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List of Books
Noriko Seguchi Last modified date:2023.11.09

Associate Professor / Basic Structure of Human Societies / Department of Environmental Changes / Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies


Books
1. Noriko Seguchi, Beatrix Dudzik, Mary-Margaret Murphy, Anna Prentiss, Kengo Ohno, Yoshinori Kawakubo, Shiori, Yonemoto, Stefan Schlager, Will Archer, Darya Presnyakova, 3D Data Acquisition for Bioarchaeology, Forensic Anthropology, and Archaeology, Academic Press, Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/C2017-0-02320-0, 2019.06, [URL], 3D Data Acquisition for Bioarchaeology, Forensic Anthropology, and Archaeology serves as a guide for students and researchers that are interested in the use of geometric morphometric analyses in forensic and bioarcheological contexts. Digitizing and imaging methods that allow for the collection of three-dimensional (3D) data have vastly expanded and improved analytical methods for exploring shape and morphological diversification. The 3D approach is becoming a significant toolkit in biological/forensic anthropology and archaeology as the application of geometric morphometrics to the study of the human skeleton allows for in-depth analysis of morphological variation in several dimensions simultaneously. Simply put, these approaches allow for examination of skeletal dimensions outside of the vertical and horizontal planes that are used in traditional studies of skeletal metrics. The chapters provided in this book offer clear definitions and explanations of different types of 3D data, to include 3D digitizer, landmarks and semilandmarks, scan data derived from 3D scanners, CT, and digital mesh models created from scan data. Craniofacial data acquisition and data analysis is the main focus of this text, but a brief tutorial on data acquisition and analysis of lithic artifacts is also provided. We offer best-practices of data acquisition methods for recording landmark and semi-landmark data on human crania, to include fragile archaeological human remains. The reader’s understanding of geometric morphometrics will be enriched by descriptions and tutorials on the technology used for virtual model processing protocols, alignment methods, data acquisition techniques, basic technological protocols, and variations in research design within different subfields of biological anthropology and archaeology..
2. Noriko Seguchi, Mary-Margaret Murphy, Shiori Yonemoto, Chapter Six-Validity Assessment : Validity testing of mixed data by multiple devices, methods, and observers in "3D Data Acquisition for Bioarchaeology, Forensic Anthropology, and Archaeology", Academic Press, Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/C2017-0-02320-0, Pages 103-130, 2019.06, This chapter will outline validity testing of the use of mixed data, where a sample is comprised of 3D data collected using more than one methodology. It examines intraobserver error between landmark data acquisition using a Microscribe and landmark data acquisition using the program Stratovan Checkpoint (Stratovan Corporation, Davis, CA) on 3D mesh models. This chapter discusses whether these two types of landmark data can be combined together, and it concludes that landmark data have a sufficiently low “margin of error” under a well-designed experiment. It also discusses the observation that semilandmark data have a significant observer error on the “difficult to capture” curve of crania collected using Microscribe. This chapter demonstrates that the difficulty of visualization and collection using Microscribe is markedly higher and when compared with the virtual data collection method, virtual data collection results in a truer, more accurate set of data for analysis..
3. Mary-Margaret Murphy, Noriko Seguchi, Chapter Two - Digital model sample—Scanning and processing protocol in "3D Data Acquisition for Bioarchaeology, Forensic Anthropology, and Archaeology ", Academic Press, Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/C2017-0-02320-0, Pages 17-45, 2019.06, This chapter is a brief introduction to the virtual environment for working with three-dimensional data. The chapter will introduce terminology, software and file formats, various alignment methods, surface scanner data collection, a discussion of source of error on data collection on surface scan, and processing of the mesh model. Software topics include open source software and commercial software for model processing and data management. Because the methods of data capture and model processing varies between technologies and different equipment, this chapter also discusses how to capture surface data in cross-compatible formats, data management, processing mesh data, cleaning data, and decimation of the data for open source software and commercial software. To tie this together for research design, this chapter also suggests “workflow” for surface scan data collection for the beginners, as well as model processing protocols..
4. Noriko Seguchi, Beatrix Dudzik, Mary-Margaret Murphy, Anna M. Prentiss, Chapter One - Introduction in "3D Data Acquisition for Bioarchaeology, Forensic Anthropology, and Archaeology ", Academic Press, Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/C2017-0-02320-0, Pages 1-16, 2019.06, This introduction covers the following topics: the history of various scanned data and three-dimensional (3D) technologies within biological anthropology, which includes bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, paleoanthropology, archaeology, and medical sciences, as well as the benefits of 3D projects and collaboration. This introduction advocates for the advantages researchers can derive from making collaborative efforts such as sharing, combining data sets, and cooperating remotely. It also outlines the contents of each chapter contained in this text..
5. Beatrix Dudzik, Noriko Seguchi and Anna M. Prentiss, Chapter Nine - Conclusions in "3D Data Acquisition for Bioarchaeology, Forensic Anthropology, and Archaeology ", Academic Press, Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/C2017-0-02320-0, Pages 175-180, 2019.06, The Conclusions chapter provides a summary of the content themes throughout each of the chapters in the text. It provides context regarding how the various types of 3D data can be used to answer research questions and briefly summarizes examples and case studies used in the text. This final chapter also highlights the potentials of interdisciplinary collaborations using 3D technology within the fields of biological anthropology and archeology..
6. C. Loring Brace, Noriko Seguchi, A.R. Nelson, Q. Pan, Hideyuki Umeda, M. Wilson, M.L. Brace, The Ainu and Jomon Connection, Texas A & M Press, USA, Kennewick Man: The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton. Edited by Douglas W. Owsley and Richard L. Jantz. Texas A&M Press, College Station. pp.463-471., 2014.09, When the craniofacial dimensions of the 9300-year-old Kennewick specimen from the southern part of the State of Washington are compared to ancient and recent human craniofacial samples from both sides of the Pacific Ocean, it is clear that Kennewick is more closely related to the earliest inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere than the latter are to its immediate pre-Columbian residents. Not only that, Kennewick clearly ties more closely to the recent Ainu of Japan and coastal northeast Asia and to their evident ancestors — the prehistoric Jōmon — than to any other population. The Jōmon, as the direct descendants of the Paleolithic inhabitants of northeast Asia, have an antiquity greater than that of the first inhabitants of the New World. The planked-canoe technology that the Ainu inherited from their Jōmon forebears allowed them to make use of deep-sea mammals and fish, and it also provided the capability of the Jōmon to spread across the coast of Beringia and down the western edge of the Americas more than 12,500 years ago on the one hand, and, more recently, out into Oceania as the first inhabitants of Polynesia on the other. With the melting of the Late Pleistocene glaciers providing an ice-free corridor between the North American Laurentide and Cordilleran ice masses, Jōmon-derived people, aided by the use of birch-bark canoes, could come from the Beringian north and spread east across the swamp-lake-and-stream country to the south of the melting glaciers. Craniofacial data clearly show that subsequent entrants into the Western Hemisphere did not have the same Asian roots as the first or Jōmon-derived arrivals..
7. Deconstructing scientific discourse by the conservatives: the debate over gender differences from the perspective of biological anthropology .