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The Howells' craniometric data
Description
A subset of a dataset that consists of 82 craniometric measurements taken from approximately two thousands and half human crania from 28 geographically diverse populations. The full data set can be found in https://rdrr.io/github/geanes/bioanth/man/howell.html
Usage
Howells
Format
A data frame with 441 rows and 10 variables:
- Sex
'M' for male and 'F' for female
- Pop
Populations' names
- GOL
Glabello occipital length
- NOL
Nasio occipital length
- BNL
Bastion nasion length
- BBH
Basion bregma height
- XCB
Maximum cranial breadth
- XFB
Maximum frontal breadth
- ZYB
Bizygomatic breadth
- AUB
Biauricular breadth
References
Howells WW. (1989). Skull Shapes and the Map. Craniometric Analyses in the Dispersion of Modern Homo. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 79, pp. 189. Cambridge, Mass.: Peabody Museum.
Howells WW. (1995). Who's Who in Skulls. Ethnic Identification of Crania from Measurements. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 82, pp. 108. Cambridge, Mass.: Peabody Museum.
Howells, W. W. (1973). Cranial Variation in Man: A Study by Multivariate Analysis of Patterns of Difference Among Recent Human Populations (Vol. 67). Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
Howells, W. W. (1996). Notes and Comments: Howells' craniometric data on the internet. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 101(3), 441-442