A 150-Year Conundrum: Cranial Robusticity and Its Bearing on the Origin of Aboriginal Australians

Table 1

Cranial traits used in phenetic studies of WLH50 (characters from [55]).

Character	Developmental subunit*
(1) Angular torus	Vault
(2) Coronal keel	Vault
(3) Sagittal keel on frontal	Vault
(4) Lateral frontal trigone	Vault
(5) Linea obliquus strongly developed	Vault
(6) Mastoid crest	Vault
(7) Sagittal keel on parietal	Vault
(8) Postlambdoidal eminence	Vault
(9) Prebregmatic eminence	Vault
(10) Projecting inion	Vault
(11) Sulcus dividing the medial and lateral elements of the supraorbital torus or superciliary arches	Orbit
(12) Superior margin of the orbit blunt (as opposed to sharp)	Orbit
(13) Suprainiac fossa	Vault
(14) Supramastoid crest	Vault
(15) Temporal line forms a ridge	Vault
(16) Transversely extensive nuchal torus	Vault

*After Ackermann and Cheverud [120].