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Craniology

Here are entered anthropological, archaeological, or ethnological works on skulls. Anatomical and pathological works on the skull are entered under Skull. Works on methods of measuring the skull are entered under Craniometry.

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• Physical anthropology

• Craniology -- America
• Craniology -- Canada
• Craniology -- Greece
• Craniology -- Mexico
• Craniometry
• Jaws
• Phrenology
• Indians of North America -- Craniology
• Indians of South America -- Craniology

• An Inquiry Into the Distinctive Characteristics of the Aboriginal Race of America (second edition; Philadelphia: J. Penington, 1844), by Samuel George Morton
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Crania Americana: or, A Comparative View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America; To Which is Prefixed, An Essay on the Varieties of the Human Species (with an appendix by Combe; Philadelphia: J. Dobson; London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1839), by Samuel George Morton, contrib. by George Combe, illust. by John Collins
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Some Physical Characteristics of Native Tribes of Canada, by Daniel Wilson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Late Geometric Graves and a Seventh Century Well in the Agora (reprint of Hesperia supplement #2, originally published 1939; this edition Amsterdam: Swets and Zeitlinger, 1975), by Rodney S. Young, contrib. by J. Lawrence Angel (PDF with commentary in Greece)

• Anthropologie Mexicaine: Ostéologie (in French; Mexico City: J. Aguilar Vera y Co., 1900), by Leopoldo Batres
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Measuring the Master Race: Physical Anthropology in Norway, 1890-1945 (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2014), by Jon Røyne Kyllingstad (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Services for Children With Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate: A Guide for Public Health Personnel (New York: American Public Health Association, 1955), by American Public Health Association Committee on Child Health (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beiträge zur Entwicklungsgeschichte von Zähnen und Gebiss der Reptilien (in German; Bonn: F. Cohen, 1919), by M. W. Woerdeman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Beiträge zur Entwicklungsgeschichte von Zähnen und Gebiss der Reptilien (in German; Bonn: F. Cohen, 1919), by M. W. Woerdeman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Elements of Phrenology (1834 American edition), by George Combe (HTML at Plattsburgh)
• How to Read Character: A New Illustrated Hand-Book of Phrenology and Physiognomy for Students and Examiners, With a Descriptive Chart (New York: S. R. Wells, 1870), by Samuel R. Wells
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Physiognomical System of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim: Founded on an Anatomical and Physiological Examination of the Nervous System in General, and of the Brain in Particular; and Indicating the Dispositions and Manifestations of the Mind (second edition; London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1815), by J. G. Spurzheim, contrib. by F. J. Gall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Practical Phrenologist, and Recorder and Delineator of the Character and Talents (Boston: O. S. Fowler, c1869), by O. S. Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology, by O. S. Fowler (page images at MOA)
• A System of Phrenology (fifth edition; Edinburgh: Maclachlan and Stewart, 1853), by George Combe (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
• Loma, a Citizen of Venus (St. Paul, MN: Windsor and Lewis Pub. Co., 1897), by William Windsor
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Scientific Basis of Education, by John Hecker (page images at MOA)
• Crania Americana: or, A Comparative View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America; To Which is Prefixed, An Essay on the Varieties of the Human Species (with an appendix by Combe; Philadelphia: J. Dobson; London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1839), by Samuel George Morton, contrib. by George Combe, illust. by John Collins
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mind as a Cause and Cure of Disease, Presented From a Medical, Scientific and Religious Point of View (Chicago: The author, 1914), by Eli Beers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• On the Supposed Prevalence of One Cranial Type Throughout the American Aborigines (1858), by Daniel Wilson (page images at canadiana.org)

