Geometric morphometrics of large South American camelids and their potential for the taxonomical identification in archaeological sites of the northern Argentina

The large South American camelids, the llama (Lama glama) and the guanaco (Lama guanicoe), present a low level of morphological variation in the skeleton and a significant overlap in their body size at population scale. Therefore, if we consider the inter-specific and intra-specific variability, it is difficult to distinguish between wild (guanaco) and domestic (llama) species, based only on osteometric analysis of remains from archaeological...