Morphometrics of human auditory ossicles from Antinoe Necropolis (Egypt) |
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Authors: | M S Siori M J Monchietto M Masali |
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Institution: | (1) Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Laboratorio di Antropologia, Via Accademia Albertina, 17, 10123 Torino, Italy;(2) Dipartimento di Scienze Antropologiche, Archeologiche e Storico-Territoriali, Sezione di Bio-Etno-Antropologia, Via Accademia Albertina, 17 10123 Torino, Italy |
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Abstract: | Historical evidence suggests that the Christian Coptic population of Antinoe necropolis, probable descendants of Dynastic
Egyptians, may reflect admixture from Greek and Roman populations. Within the anthropological surveys on Antinoe skeletal
remains (A.D. 300–600), a sample of auditory ossicles was compared with a Dynastic Egyptian sample (“G. Marro” osteological
collection), from Asiut and Gebelen Univariate and multivariate statistical analyses were applied, to this end.
The auditory ossicles are generally larger in the Coptic group; in both groups shape measurements have a high variability,
while size measurements are relatively invariable. Univariate variances are homogeneous but the means are significantly different.
This suggests genetic changes, but identical patterns of variation.
The stepwise discriminant functions analysis and the Generalized Distance, suggesting a biological heterogeneity in the Antinoe
sample in spite of some similarity of the two groups, tend to support this.
Further analyses of the auditory ossicles in Greek and Roman populations are however needed to confirm the gene flow hypothesis
in the Antinoe population, suggested by historical data. |
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Keywords: | Middle ear ossicles Morphometry Ancient Egyptian populations |
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