This note has to do with availability to others of my database of cranial measurements, compiled from 1965 t o 1980 and treated by me in three monographs (1973, 1989, 1995.) The Anthropology Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has undertaken to supply it to qualified users. This is a particularly satisfactory arrangement, given their facilities and the special qualifications a...

Abstract Craniometric characteristics have long been used to reconstruct among-group variation, potential migration routes and ancestral origins. This study presents results of the comparison 946 individuals from 16 British medieval sites using craniometric analyses. The purpose is determine: 1) if observable cranial variation exists among groups, 2) whether it can best be detected neurocranial...

Currently, one of the major debates about the American peopling focuses on the number of populations that originated the biological diversity found in the continent during the Holocene. The studies of craniometric variation in American human remains dating from that period have shown morphological differences between the earliest settlers of the continent and some of the later Amerindian popula...

Debates surrounding the nature of the Neolithic demographic transition in Europe have historically centered on two opposing models: a "demic" diffusion model whereby incoming farmers from the Near East and Anatolia effectively replaced or completely assimilated indigenous Mesolithic foraging communities, and an "indigenist" model resting on the assumption that ideas relating to agriculture and ...

The aim of the study was to investigate head structures two domestic sheep breeds (Hasak and Hasmer) in Turkey. Gender neutral eight adult Hasmer 45-66 kg Hasak 43-66 obtained from Bahri Dag˘das¸ International Agricultural Research Institute were used this study. Measurements made using digital caliper 40 points on skulls both species. skull (265.56 ± 14.08) longer than (262.86 9.65). Howeve...

The extent to which the transition to agriculture in Europe was the result of biological (demic) diffusion from the Near East or the adoption of farming practices by indigenous hunter-gatherers is subject to continuing debate. Thus far, archaeological study and the analysis of modern and ancient European DNA have yielded inconclusive results regarding these hypotheses. Here we test these ideas ...