Question | Answer |
What other fields are studied with forensic anthropology? | Anthropology/osteology, Odontology, Entomology, and Botany |
What can a forensic anthropologist determine from a whole/part of a bone? | Age, sex, race, height |
How many bones are there in the human body? | 206 |
Age Determination: Sutures | Three major cranial sutures appear as distinct lines in youth and gradually close from the inside out |
Age Determination: Basilar suture | closes in females as young as 14 and males 16, if the suture is open, the individual is generally 18 or younger |
Gender differences | females have a wider pelvis, the ribcage and shoulders of males are genreally wider and larger, males have a shorter index finger, males have a sloping forehead, and females have a straighter forehead. |
Height | can be calculated by using the length of certain bones: femur, tibia, humerus, and/or radius |
Four skull groups | Caucasian, African American, Asian (Mongoloid), and American Indian |
African ancestry | more flared nasal opening |
Asian ancestry | cheek bone more angled forward, giving the person a slightly more flattened face |