3D Data Acquisition for Bioarchaeology, Forensic Anthropology, and Archaeology

3D Data Acquisition for Bioarchaeology, Forensic Anthropology, and Archaeology serves as a handbook for the collection and processing of 3-D scanned data and as a tool for scholars interested in pursuing research projects with 3-D models. The book's chapters enhance the reader’s understanding of the technology by covering virtual model processing protocols, alignment methods, actual data acquisition techniques, basic technological protocols, and considerations of variation in research design associated with biological anthropology and archaeology.

• Thoroughly guides the reader through the “how-to” on different stages of 3D-data-related research
• Provides statistical analysis options for 3D image data
• Covers protocols, methods and techniques as associated with biological anthropology and archaeology

Biological Anthropologists, Forensic Anthropologists, and Archaeologists. Graduate Level and Upper-Level Undergraduate students in Bioarcheology, Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology

1. Introduction
2. Digital model sampledScanning and processing protocol
3. Three-dimensional investigations of fragile archaeological human remains
4. Landmark and semilandmark data collection using digitizers and data processing
5. Landmark and semilandmark data collection using 3D virtual model and data processin
6. Validity assessment: validity testing of mixed data by multiple devices, methods, and observers
7. 3D data analysis using R
8. Considerations in the application of 3DGM to stone artifacts with a focus on orientation error in bifaces
9. Conclusions