ANTH 423 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Blunt Trauma, Discriminant, Rodent
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Fixed and movable ends with a scale. Most postcranial elements have maximum length taken on an osteometric board, moving the element to obtain the longest measurement: exceptions are tibia and femur. Femur, humerus, and radius have head measurements. Femur and humerus have distal epiphysis measurements. Comparisons of stature across populations as a measure of phenotypic variation. Mckern and stewart (1957: african american and european american males from korean. Korean war dead under 18 had not achieved full adult height. Lots of people snuck in under age (so they were 16) Trotter and gleser (1952, 1958, 1970: 1952: african american and european american male and female blacks and white from wwii war dead and the terry collection. African americans (male and female) have longer limbs than do european americans: 1958: added korean war dead and mexicans, asians, and. Limbs of asians shorter than african or european. Mexicans are shorter in the limb longer in the trunk.
