Journals / Selçuk Tıp Dergisi / 2001 / Cilt: 17 - Sayı: 1
Anthropometric analysis of human skulls
- Journal
- Selçuk Tıp Dergisi
- Pages
- 1–6
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Abstract
In our study 85 (40 male and 45 female) human skulls were obtained from skeletal collections belong to the Anatomy Department of the Medical Faculty, University of Selçuk. In this study the use of anthropometric data from the skulls to evaluate the gender differences, and to identify their anthropological cranial types according to the cephalic indices results. Anthropometric skull measurements were used to establish a comparative study between the obtained literature data from previous anthropometric studies on skulls from Asiklihöyük area belong to Neolithic age (5000-3000 B.C.) and skulls from Panaztepe area belong to Islamic period (800 A.D.) on one hand, and on the other hand, skulls belong to contemporary individuals from Konya city (Mid-Anatolia) and Ceyhan city (Sourthern Anatolia),who died during the twentieth century. The results demonstrated that bi-orbital and bizygomatic measurements showed significantly higher values in males (p<0.05) those can be used in the gender differentiation. In males, cephalic index was 79.07 ± 5.22, in females it was 79.50 ± 5.76. In males %30.7 of the skulls and in females %41.6 of the skulls were demostrated the Mesocephal (oval-shape) type which was found to be the most common type in the present study.
Özet
Arastirmamizda Selçuk Üniversitesi Tip Fakültesi Anatomi Anabilim Dali iskelet koleksiyonundan elde edilen eriskin insanlara ait 40 erkek ve 45 kadin toplam 85 adet kafa iskeleti incelendi. Antropometrik analizleri yapilan kafa iskeletlerinde cinsiyetler arasindaki farklilik degerlendirildi ve cephalic indeks verileri ile kafa tipleri tespit edildi. Neolitik çag (M.Ö.5000-3000) Asiklihöyük ve Islam dönemi (M.S. 800) Panaztepe kafa iskeletleri ile 20. yüzyil Konya Orta Anadolu ve Ceyhan Güney Anadolu bölgesi kafa iskeletlerinin antropometrik ölçümleri karsilastirildi. Arastirmamizda biorbital ve bizygomatic mesafeler erkek cinste daha uzun bulundu ve bu parametrelerin cinsiyet ayriminda kullanilabilecegine ait anlamli sonuçlar elde edildi (p<0.05). Cephalic indeks ortalamasi erkeklerde 79.07 ± 5.22, kadinlarda 79.50 ± 5.76 bulundu. Mesocephal (oval kafa) tip kafa hem erkeklerde (%30.7) hem de kadinlarda (%41.6) en fazla oranda saptandi .