The University Museum
The University of Tokyo
Bulletin No.11
STATISTICAL AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES
OF
THE AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL DENTITION
Kazuro HANIHARA
1976 TOKYO
CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. Materials Used
3. Methods of Investigation
3.1. Measurements
3.2. Observations
3.3. Statistical Computations
4. Tooth Crown Measurements
4.1. Comparison of Individual Teeth between Populations
4.1.1. Deciduous Dentition
4.1.2. Permanent Dentition
4.1.3. Depth of Lingual Fossa in the Permanent Maxillary Central Incisors
4.2. Sex Difference in Mesiodistal Crown Diameters as a Whole
4.3. Comparison of Mesiodistal Crown Diameters between Yuendumu and Queensland Materials
4.4. Principal Component Analysis
4.4.1. Principal Component Analysis of the Mesiodistal Crown Diameters
4.4.2. Comparison of Populations in Terms of Principal Components of the Mesiodistal Crown Diameters
4.5. Distance Analysis
4.5.1. Mahalanobis' Generalized Distance Based on the Mesiodistal Crown Diameters in the Permanent Dentition
4.5.2. Penrose's Shape Distance Based on the Mesiodistal Crown Diameters of the Permanent and Deciduous Dentitions
5. Non-Metric Tooth Crown Characters
5.1. Description of Non-Metric Crown Characters Used in the Present Study
5.2. Frequencies of Non-Metric Crown Characters in the Permanent Dentition
5.3. Frequencies of Non-Metric Crown Characters in the Deciduous Dentition
5.4. Affinities of Populations Viewed from Biological Distance Based on the Non-Metric Crown Characters
6. Discussion
7. Summary and Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Kazuro HANIHARA
Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo
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