howelltest: Howell Craniometric Test Data Set

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Description

The William W. Howells Craniometric Data Set consists of craniometric measurements taken from 2524 human crania from 28 populations. Up to 82 measurements were obtained from these crania. In addition, Dr. Howells obtained data from 524 "test" crania (crania not included in the main data set).

Usage

howelltest

Format

A data frame with 524 rows and 89 variables:

Variables

• ID: Unique case ID

• Sex: M or F

• Tribe: Tribe name

• Origin: Origin location

• Museum.location: Museum location

• Museum.number: Museum number

• Comments: Notes

• GOL: mm

• NOL: mm

• BNL: mm

• BBH: mm

• XCB: mm

• XFB: mm

• ZYB: mm

• AUB: mm

• WCB: mm

• ASB: mm

• BPL: mm

• NPH: mm

• NLH: mm

• JUB: mm

• NLB: mm

• MAB: mm

• MDH: mm

• MDB: mm

• OBH: mm

• OBB: mm

• DKB: mm

• NDS: mm

• WNB: mm

• SIS: mm

• ZMB: mm

• SSS: mm

• FMB: mm

• NAS: mm

• EKB: mm

• DKS: mm

• IML: mm

• XML: mm

• MLS: mm

• WMH: mm

• SOS: mm

• GLS: mm

• STB: mm

• FRC: mm

• FRS: mm

• FRF: mm

• PAC: mm

• PAS: mm

• PAF: mm

• OCC: mm

• OCS: mm

• OCF: mm

• FOL: mm

• NAR: mm

• SSR: mm

• PRR: mm

• DKR: mm

• ZOR: mm

• FMR: mm

• EKR: mm

• ZMR: mm

• AVR: mm

• BRR: mm

• VRR: mm

• LAR: mm

• OSR: mm

• BAR: mm

• NAA: mm

• PRA: mm

• BAA: mm

• NBA: mm

• BBA: mm

• BRA: mm

• SSA: mm

• NFA: mm

• DKA: mm

• NDA: mm

• SIA: mm

• FRA: mm

• PAA: mm

• OCA: mm

• RFA: mm

• RPA: mm

• ROA: mm

• BSA: mm

• SBA: mm

• SLA: mm

• TBA: mm

Citation

• Howells WW. 1973. Cranial Variation in Man. A Study by Multivariate Analysis of Patterns of Differences Among Recent Human Populations. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, vol. 67, pp. 259. Cambridge, Mass.: Peabody Museum.

• 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.

Source

http://web.utk.edu/~auerbach/HOWL.htm

See Also

Other howells: howell

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