Guild burials or family graves? Intrapopulation relationship analysis of 18th century La Concepción church cemetery in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands

When DNA can't help: The osteobiographical profile and stable isotope analysis as auxiliary tools for refining genealogical relationships, on the example of the Swéerts‐Sporck family

“…Consequently, alternative approaches are being sought to detect biologically related individuals, or even to approximate the degree of their biological kinship in situations where it is not possible to rely on DNA (Minozzi et al, 2020). Determining the degree of similarity of individuals based on the occurrence of hereditary and rarely occurring morphological osteological and dental traits or developmental anomalies, or the morphology of the frontal sinuses, is the most common approach (Cockerill et al, 2021;Cvrček et al, 2018Cvrček et al, , 2020Irish et al, 2020). Recently, the analysis of stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen has also penetrated this area.…”

Does sternal body shape reflect family relationships? A study on a genealogically documented Central European osteological sample (19th–20th centuries)

“…Some studies have pointed to a shared occurrence of some morphological traits among biologically related individuals, such as sternal foramina (Crubézy, 1992), manubriosternal fusion (Cvrček, Kuželka, et al, 2021a), and pectus excavatum (Creswick et al, 2006). This fact could be used both for the detection of biological relationships in individuals from anonymous prehistoric burial grounds (Cockerill et al, 2021; Johnson, 2018; Sjögren et al, 2020) and for the identification of an individual, which would be based on the data of their biological relatives (Palamenghi et al, 2021). On the other hand, it must be taken into account that a high degree of similarity between biologically related individuals could cause a false‐positive identification (Cameriere et al, 2008).…”