Vestergaard_and_Hoggard_2019 (Danish Journal of Archaeology: data)
Christian Hoggard · 2019
Data for "A Novel Geometric Morphometric (GMM) Application to the Study of Bronze Age Tutuli" (Authors: Christina Vestergaard and Christian Steven Hoggard) Abstract: In this paper, we examine the morphological diversity of the tutuli object group from the earlier Nordic Bronze Age (henceforth NBA) – an often over-looked object group despite their abundance specially, temporally and contextually. Currently, only a few studies of the morphological diversity of tutuli have been published, and these consist primarily of decade-old-typologies. The objective of this of this paper is first and foremost methodological, as we examine two research questions – concerning classification and periodisation – through a novel two-dimensional geometric morphometric (henceforth GMM) framework and subsequent multivariate analysis. Inherently we examine whether specific shapes conform to the classificatory of the Montelius typology, and whether a temporal relationship exists between types and shapes. Note (14/07): In a small number of examples, the order of specimens did not match the .tps file. The updated files reflect the true order (and provide an even higher discriminatory rate than previously noted) - C.S.Hoggard