Renata Pedroso de Araujo

Renata Pedroso de Araujo
University of São Paulo | USP · Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

Master of Arts

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Introduction
I am a doctoral candidate in Archaeology at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, University of São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil). I am broadly interested in scientific work related to the peopling of the Americas in prehistory, as well as research on human evolution, material culture and paleoenvironmental studies, geoarchaeology, classification in archaeology, evolutionary archaeology, geometric morphometrics, and lithic technology.
Education
September 2009 - June 2012
Université de Paris IV - Sorbonne
Field of study
  • Archaeology
February 2002 - December 2005
University of São Paulo
Field of study
  • History
February 2000 - June 2005
University of São Paulo
Field of study
  • History

Publications

Publications (5)
Article
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Originally developed for the quantitative analysis of organismal shapes, both two-dimensional (2D) and 3D geometric morpho-metric methods (GMMs) have recently gained some prominence in archaeology for the analysis of stone tools 1-3-unquestionably the primary deep-time data source for the earliest periods of human cultural evolution. 4 The key stre...
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Este artigo consiste numa argumentação acerca da importância da Geoarqueologia enquanto componente básico de qualquer pesquisa arqueológica. A abordagem geoarqueológica nasce da interface entre a Arqueologia e as Ciências da Terra, mais especificamente da aplicação de conceitos, métodos e técnicas da segunda sobre a primeira, colocando em evidência...
Thesis
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Thesis
If you wish to have the full-text of this work, please contact me. This Master dissertation is not a published academic work, but it has received a copyright certification.

Questions

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Question
I am a beginner in Geometric Morphometrics and I am working with archaeological artefacts. I have these 3 doubts in regards to semilandmark building on TPS:
1. before placing the LM curve in all specimens, do I need to put all the pictures in the same scale using in tosDig, like we do for LMs?
2. The idea is to place 2 LMs in each object and then 14 semilandmarks in the contour. By watching the tutorial I realized that I wouldn’t need to put the 2 landmarks first, but only draw the semilandmarks curve all around each specimen, because later all these points are going to be transformed into landmarks in tpsUtil anyways — is that correct?
3. After converting the semilandmarks in landmarks on tpsUtil, how do I slide the semilandmarks of my specimens using TPSRelw? Is it only after the sliding step that the file will be ready to be used normally on MorphoJ? Then the protocol is the same as usual? — running the GPA, building classifiers, covariance matrix, PCA, etc etc?

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