Ricerc@Sapienza

Several digital technologies are nowadays developed and applied to the study of the human fossil record. Here, we present a low-cost hardware implementation of the digital acquisition via photogrammetry, applied to a specimen of paleoanthropological interest: the Neanderthal skull Saccopastore 1. Such implementation has the purpose to semi-automatize the procedures of digital acquisition, by

The study of the fossil record is fundamental to understand the evolution of morphological traits. Fossil remains often appear fragmented and/or deformed by taphonomic processes, which result in cracks, missing portions and deformation of the original morphology. In paleoanthropology, cranial remains are at the same time the most informative and sometimes the most badly deformed fossil portions, often presenting themselves broken, partially incomplete, and/or distorted.