Scoring of nonmetric cranial traits: A methodological approach

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 195, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 543-550

  Gualdi Russo, E ^a   Tasca, M A ^a   Brasili, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Discontinuous traits; Osteology; Skull

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SCORING SYSTEM; SKULL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CEPHALOMETRY; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKULL; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033452860     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021878299005543     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. AXELLSON G, HEDEGAARD B (1985) Torus palatinus in Icelandic schoolchildren. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 67, 105-112.
2. BARBUJANI G, ROLO M, BARRAI I, CISTERNAS JP (1986) Torus palatinus: a segregation analysis. Human Heredity 35, 317-325.
3. BERGMAN P (1993) The occurrence of selected non-metrical traits of the skull in relation to cribra orbitalia and grave equipment. Variability and Evolution 2/3, 63-75.
4. BERGMAN P, HAUSER G (1985) Multi-dimensional complexes of skull traits. Anthropologischer Anzeiger 43, 165-171.
5. BERRY AC (1975) Factors affecting the incidence of nonmetrical skeletal variants. Journal of Anatomy 101, 361-379.
6. BERRY AC, BERRY RJ (1967) Epigenetic variation in the human cranium. Journal of Anatomy 120, 519-535.
7. BRASILI-GUALANDI P, GUALDI-RUSSO E (1989) Discontinuous traits of the skull: variation on sex, age, laterality. Anthropologischer Anzeiger 47, 239-250.
8. BRASILI P, GUALDI-RUSSO E, ZACCAGNI L (1999) Scoring of nonmetric cranial traits: a population study. Journal of Anatomy, 195, 551-562.
9. CHRISTENSEN AF (1997) Cranial non metric variation in North and Central Mexico. Anthropologische Anzeiger 55, 15-32.
10. DE STEFANO GF, HAUSER G, GUIDOTTI A, ROSSI S, GUALDI-RUSSO E, BRASILI-GUALANDI P (1984) Reflections on interobserver differences in scoring non-metric cranial traits. Journal of Human Evolution 13, 349-355.
11. HAUSER G, BERGMAN P (1984) Some biological and methodological problems of asymmetrical development; illustrated with reference to suturai bones. Anthropologischer Anzeiger 42, 101-116.
12. HAUSER G, DE STEFANO GF (1989) Epigenetic Variants of the Human Skull. Stuttgart: Schwizerbartsche Verlagsbuchandlung.
13. HRDLIĈKA A (1935) Ear exostoses. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collection 93, 1-100.
14. ISHIDA H, DODO Y (1997) Cranial variation in Prehistoric human skeletal remains from the Marianas. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 104, 399-410.
15. MOLTO JE (1979) The assessment and meaning of intraobserver error in population studies based on discontinuous cranial traits. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 51, 333-344
16. OSSENBERG NS (1970) The influence of artificial cranial deformation on discontinuous morphological traits. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 33, 357-372.
17. PERIZONIUS WRK (1979) Non metric cranial traits: sex difference and age dependence. Journal of Human Evolution 8, 679-684.
18. PIONTEK J (1979) Natural selection and microevolutionary variability of non-metric traits in medieval populations of Poland. Studies in Physical Anthropology 5, 95-110.
19. PIONTEK J (1988) Natural selection and non-metric traits in skeletal populations. Human Evolution 3, 321-327.
20. PROWSE TI, LOVELL NC (1996) Concordance of cranial and dental morphological traits and evidence for endogamy in ancient Egypt. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 101, 399-410.
21. REINHARD R, RÖSING FW (1985) Ein Literaturüberblick über Definitionen diskreter merkmale anatomischer Varianten am Schädel des Menschen. Ulm: Selbstverlag.
22. RÖSING FW (1984) Discreta of the human skeleton: a critical review. Journal of Human Evolution 13, 319-323.
23. RUBINI M (1997) Biological homogeneity and familial segregation in the Iron age population of Alfedena (Abruzzo, Italy), based on cranial discrete traits analysis. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 6, 454-462.
24. RUBINI M, BONAFEDE E, MOGLIAZZA S, MORESCHINI L (1997) Etruscan biology: the Tarquinian population, seventh to second century B.C. (Southern Etruria, Italy). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 7, 202-211.
25. SJØVOLD T (1984) A report on the heritability of some cranial measurements and non-metric traits. In Multivariate Statistical Methods in Physical Anthropology (ed. Van Vark, GN, Howells WW), pp. 223-246. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel.
26. TOGERSEN J (1951a) The developmental genetics and evolutionary meaning of the metopic suture. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 9, 193-210.
27. TORGERSEN J (1951b) Hereditary factors in the sutural pattern of the skull. Acta Radiologica 36, 374-382.
28. WOO JK (1950) Torus palatinus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 8, 81-111.