• El Uso de las Cabezas Humanas Artificialmente Momificadas y su Representación en el Antiguo Arte Peruano (doctoral thesis in Spanish; Lima: E. R. Villaran, ca. 1918), by Julio C. Tello (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Puerto Rican Population: A Study in Human Biology (University of Michigan Anthropological Papers #13; 1959), by Frederick P. Thieme (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Anthropological Treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (London: Published for the Anthropological Society, by Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865), by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, trans. by Thomas Bendyshe, contrib. by K. F. H. Marx, P. Flourens, Rudolf Wagner, and John Hunter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Some Physical Characteristics of Native Tribes of Canada, by Daniel Wilson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Studies on the Evolution of the Primates (two studies by Gregory, and an appendix by Matthew, extracted from the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1916), by William K. Gregory, contrib. by William Diller Matthew (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anthropologie Mexicaine: Ostéologie (in French; Mexico City: J. Aguilar Vera y Co., 1900), by Leopoldo Batres
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• American Journal of Physical Anthropology (partial serial archives)
• Anthropologischer Anzeiger (in German) (partial serial archives)
• Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Anthropologie (in German) (partial serial archives)

• The Taming of Evolution: The Persistence of Nonevolutionary Views in the Study of Humans (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1984), by Davydd J. Greenwood (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Anthropometric Standards: An Interactive Nutritional Reference of Body Size and Body Composition for Children and Adults (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2008), by A. Roberto Frisancho (page images at HathiTrust)

• Somatic Development of Adolescent Boys: A Study of the Growth of Boys During the Second Decade of Life (New York: Macmillan, 1951), by Herbert Rowell Stolz and Lois Meek Stolz (page images at HathiTrust)

• New Directions in Dental Anthropology: Paradigms, Methodologies and Outcomes (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2012), ed. by Grant Townsend, Eisaku Kanazawa, and Hiroshi Takayama (multiple formats with commentary at Adelaide)

• A Brief History of Human Behaviour, and How to Become an Enlightened Global Citizen (c2013), by John Preece (multiple formats with commentary at Smashwords)
• Edges of the State (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2019), by John Protevi (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
• An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach: Freedom and Agency (London and Sterling, VA: Earthscan, c2009), ed. by Séverine Deneulin and Lila Shahani (PDF and illustrated HTML at idrc.ca)
• Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity: The Limits of Political Realism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), by Gregory Crane (HTML at UC Press)
• The Manipulation of Human Behavior (New York and London: John Wiley and Sons, c1961), ed. by Albert D. Biderman and Herbert Zimmer (HTML at archive.org)
• Conflict, Arousal, and Curiosity (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1960), by D. E. Berlyne (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Amazing Journey of Reason: From DNA to Artificial Intelligence (Cham: Springer, c2020), by Mario Alemi (PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer)
• The Taming of Evolution: The Persistence of Nonevolutionary Views in the Study of Humans (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1984), by Davydd J. Greenwood (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c2002), by William H. Calvin (illustrated HTML at williamcalvin.com)
• Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Steven B. Jan (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior (c1999), by Craig B. Stanford (PDF files with commentary at Princeton)
• The Ascent of Mind: Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of Intelligence, by William H. Calvin (HTML at williamcalvin.com)
• Evolution of Sickness and Healing (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Horacio Fabrega (HTML at UC Press)
• Australia and New Zealand as the Home of a New Sub-Race: Four Lectures Delivered Under the Auspices of the Theosophical Society of Sydney in August, 1915 (Sydney: Theosophical Society in Australia, ca. 1915), by C. W. Leadbeater (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homo Schizo (2 volumes), by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)
• The Lowell Lectures on the Ascent of Man, by Henry Drummond (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Meaning of Infancy, by John Fiske (Gutenberg text)
• Studies on the Evolution of the Primates (two studies by Gregory, and an appendix by Matthew, extracted from the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1916), by William K. Gregory, contrib. by William Diller Matthew (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Antiquity of Man, by Charles Lyell, ed. by R. H. Rastall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Man Into Superman, by R. C. W. Ettinger (PDF with commentary at cryonics.org)
• The River that Flows Uphill, by William H. Calvin (illustrated HTML at williamcalvin.com)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.