Who were they really? model‐free and model‐bound dental nonmetric analyses to affirm documented population affiliations of sevenSouthAfrican “Bantu” samples

Objectives For bioarchaeological biodistance analyses it is common to “assume” that skeletal samples are representative of the populations to which they are attributed. Here, alternatively, samples with “known” attribution in the Raymond A. Dart Collection are assessed regarding their suitability for use in such analyses. Prior curation issues may call their ascribed identities into question. Materials and Methods These 20th century samples...