LiVES Collection of Osteological Anthropometry Digest

The collection contains stature-related and other anthropometric data of 7686 skeletal individuals (including aggregated information for several individuals) from the prehistory of Southwest Asia and Europe. While the focus period of our collection is the Holocene ca. 10 000 to 1000 BC, the data collection also includes older specimens of anatomically modern humans (dating as early as 110 k BP in the case of Qafzeh). The upper date range in some cases extends to around 100 AD, although the great majority of datasets date no later than 600 BC. Correctness and completeness were pursued for all information relevant to stature, i.e. basic information such as sex (after Sjøvold 1988) and age (after Szilvássy 1988) as well as the long bone measurements, whereas other measurements were merely inherited from the two integrated older data bases and not explicitly checked. All measurements conform to the definitions given by Martin 1928. To grasp common publication practice in the literature, not only left and right body side, but also mean values from both sides as well as measurements with unknown siding have their own separate fields for the stature-related long bone measurements.

本数据集囊括了来自西南亚及欧洲史前时期的7686具骨骼个体（包括多个个体汇总的信息）的身高及其他体质数据。尽管本数据集的聚焦时期为全新世时期，约公元前10,000年至公元前1000年，但数据收集亦涵盖至解剖学上现代人类较早的样本（如Qafzeh遗址，距今约110千年前）。在某些情况下，上溯日期可达公元100年左右，尽管绝大多数数据集的日期不晚于公元前600年。对于与身高相关的所有信息，包括基本数据如性别（依据Sjøvold 1988年的标准）和年龄（依据Szilvássy 1988年的标准），以及长骨测量值，均追求准确性和完整性，而其他测量值则仅从两个整合的较老数据库中继承，并未进行明确的核实。所有测量值均遵循Martin 1928年所给出的定义。为理解文献中的常见发表惯例，不仅左、右侧身体数据，还包括两侧的平均值以及侧向不明的测量值，均有各自独立的字段用于身高相关的长骨测量。