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Regional isolation in the Balkan region: An analysis of craniofacial variation
Article first published online: 20 AUG 2003
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.10339
Copyright © 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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Ross, A. H. (2004), Regional isolation in the Balkan region: An analysis of craniofacial variation. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 124: 73–80. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.10339
Publication History
- Issue published online: 8 APR 2004
- Article first published online: 20 AUG 2003
- Manuscript Accepted: 29 APR 2003
- Manuscript Received: 19 NOV 2002
Funded by
- W.K. McClure Fund for the Study of World Affairs
- FORDISC 2.O
- William M. Bass Endowment Fund, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- US-Croatian Science Technology Program
- American Museum of Natural History
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Keywords:
- craniometrics;
- human variation;
- multivariate statistics;
- Balkans
Abstract
Biological variation is investigated among contemporary Croatians, Bosnians, American whites, and other multitemporal Balkan populations (World War II Croatians, Macedonians, and Greeks) via multivariate statistics and distance measures of the craniofacial complex. This study demonstrates that there is considerable variation among groups of European ancestry. Bosnians and Croatians who are thought to be relatively homogenous and historically to originate from the same Slav ancestry show local variations. While environmental plasticity has been used to explain cranial changes among human groups, it does not adequately explain the variation observed between Bosnians and Croatians. It is an oversimplification to exclusively attribute the vast range of variability observed among local as well as geographic populations to environmental adaptations. Am J Phys Anthropol, 2003. © 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc.