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News from Freiburg Anthropology
last updated on 14 May 2012
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New Link to the Ford Collection
The University of Michigan's Museum of Anthropology presents crania from a 19th-century collection in an online data base. The specimen display features of scientific interest. The site is now listed on our list of related weblinks.
<26 April 2012>
Researchers from Freiburg at the AAPA Meeting in Portland
The American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA) has announced the programme for its 81st annual meeting, taking place at Portland (Oregon, USA) from 9 to 14 April 2012 (cf. our list of upcoming events. Freiburg Anthropology will be represented by our Geometric Morphometrics workgroup, with the following contributions:
Shape Analysis of the Palpebral Fissure in Humans
Alexandra Rüdell
Sliding Semi-landmarks on Symmetric Structures in Three Dimensions
Stefan Schlager
Both posters will be presented in session 30, on SAT 14 April 2012, 8am to 4pm. You can download the meeting programme - including all abstracts - from the website of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
<19 March 2012>
New Link to Osteoware
Our list of related web links now has a new section, entitled "tools". It features the newly released 'Osteoware' data base for documenting human skeletal remains.
<18 Jan. 2012>
Project website "Traces of Armed Conflict" redesigned
After conceptual changes during the past months and the presentation at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Montreal, the website for the project "Traces of Armed Conflict" has been reformulated. The project is Felix Engel's dissertation work.
<21. December 2011>
Freiburg Contributes to Exhibition on Cultural History of Head and Skull
From 2 October 2011 to 29 April 2012 the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums in Mannheim present an exhibition on Head and Skull in Cultural History. Ursula Wittwer-Backofen is among the scientific advisors, and researchers of Freiburg Anthropology have developed parts of what is on display. An interdisciplinary symposium from 27 to 30 October will accompany the exhibiton (the language at this event will be German).
<18 October 2011>
Alexander Ecker Collection
The archives of Freiburg University hold one of the important collections of human remains from the 19th century, accumulated by Alexander Ecker and his successors. Researchers of Freiburg Anthropology have just published an article about the history of these specimens and the ways they were brought to Freiburg. The text is a contribution to the anthology "Archaeobiodiversity: A European Perspective", edited by Gisela Grupe, George McGlynn and Joris Peters (published by Marie Leidorf, cf. our list of publications.
<24 May 2011>
New Links Page
Our website now features a list of recommended sites in the world wide web. The selection is not intended to be exhaustive but to get those started who want to learn more about physical anthropology.
<19 May 2011>
Software Package for Geometric Morphometrics
Stefan Schlager has developed a package for the statistical language R. It is called Morpho and provides a number of functions for geometric morphometric analyses:
3D analysis
sliding semilandmarks
3D mesh support
multicore support on Unix systems
Please contact Stefan Schlager directly to obtain the latest version of the software
<15 May 2011>
Review of "The Neolithic Demographic Transition"
In 2008 Ursula Wittwer-Backofen and Nicolas Tomo wrote the chapter "From Health to Civilization Stress? In search for Traces of a Health Transition in European Neolithic" for the compendium "The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences". The book has been reviewed in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology 143(2), S. 327 (DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21324).
<15 May 2011>
