Virtual anthropology: a preliminary test of macroscopic observation versus 3D surface scans and computed tomography (CT) scans

• Main Authors: Claudine Abegg (Author), Ilaria Balbo (Author), Alejandro Dominguez (Author), Silke Grabherr (Author), Lorenzo Campana (Author), Negahnaz Moghaddam (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Oxford University Press, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Virtual anthropology (VA) is based on applying anthropological methods currently used to analyse bones to 3D models of human remains. While great advances have been made in this endeavour in the past decade, several interrogations concerning how reliable these models are and what their proper use sh...