Hoofprints in the Sand Graphics: Figs. 1-11

<p>Figure 1. Map of sites included in the LSI analysis.&nbsp;</p> <p>Figure 2. Landmark (red) and SSLM (blue) configuration used in the GMM study, after P&ouml;llath et al.( 2019).</p> <p>Figure 3. LSI values for length (left) and width (right) grouped by zone (Coast/Inland) and subset into era (Bronze Age/Iron Age).</p> <p>Figure 4. Distributions of LSI length values per site and period. Sample size is represented on the y-axis, and LSI values are represented on the x-axis. Vertical black dashed line and text within the facets represent mean values.</p> <p>Figure 5. Distributions of LSI width values per site and period. Sample size is represented on the y-axis, and LSI values are represented on the x-axis. Vertical black dashed line and text within the facets represent mean values.</p> <p>Figure 6. A scatter diagram of the two ADI indexes, Bd/Dl and Dl/GLl, formulated from linear measurements taken on the N=130 astragali included in the GMM &nbsp;analysis, modified after Davis&nbsp;(2017a: 65, fig. 9.3) (used with permission).</p> <p>Figure 7. Results of the log-transformed&nbsp;centroid size analysis. The median size of astragali increases in the Persian period in Tell Keisan.</p> <p>Figure 8. Biplot of the first two principal components, points are color-coded by context and sized according to log centroid size value. Thin plate spline (TPS) warp grids visualize morphological change between the minimum and maximum shapes along PC1 (x-axis) and PC2 (y-axis).</p> <p>Figure 9. Boxplots depicting the range of variation along PC1 (left) and PC2 (right).</p> <p>Figure 10. 10-PC&rsquo;s shape space volume occupied by the specimens from each context.</p> <p>Figure 11. A: Outlier specimen from Persian period Tell Keisan (Cat. #588). B: Modern sheep (O. aries) comparative specimen from Israel (Cat. #596).</p>