noun
- Plural of mesocrania; skulls or individuals with a cranial index between 75 and 80, indicating a medium-sized braincase relative to length.
Usage: anthropology; technical; dated
Examples
- Early anthropologists classified human populations into dolichocranies, mesocranies, and brachycranies based on skull measurements.
- The skeletal remains showed characteristics typical of mesocranies from that archaeological period.
- Modern anthropology has largely abandoned the classification of mesocranies in favor of more nuanced genetic and morphological analysis.