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Dr Una Strand Vidarsdottir

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Biography

Development of modern shape variation (hard tissues); human evolution; craniofacial growth. Particularly the use of geometric morphometic techniques to study changes in craniofacial form during ontogeny.

Research Groups

Department of Anthropology

• Evolutionary Anthropology
• Evolutionary Anthropology Research Group

Research Interests

• Craniofacial growth
• Development of modern human shape variation (hard tissues)
• Human evolution
• Particularly the use of Geometric morphometric techniques to study changes in craniofacial form during ontogeny

Selected Publications

Books: sections

• Strand Vidarsdóttir, U. & O'Higgins, P. (2003). Developmental variation in the facial skeleton of anatomically modern Homo sapiens. In Patterns of Growth and Development in the Genus Homo. Thompson J, Krovitz G. & Nelson A Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 114-143.
• Vidarsdottir U & O'Higgins P (1999). New approaches to the quantitative analysis of craniofacial growth and variation. In Human Growth in the Past: Studies from Bones and Teeth. RD Hoppa & CM Fitzgerald Cambridge University Press. 128-160.

Journal papers: academic

• King, CL, Bentley, RA, Tayles, N, Strand Vidarsdottir, U, Nowell, G & Macpherson, CG (2013). Moving peoples, changing diets: Isotopic differences highlight migration and subsistence changes in the Upper Mun River Valley, Thailand. Journal of Archaeological Science 40(4): 1681-1688.
• Ottoni, Claudio, Girdland Flink, Linus, Evin, Allowen, Geörgi, Christina, De Cupere, Eva, Van Neer, Wim, Bartosiewicz, Lásló, Linderholm, Anna, Barnett, Ross, Peters, Joris, Decorte, Ronny, Waelkens, Marc, Vanderheyden, Nancy, Ricaut, François-Xavier, Hoelzel, A. Rus, Mashkour, Marjan, Karimlu, Azadeh Fatemeh Mohaseb, Seno, Shiva Sheikhi, Daujat,Julie, Brock, Fiona, Pinhasi, Ron, Hongo, Hitomi, Perez-Enciso, Miguel, Rasumssen, Morten, Frantz, Laurent, Megens, Hendrik-Jan, Crooijmans, Richard, Groenen, Martien, Arbuckle, Benjamin, Benecke, Nobert, Strand Vidarsdottir, Una, Burger, Joachim, Cucchi, Thomas, Dobney, Keith & Larson, Greger (2013). Pig domestication and human-mediated dispersal in western Eurasia revealed through ancient DNA and geometric morphometrics. Molecular Biology and Evolution 30(4): 824-832.
• Evin, A, Cucchi, T, Cardini, A, Strand Vidarsdottir, U, Larson, G & Dobney, K (2013). The long and winding road: identifying pig domestication through molar size and shape. Journal of Archaeological Science 40(1): 735-743.
• Buck, TJ & Strand Vidarsdottir, U (2012). Craniofacial Evolution in Polynesia: A Geometric Morphometric Study of Population Diversity. American Journal of Human Biology 24(6): 776-785.
• Plomp, KA, Roberts, CA & Strand Viðarsdóttir, U (2012). Vertebral morphology influences the development of Schmorl's nodes in the lower thoracic vertebrae. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 149(4): 572-582.
• Stevens, SD & Vidarsdottir, US (2008). Morphological changes in the shape of the non-pathological bony knee joint with age: A morphometric analysis of the distal femur and proximal tibia in three populations of known age at death. International Journal Of Osteoarchaeology 18(4): 352-371.
• Buck, TJ & Strand Vidarsdóttir, U (2004). A proposed method for the identification of race in sub-adult skeletons: a geometric morphometric analysis of mandibular morphology. Journal of Forensic Sciences 49(6): 1159-1164.
• Strand Vidarsdóttir, U. & Cobb, S. (2004). Inter- and intra-specific variation in the ontogeny of the hominoid facial skeleton: testing assumptions on ontogenetic variability. Annals of Anatomy 186(5-6): 423-428.
• Strand Vidarsdóttir, U. , O'Higgins, P. & Stringer, C. B. (2002). A geometric morphometric study of regional differences in the ontogeny of the modern human facial skeleton. Journal of Anatomy 201(3): 211-229.

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