Utilizing and expanding the database presented in his earlier monographs Cranial Variation in Man and Skull Shapes and the Map, Howells develops methods for allocating a human skull to one of 28 modern populations for historical or forensic purposes.

William White Howells is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.

Read More by William White Howells:

• The Swarts Ruin: A Typical Mimbres Site in Southwestern New Mexico
• Skull Shapes and the Map: Craniometric Analyses in the Dispersion of Modern Homo