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Post by asdf on Feb 4, 2006 20:16:35 GMT -5
In Dienekes' Racial Calculator I was said to be hypsicephalic with a head height of 144 (head leight of 200). But my HLI is 72. Also, I'd measured incorrectly before and gotten 68 or something like that, and it still was hypsicephalic . But that isn't the definition anywhere else AFAIK: Lundman: chamaecephalic | low-vaulted | less than 70 | orthocephalic | medium-vaulted | 70-74.9 | hypsicephalic | high-vaulted | 75 and over |
www.orthomail.us/mambo/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=69&Itemid=79Catholic Encyclopedia: Is there not a true convention on these terms? Also, why does the calculator consider a CI of 75.5 as dolichocephalic?
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Post by Agrippa on Feb 5, 2006 16:21:02 GMT -5
There is a difference between cranial and head measurements btw., as well as between males and females. On the head all measurements are +1, so from 71,0-75,9 (v. Eickstedt) - so its dolichocephalic (head), but it wouldnt be dolichocrane (skull).
Length-Height-Index - everything above 62,6 is a high head - world standard (v. Eickstedt), above 68,6+ = very high.
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Post by Liquid Len on Feb 9, 2006 14:53:14 GMT -5
Length-Height-Index - everything above 62,6 is a high head - world standard (v. Eickstedt), above 68,6+ = very high. This surprises me. I always thought that Lundman's HLI maps were referring to measurements on heads, not skulls; and since he uses the categories Forrester cited, I thought that some living people had a HLI of over 75. Ancient skulls from Anatolia had a HLI that was considerably lower than this, so I assumed that the HLI calculated with the basion-bregma height was lower than the one obtained with the tragion-vertex height on heads. But if I'm rethinking it correctly now, then it just seems logical that the latter must yield the lower HLI. Better comparable to it would be the HLI using the porion-bregma height, and this tends to be much lower than the other two. So the division cited by Forrester is the one for the basion-bregma height on skulls. This is confirmed by www.lab.anhb.uwa.edu.au/hb311/manual2004/CRANIOMETRYlab.htm
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