A STUDY OF THE PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND 

 PATHOLOGY OF THE OSTEOLOGICAL MATERIAL 

 FROM THE NORRIS BASIN 



By W. D. Funkhotjser 



Dean of Graduate School and Professor of Anthropology, University of 



Kentucky 



The osteological material from the sites described in this report 

 affords some interesting osteometric data, particularly when com- 

 pared with similar data from other parts of the Mississippi Valley. 



As is to be expected, many of the skeletons are not complete enough 

 to yield a perfect series of measurements, but enough material is 

 available to give a fair picture of the structural characters of the race 

 associated with the region under consideration. 



In reporting on this material all available measurements have been 

 included for each of the skeletons, even though some of it is frag- 

 mentary, but in summaries giving averages and means, only adult 

 males are considered. 



In the following data on individual burials all of the measure- 

 ments are given which were possible for that particular skeleton. 

 The absence of a measurement or index indicates that the material 

 did not permit of the securing of these data. 



All measurements were made in the laboratory with the usual 

 osteometric board and calipers and all measurements are recorded in 

 millimeters. 



In recording the osteological measurements the following data 

 were considered as important and these data were taken whenever 

 possible : 



1. Length of skeleton if extended (vertex to ealcaneum). 



2. Skull: 



(a) Maximum length. 

 (6) Maximum breadth. 



(c) Cephalic index. 



(d) Glabella-inion length. 



(e) Height (basion to bregma). 



(f) Nasal length (nasion to nasospinale). 



(g) Orbits: Maximum length and maximum breadth. 



(h) Occipital foramen: Maximum length and maximum breadth, 

 (i) Sagittal-cranial arc (from nasion over vertex to opisthion). 

 (/) Horizontal circumference (over glabella and inion). 

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