-------- Original Message -------- Subject: FW: [ZOOARCH] Call for session ICAZ 2010 Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 02:41:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Sean Denham <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> Hello morphometricians, The announcement below may be of interest. Sean ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 16:54:54 +0100 From: [email protected] Subject: [ZOOARCH] Call for session ICAZ 2010 To: [email protected] Dear Zooarchers, This message is to survey interest in a session entitled “Geometric Morphometrics in Zooarchaeology” (details below) for the 2010 International Council for Archaeozoology meeting in Paris, France (August 23-28th). I apologise for the short notice but if you are interested in attending or presenting a communication (a title would be warmly appreciated) please let me know by April 20th so that a formal session proposal can be submitted before the deadline: April 30th. Thomas Cucchi [email protected] Natural History Museum of Paris/CNRS, UMR 7209 “Archéozoologie et Archéobotanie”, France. Geometric Morphometrics in Zooarchaeology: applications and perspectives Morphometrics, which study variations and changes in the form (size and shape) of an organism or an object, is one of the main techniques used in zooarchaeology to extract biological information from animal remains. Morphometric technics in Zooarchaeology have mainly relied on combined uni/multivariate statistics and quantitative morphology based on linear measurements. Although useful, traditional morphometrics face several limitations (size correction, absence of homology in the linear distance, difficulty to capture geometry of complex shape, absence of graphical representation of shape changes) and prevent the addressing of old research questions and therefore the meeting of new challenges in bioarchaeology. The so called “revolution” of Geometric Morphometrics in Biological science and Physical Anthropology during the 90’s has now addressed these issues by providing a new statistical theory to not only capture and retain the geometry of an object throughout the analyses but also to allow the visualization of its changes. These advances provide an opportunity to see if i) this revolution has helped Zooarchaeology to reach new insights in old questions ii) to evidence the limits of its application on animal remains and iii) to identify the new directions in the field of zooarchaeology. This session will therefore welcome any contributions on the broad topics below or on any specific ones they may be interested in exploring. The objective is to get researchers together in order to investigate possibilities and limitations of GM applications to tackle complex biological questions with osteoarchaeological remains and therefore widen the fields of investigation in Zooarchaeology. • Biogeography • Ecomorphology and Phylogeny • Taxonomy and morphospecies • Domestication • Sexual Dimorphism • Ontogeny • Asymmetry • Function and development Please forward this announcement to any relevant list or person whom you think might be interested. Many thanks for your help and looking forward to hearing from you -- Replies will be sent to the list. For more information visit http://www.morphometrics.org
