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Cranium

Changes in infant head shape: Developmental trends during the first year of life and secular changes observed in recent years

Eujin Lee, Hama Watanabe, Ryoya Saji, Fumitaka Homae, Gentaro Taga

published 13 Mar 2026

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Funerary practices of cremation at the megalithic societies of South-Eastern Iberia: The cemetery of Los Milanes

Paula Becerra Fuello, Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez, Miriam Vílchez Suárez, Sonia Robles Carrasco, Lara Milesi García, Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, Christophe Snoeck, Elisavet Stamataki, Javier Lescure, Margarita Sánchez Romero

published 03 Sep 2025

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Cranial morphology reveals a lack of phylogenetic signal and rapid adaptive radiation in the bat genus Molossus (Chiroptera: Molossidae)

Ana Priscila Medeiros Olímpio, Fabiano Stefanello, Beatriz Dybas da Natividade, Itiberê Piaia Bernardi, Amanda Cristiny da Silva Lima, Samira Brito Mendes, Cleison Luís da Silva Costa, Elmary da Costa Fraga, Maria Claudene Barros, Iracilda Sampaio

published 02 Apr 2025

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Morphometric evaluation of the anterior cranial fossa during the prenatal stage in humans and its clinical implications

Wojciech Derkowski, Alicja Kędzia, Krzysztof Dudek, Michał Glonek

published 27 Dec 2024

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Heads up–Four Giraffa species have distinct cranial morphology

Nikolaos Kargopoulos, Jesús Marugán-Lobón, Anusuya Chinsamy, Bernard R. Agwanda, Michael Butler Brown, Stephanie Fennessy, Sara Ferguson, Rigardt Hoffman, Fredrick Lala, Arthur Muneza, Ogeto Mwebi, Moses Otiende, Alice Petzold, Sven Winter, Abdoul Razack Moussa Zabeirou, Julian Fennessy

published 19 Dec 2024

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Sex estimation techniques based on skulls in forensic anthropology: A scoping review

Xindi Wang, Guihong Liu, Qiushuo Wu, Yazi Zheng, Feng Song, Yuan Li

published 09 Dec 2024

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A multi-proxy approach to reconstruct chronology, human mobility, and funerary practices at the Late Bronze-Early Iron Age urnfield of San Valentino (San Vito al Tagliamento, Italy)

Giacomo Capuzzo, Elisavet Stamataki, Michael Allen Beck De Lotto, Silvia Pettarin, Philippe Claeys, Nadine Mattielli, Giovanni Tasca, Christophe Snoeck

published 07 Nov 2024

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Upper Palaeolithic fishing techniques: Insights from the engraved plaquettes of the Magdalenian site of Gönnersdorf, Germany

Jérôme Robitaille, Lisa-Elen Meyering, Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser, Paul Pettitt, Olaf Jöris, Robert Kentridge

published 06 Nov 2024

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Bioarchaeology and evidence of violence from a precolonial later stone age communal burial in South Africa

Calvin G. Mole, Judith Sealy, Deano D. Stynder, Petrus J. Le Roux, Victoria E. Gibbon

published 17 Sep 2024

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Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors affect craniofacial structures in a mouse model

Quinn N. Saluan, George R. Bauer, Heema Vyas, Amr Mohi, Emily L. Durham, James J. Cray Jr

published 18 Jul 2024

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Diversity in the internal functional feeding elements of sympatric morphs of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus)

Guðbjörg Ósk Jónsdóttir, Laura-Marie von Elm, Finnur Ingimarsson, Samuel Tersigni, Sigurður Sveinn Snorrason, Arnar Pálsson, Sarah Elizabeth Steele

published 21 May 2024

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Morphological and genetic analysis for the diversity conservation of rare species, Thamnaconus multilineatus (Tetraodontiformes: Monacanthidae)

Tae-Sik Yu, Kiyun Park, Kyeong-Ho Han, Ihn-Sil Kwak

published 29 Feb 2024

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rd-1^st c. BCE)" class="list-title">"Until death do us part". A multidisciplinary study on human- Animal co- burials from the Late Iron Age necropolis of Seminario Vescovile in Verona (Northern Italy, 3^rd-1^st c. BCE)

Zita Laffranchi, Stefania Zingale, Umberto Tecchiati, Alfonsina Amato, Valentina Coia, Alice Paladin, Luciano Salzani, Simon R. Thompson, Marzia Bersani, Irene Dori, Sönke Szidat, Sandra Lösch, Jessica Ryan-Despraz, Gabriele Arenz, Albert Zink, Marco Milella

published 14 Feb 2024

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