; Gunita ZARINA a Ron PINHASI

Vydání

The Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology, Wiley, 2021, 1932-8486

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10700 1.7 Other natural sciences

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 2.227

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14310/21:00123633

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

EID Scopus

Klíčová slova anglicky

archaeology; morphology; quantification; sagittal suture

Štítky

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 11. 1. 2022 10:42, Mgr. Marie Novosadová Šípková, DiS.

Anotace

V originále

Cranial sutures join the many bones of the skull. They are therefore points of weakness and consequently subjected to the many mechanical stresses affecting the cranium. However, the way in which this impacts their morphological complexity remains unclear. We examine the intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms of human sagittal sutures by quantifying the morphology from 107 individuals from archaeological populations spanning the Mesolithic to Middle ages, using standardized two-dimensional photographs. Results show that the most important factor determining sutural complexity appears to be the position along the cranial vault from the junction with the coronal suture at its anterior-most point to the junction with the lambdoid suture at its posterior-most point. Conversely, factors such as age and lifeways show few trends in complexity, the most significant of which is a lower complexity in the sutures of Mesolithic individuals who consumed a tougher diet. The simple technique used in this study therefore allowed us to identify that, taken together, structural aspects play a more important role in defining the complexity of the human sagittal suture than extrinsic factors such as the mechanical forces imposed on the cranium by individuals' diet.