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Review of craniometrical landmarks and measurements for functional and ontogenetic researches on the respiratory part of facial skeleton

Evteev A.A.

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia

Evteev A.A., ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6254-1203, e-mail: evteandr@gmail.com

Abstract

First part of the article gives a brief review concerning methodological difficulties when «traditional» craniometric systems (e.g., Alexeev-Debets or Howells) are used in researches aimed to address either functional or ontogenetic aspects of craniofacial diversity. The most common critical notes found in literature regarding these systems are listed. «Traditional» craniometric systems often give too general and incomplete description of morphological structures from the biological point of view. At the next level of investigation, a tradition exists to analyze together measurements from different «modules» of the cranium: vault, basicranium, masticatory and respiratory parts of the facial skeleton. It is a serious constrain for both functional and ontogenetic studies. This is followed by a review of landmarks and measurements suggested and used by many investigators for special functional and ontogenetic researches on the nasofacial structures (including nasal bones, frontal and zygomatic processes of the maxilla, nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses) as well as for their more precise description. The review is not aimed to list all the landmarks and measurements existing in the vast literature on the subject but rather to come up with a relatively compact system of selected measurements. Just a small number of these landmarks and measurements is suggested by the author for the first time but most of them are well-known and are selected from several old and new publications. The system contains 29 landmarks, which can easily be used for analysis by GMM techniques and 48 linear measurements.

Keywords

craniometric programs, respiratory function, facial skeleton

Цит.: Evteev A.A. Review of craniometrical landmarks and measurements for functional and ontogenetic researches on the respiratory part of facial skeleton // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2010; 2/2010; с. 62-76