The Molar Teeth of New Britain Melanesians

Craniometry of Ambrym island / [by] Wilfrid D. Hambly.

“…Krogman (1927) published an article containing data relating to Melanesian dentition with special reference to occlusion. Epstein, 1934) Lower Jaw…”

“…7. 1 8.0 11.2 10.3 10.7 10.1 10.7 9.8 (Shaw, 1931) Melanesian 9.7*11.3 11.1 10.7 11.3 10.6 New Britain (Stein and Epstein, 1934) So familiar have standard deviations for cranial traits become, that when checking over the statistical work of a student a teacher would immediately detect any marked aberration in the value of a standard deviation for any particular trait; for example, in running the eye down our collation of standard deviations for head length (p. 99) the value of 7.13±0.57 is noted at once as being high for that measurement. The reason is not far to seek, since this standard deviation expresses the high variability of head length of a series of deformed skulls from Malekula.…”

Inter-island variation in tooth size of the Cook islanders, and their biological affinities with other Oceanic people.

“…STEIN and EPSTEIN (1934) have odontometrically described the dentitions of 306 skulls from New Britain, Melanesia, but the data were represented only for the measurements of molar teeth. BAILIT et al, (1968) have examined the size and morphology of both the permanent and deciduous teeth of the Nasioi people who live on Bougainville, and stated that they have large permanent teeth like Australoid populations.…”