AzBAD: Arizona Biological Affiliation Database

The Arizona Biological Affiliation Database (AzBAD) is a catalog of comparative cranial morphometric data designed to provide an additional tool for assessing cultural affiliation in compliance with state (ARS §41-844/865) or federal (NAGPRA) legislation and facilitate repatriation of human remains to descendant communities. This information is used to create comparative samples that encompass the variability inherent in ancient ancestral populations. Measurements from crania of individuals assessed for determinations of cultural affiliation are compared to those in the database with established cultural affiliations to produce a relative degree of biological affinity between the comparative groups and the individual in question. AzBAD has the potential to contribute significantly to our efforts at Arizona State Museum to determine biological affinity and cultural affiliation for ancestral remains from the state and immediate surrounding region.

亚利桑那生物归属数据库（Arizona Biological Affiliation Database，AzBAD）是一套收录比较颅骨形态测量数据的编目库，旨在提供辅助工具，以符合州法（ARS §41-844/865）或联邦法《北美原住民墓地保护与归还法案》（Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act，简称NAGPRA）的相关要求，用于评估文化归属，并推动人类遗骸向其所属后裔社群的归还工作。该数据集的信息被用于构建比较样本，以涵盖古代祖先种群所固有的形态变异范围。将经评估以确定文化归属的个体颅骨测量数据，与数据库中已明确文化归属的样本测量数据进行比对，从而得出比较组与待评估个体之间的生物亲缘相对程度。AzBAD能够为亚利桑那州立博物馆的相关工作提供重要助力，帮助其确定该州及邻近区域出土的祖先遗骸的生物亲缘关系与文化归属。