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A measurements table from Rollet 1888, pp. 16-23. Data as given without calculated columns and stature in millimeters as for the measures. Further explanation mentions a general shrinking of the bones by app. 2 mm within eight to ten months after the first measures in fresh condition. This differentiation is shown in the tables for the femora only. (Rollet 1888 p.24)

Format

A data frame with 100 rows and 18 variables.

  • Nr identifier

  • Sex: f, m -> female, male

  • Age in years

  • Stature measures mm

  • Femur.right measures mm

  • Femur.left measures mm

  • Femur.right.dry measures mm

  • Femur.left.dry measures mm

  • Tibia.right measures mm

  • Tibia.left measures mm

  • Fibula.right measures mm

  • Fibula.left measures mm

  • Humerus.right measures mm

  • Humerus.left measures mm

  • Radius.right measures mm

  • Radius.left measures mm

  • Ulna.right measures mm

  • Ulna.left measures mm

References

Rollet E (1888). De la mensuration des os longs des membres dans ses rapports avec l’anthropologie, la clinique et la médicine judicaire. A. Storck, Lyon. https://archive.org/details/BIUSante_57377/page/n11/mode/2up.