Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Anthropometry is the comparative study and measurement of the various skeletal characteristics in humans. These characteristics include bone lengths, particularly the measurement of facial bones. Measurements were compared and various ethnic groups were categorized based on cranial measurements. 1930s Germany was known to use Anthropometry to classify different humans and determine their ethnic background. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it.\n This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.