Skull Triangles: Flinders Petrie, Race Theory and Biometrics
In 1902 the Egyptian archaeologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie published a graph of triangles indicating skull size, shape and ‘racial ability’. In the same year a paper on Naqada crania that had been excavated by Petrie’s team in 1894–5 was published in the anthropometric journal Biometrika, wh...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Ubiquity Press
2016-02-01
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| Series: | Bulletin of the History of Archaeology |
| Online Access: | http://www.archaeologybulletin.org/articles/556 |