World Craniometric Variation

Dataset from Model-Based Clustering of World Craniometric Variation
by Dienekes Pontiko

http://dienekes.angeltowns.net/articles/anthropologica/clustering.html

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Abstract
Model-based clustering is applied to 2,504 crania of 28 populations of recent Homo sapiens using 57 cranial metric variates. This technique uses no a priori knowledge about the population affiliation of each skull. Model-based clustering varies the number and form of the clusters and selects a “good” model, showing a balance of data fit and parsimony, using the Bayes Information Criterion. Fourteen separate clusters were identified in the best run, each of which corresponds strongly to either one of the original populations, or to a racial group. It is shown that cranial variation can be used to infer ethno-racial affiliation.