Author: Novotny, Vladimir V.; editor:
Title: IInd Anthropological Congress of Ales Hrdlicka: Proceedings...September 3-7, 1979
Description: Prague, Universitatis Carolina, 1982. orig.cloth. 24x17cm, 504 pp. Textual photos & drawings.. Minor rubbing. VG. In a rubbed & torn dustwrapper. dustwrapper. ¶ Contains 107 papers, all in English, concerning: Thematics of Dr. A. Hrdlicka; General Anthropology; Human Ontogenesis; Anthropology of Adults; Functional Anthropology; Anthropology in Medicine; Dermatoglyphics; Ethnical Anthropology; Historical Anthropology; Paleoanthropology; Paleopathology; Osteology. Includes: Hrdlicka's Data on Arctic Mongolid: A Preliminary Synthesis; The Study of Man in Psychotronic Anthropology; Growth & Development of Children in Humid Subtropical Climate; Some Anthropological Aspects in Relation to Teeth Colour; Basal Metabolism & Body Cell Mass in Adolescence; On the Definition of Obesity; The Foot-Arch & Top Sport; Clinical Anthropology of Acromegaly; Physiology & Pathology of Puberty; Changes in Biological Age of Juveniles with Great Physical Load; Somatype & Ischaemic Heart Disease; Palmar & Plantar Flexion Patterns in the Population of the 'Iron Gates' Area; World Variability of Digital Ridge-Counts; The Dactyloglyphic Structure: A Correspondence Analysis of Male Ridge Counts; The Intercorrelations in Male & Female Finger Ridge-Counts; Human Population Types in Ancient India: A Study in Spatio-Temporal Contexts; Dimensions of the Gipsy Newborns in the District Rimavarska Sobota & Hnústá; The Study of Some Biological Parameters of the Rom (Gypsy) Girls; Anthropometric Analysis of the Late Roman - Early Byzantine Burial Complexes at Sayala, Egyptian Nubia; Changes in the Body Stature of Lithuanians during the Millenia A.D.; Teritary Hominids from India: A Revised Scheme of Phylotaxonomy; Macrodontism as the Result of a

Keywords: Physical Anthropology, Human Ontogenesis, Biometrics, Dermatoglyphics, Ales Hrdlicka, Paleopathology, Paleoanthropology, Osteology, Biology