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Howells: 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

Arguments

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