3D surface scans of first phalanges from several modern Canadian caribou populations (Rangifer tarandus)
Ana Belén Galán López
Phalanges were individually scanned using a NextEngine 3D laser Scanner (at the Anthropology Department of the Université de Montréal, Canada), in order to obtain a highly accurate 3D surface model of each bone. Samples were obtained from biologists in the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, British Columbia, who provided us with mountain caribou samples ...and related information about herds (type of herd, sex if known and location). Peary caribou, Barren-Ground and Grant’s caribou specimens were collected from the Canadian Museum of Nature (Ottawa), which owns one of the largest collections of caribou in the country. Eastern migratory and short distance woodland caribou were obtained with the help of Biologists from the Forest and Wildlife branch of the Québec Government, the Prehistory and bioarchaeology lab from Laval University and the archaeozoology laboratories of the University of Montréal.