Craniometric variation in the Americas.
Craniofacial variation is investigated in Latin America and the Caribbean. The samples included in this study are two historic and one prehistoric sample from Ecuador; prehistoric and modern Cuban samples; a prehistoric Peruvian sample; two prehistoric Mexican samples and one contemporary admixed Mexican sample; a 16th/17th-century Spanish sample; and Terry blacks. Biological distance is investigated using traditional craniometrics by computing size and shape variables according to Mosimann and colleagues. This study shows that there is much biological variation within the Americas.
Ross
Ann H
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C.A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
Ubelaker
Douglas H
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Falsetti
Anthony B
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D000885:Anthropology, Physical; D002508:Cephalometry; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D007843:Latin America; D012886:Skull / Q000033:anatomy & histology*