Database E.1 Individual Records of Cranial Measurements, Indices, and Capacities in Adults

This database is part of Appendix E, from Ban Chiang, a Prehistoric Village Site in Northeast Thailand, Volume 1: The Human Skeletal Remains (tDAR ID #: 376592). Database E.1 contains metric observations (Cranial Measurements, Indices, and Capacities in Adults) by individual burial excavated from the BC and BCES locales at Ban Chiang, Thailand.

Coding information is pasted at the bottom of this abstract, and can also be downloaded as a .txt document at tDAR ID#:

SPECID = Individual Burial Number
First number is excavation locale
1 = BC, 1974 excavation
2 = BCES, 1975 excavation

followed by two spaces and then the burial identification number.
Example: 1 14 is BC Burial 14

AGE
YG ADULT = Young Adult (20-35 years)
MIDAGED = Middle-aged Adult (35-50 years)
OLD = Old Adult (50+ years)
ADULT = Adult (20-50+ years)

SEX = Sex of individual

SITE = Site of excavation

YEAREXAM = Year burial was examined

INSTCODE = Institution where burial was examined
UHM = University of Hawaii at Manoa

Variables MAXCRANL through INTRORB2 were recorded to the nearest millimeter

MAXCRANL = Maximum cranial length

NASOCCIL = Nasio-occipital length

BASINASI = Basion-nasion

BASIBREG = Basion-bregma

MAXCRANB = Maximum cranial breadth

MAXFRONB = Maximum frontal breadth

MINFRONB = Minimum frontal breadth

BISTEPHB = Bistephanic breadth

BIZYGOMB = Bizygomatic breadth

BIAURICB = Biauricular breadth

MINCRANB = Minimum cranial breadth

BIASTERI = Biasterionic breadth

BASIPROS = Basion-prosthion

NASIALVE = Nasion-alveolare

NASALHGT = Nasal height

NASALBTH = Nasal breadth

ORBHGTLF = Orbital height, left

ORBBTHLF = Orbital breadth, left

BIJUGALB = Bijugal breadth

ALVEOLAL = Alveolar length

ALVEOLAB = Alveolar breadth

MASTOIDH = Mastoid height

MASTOIDW = Mastoid width

BIMAXILB = Bimaxillary breadth

BIFRONTB = Bifrontal breadth

BIORBITB = Biorbital breadth

INTERORB = Interorbital breadth

MALRLINF = Malar length, inferior

MALRLMAX = Malar length, maximum

CHEEKHGT = Cheek height

FORAMAGL = Foramen magnum length

NASIBGCR = Nasion-bregma chord

BRGLMDCR = Bregma-lambda chord

LAMOPISC = Lambda-opisthion chord

BIMAXSUB = Bimaxillary subtense

NASFROSB = Nasio-frontal subtense

NASGNAT = Nasion-gnathion height

NASIPROS = Nasion-prosthion

FRONTSUB = Frontal subtense

PARIESUB = Parietal subtense

OCCIPSUB = Occipital subtense

INTRORB2 = Interorbital breadth II

CAPACITY = cranial capacity (reported in cc)

The following are indices that were calculated by computer to four places to the right of the decimal point. During data conversion from mainframe to personal computer format, the indices were truncated to two places right of the decimal point--they were not arithmetically rounded.

CRANINDX = Cranial index

LHINDEX = Height-length index

BHINDEX = Height-breadth index

GNATHIC = Gnathic index

UFINDEX = Upper facial index

ORBINDEX = Orbital index

NASINDEX = Nasal index

MAXALVX = Maxillo-alveolar index

CRANMOD = Cranial module

TFACINDEX = Total facial index