title: Brief communication: cranial nonmetric trait database on the internet.
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/webdoc/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 museums. The 8,016 crania represent individuals from a broad geographic and temporal range of recent human populations, with regions best represented being the Arctic and northwestern North America.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada.
authors.forename: Nancy Suzanne
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Ossenberg
mesh_terms: D000885:Anthropology, Physical; D002508:Cephalometry; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D004930:Inuit; D012886:Skull / Q000033:anatomy & histology*
keywords: Aleuts; Eskimos; Native American ethnogenesis; skull