Examining the effect of artificial cranial deformation in connection with the metric data of the skull
https://doi.org/10.19055/ams.2020.11/31/6
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Our anthropological research team deals with several aspects of artificially deformed skulls found in archaeological excavations of Northeast Hungary. The skulls were dated to the Hun-Germanic Period (5th-6th century AD). It is important to get to know the effect of artificial cranial deformation as deep as possible. Morphological and metric data of the skulls are described and documented, but further comparative analyses are generally not performed due to the relatively small number of cases and gender differences. In this study, we would like to propose a new, easy-to-apply numeric value: the relative difference (RD) number of distortion introduced by us. This relative difference number allows quantitative measures of the effect of artificial distortion on skull dimensions. Such a calculated relative numeric value, which enables and facilitates comparability, has not been used by researchers yet.