Brief Communication : Cranial Nonmetric Trait Database on the Internet
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Authors
Ossenberg, Nancy Suzanne
Date
2016-07-13
Type
journal article
Language
en
Keyword
Skull , Eskimos , Aleuts , Native American Ethnogenesis
Alternative Title
Abstract
This brief note announces the publication
of a nonmetric cranial trait database as a freely available resource on the Internet at: http://library.queensu.ca/web-
doc/ssdc/cntd. The files were constructed in the program
Excel, and are available also in comma-delimited format.
These one-observer data on 38 traits were recorded in
1963–2003 in skeletal collections curated at many muse-
ums. The 8,016 crania represent individuals from a broad
geographic and temporal range of recent human popula-
tions, with regions best represented being the Arctic and
northwestern North America. Am J Phys Anthropol
152:551–553, 2013.