Craniometrics Software: testing and potential applications for the graphical analysis of digitised images in clinical anthropology and osteology.

Abstract

The Craniometrics program was created for the detailed cranio-facial metric analysis of lateral X-ray films of patients with clefts. This involves linear, angular and special dental dimensions.

Keywords

• Craniometrics program
• lateral X-ray films
• photo-documentation of Upper Palaeolithic findings
• reliability of measurement
• systematic error of measurement