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Australia
Description
Raw data from Joseph Birdsell's 1938 survey. The data is from two regions (B1 and B19), see Gilligan and Bulbeck (2007) for a map of the regions. Data downloaded from Dr. Peter Brown's website: https://www.peterbrown-palaeoanthropology.net/resource.html
Usage
Australia
Format
A data frame with 94 rows and 9 variables:
- Pop
(Region) ("B1" = Southwest Australia, "B19" = Northeast Australia), see Gilligan and Bulbeck (2007)
- Sex
Sex coded as "F" or "M"
- Weight.kg
body weight in kilograms
- Stature.mm
Standing height in millimeters
- Hum.Lgth
Humeral length in millimeters
- Rad.Lgth
Radius length in millimeters
- Fem.Lgth
Femoral length in millimeters
- Tib.Lgth
Tibial length in millimeters
- Bi.illiac
Bi-illiac breadth in millimeters
References
Gilligan, I., & Bulbeck, D. (2007). Environment and morphology in Australian Aborigines: A re-analysis of the Birdsell database. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 134(1), 75-91.