Intragroup Variation of the Facial Skeleton in 16th–19th Century Rural Russian Populations in the Worldwide Context: A Principal Component Analysis

• Published in: Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia
• Main Authors: A. A. Evteev, O. V. Dvurechensky, А. А. Евтеев, О. В. Двуреченский
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian; English
• Published: IAET SB RAS 2017
• Subjects: русские; principal component analysis; intragroup variation; Russians; компонентный анализ; внутригрупповая изменчивость; Kozino; Staraya; karelians; sami
• Online Access: https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/319; https://doi.org/10.17746/1563-0110.2017.45.4.143-151

This article outlines a technique for comparing cranial samples by studying their individual variation patterns against the background of worldwide variation using the principal component analysis (PCA). The training set consisted of 357 male crania from 27 populations of Europe, Asia, and North Ame...