Morphological and metrical variation in skulls from San Miguel Island, California : II. The foramen magnum: shape, size, correlations / by Bruno Oetteking.

  • Oetteking, Bruno, 1871-
Date:
1928
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Credit: Morphological and metrical variation in skulls from San Miguel Island, California : II. The foramen magnum: shape, size, correlations / by Bruno Oetteking. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mm. in the male skulls, while the female reaches only 141.3 mm. If compared with group averages for Eastern Indians 2 extending in the males from 152.2-1604 mm. and with that of 148.9 mm. for the San Miguel island series in the Museum, it will be seen that the Texas skulls occupy a medium station. Our female skull of 141.3 mm., on the other hand, falls short of both the Eastern Indian range of 146.4- 150.0 mm. and the San Miguel island average of 142.6 mm. The most extraordinary feature, however, in the present skulls, is their marked dolichocrany, which in two of them (891, 895) even attains hyperdolichocranial status. The marked length of our crania furthermore is of decisive influence in the length-height proportion where with two exceptions the indices are cha- maecranial, while in the exceptions (892, 893) the marked lengths are matched by greater height extensions. The cranial breadth, dis¬ tinctly small in a general physiological range of from 101-173 mm., has a decided influence in the transverse parietofrontal and craniofacial indices, rendering three crania stenometopic, one meso- metopic, and one eurymetopic, which latter, - Hrdlicka, Ales, 1916. Physical Anthropology of the Lenape or Delawares, and the Eastern Indians in General Bull. 62, Bur. Amer. Ethnol., p. 118. ’ [342]