title: [Vectorial description of the horizontal craniogram].
abstract: After the polynomial approximation we used Bezier's algorithm to obtain a vectorial description and to compare the horizontal craniogram morphology of hominid skulls. A minimum number of determinant points chosen on the original curves constitutes the vertices of a closed polygonal. By these points Bezier's interpolation gives new curves very similar to the polynomial curves obtained by the original ones. Each pair of consecutive segments was used to construct a parallelogram and so to have a vector. We applied the procedure on horizontal craniograms of Sts V. Pithecanthropus (erectus) VIII (Sartono), Circeo I (after S. Sergi) and a modern human female skull. Ten vectors for each skull were detected and compared. Some similarities in frontal and posterior regions of P VIII and Circeo I were explained in terms of common morphological solution to the problem of mechanical stability in the skulls with pronounced platycrany under chewing load.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Zoologia e Anatomia Comparata, Università di Bari.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pesce Delfino
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vacca
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Alciati
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000717:Anatomy, Comparative; D000818:Animals; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D002508:Cephalometry; D005260:Female; D005580:Fossils; D015186:Hominidae / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D008409:Mastication; D010163:Paleontology; D011323:Primates / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D013045:Species Specificity
vernacular_title: Descrizione vettoriale della forma di craniogrammi orizzontali.