The crania from modern cemeteries in Jaksice (Kujawsko-Pomorskie Province, Poland) and craniometric relationships among medieval and modern Central European populations
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2006
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The paper presents the anthropometric characteristics of the crania from church cemeteries
in Jaksice (Kujawy, Poland). The archaeological excavations in Jaksice were carried out in
1968 and 1969. The crania found were dated to the 15th and 17th centuries.
For each cranium 10 anthropometric measurements were taken according to R. Martin’s
(1928) technique. Their sex and age were estimated according to the methods recommended by European
anthropologists. Data on craniological traits for 21 populations from Poland were collected
from literature. Using principal components analysis differentiation of the Late Middle Ages and
modern populations from Poland was analysed. The analysis was performed also with the use of
the biological distance and the cluster analysis methods. High degree of resemblance of the studied
crania to the crania of Central Poland (Kujawy, Wielkopolska) populations was revealed.
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modern cranium, craniological traits, morphological variability, multivariate analysis, zmienność morfologiczna
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Studies in Historical Anthropology, vol. 4, 2004 [2006], pp. 123-135.