Data of Kouvari et al., 2021 - Humans and climate as possible drivers of the morphology and function of the mandible of Suncus etruscus in Corsica

Data and R files for manuscript Kouvari et al., 2021 titled
"Humans and climate as possible drivers of the morphology and function of the mandible of Suncus etruscus in Corsica"

Highlights
- Mandible shape changed rapidly over the short period of time (14-19th century AD).
- This led to changes in the mechanical potential of the principal masticatory muscle, the temporalis.
- The temporalis’s negative correlation with the masseter, as well as their link with the anthropisation index suggest diet shifts linked to human activity
- The integration of the body and ramus is not an indicator of environmental changes.

Specimen photographs are only available upon request, due to their massive file size.

Data folders:
- The landmarks_morpho_raw folder contains the raw landmark coordinates of the specimens. These were produced using the "tpsdig2" software (Rohlf, 2010).
- The landmarks_morpho_total folder contains the landmark coordinates of the specimens for each fragment type, including specimens for other more complete fragment types.
- The size_and_mp folder contains centroid size and mechanical potential data files.
- The specimen_info folder contains the specimen information per fragment type (layer, D for right and G for left side mandible, and specimen number).

R files have a title describing what they do and they are in the order of execution.