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==Forensic anthropology== | ==Forensic anthropology== | ||
*Look at bones<ref name=pmid9053560>{{cite journal |author=Sarvesvaran R, Knight BH |title=The examination of skeletal remains |journal=Malays J Pathol |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=117–26 |year=1994 |month=December |pmid=9053560 |doi= |url=}}</ref> | ===General=== | ||
**Identification. | *Look at bones<ref name=pmid9053560>{{cite journal |author=Sarvesvaran R, Knight BH |title=The examination of skeletal remains |journal=Malays J Pathol |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=117–26 |year=1994 |month=December |pmid=9053560 |doi= |url=}}</ref> may assist in: | ||
**Cause of death | **Identification - age, sex. | ||
**Cause of death. | |||
===Male versus female=== | ===Male versus female=== | ||
*Subpubic angle | Pelvic: | ||
*Shape of pelvic inlet (heart-shaped in male, round in female). | *'''Subpubic angle''' - ~70 degrees in males, 90-100 degrees in females. | ||
*Size & shape of obturator foramen | *Shape of '''pelvic inlet''' (heart-shaped in male, round in female). | ||
*Shape of sciatic notch | *Size & shape of '''obturator foramen''' - small & round in females, large and ovoid in males. | ||
*Articular surface pelvic-sacral articulation | *Shape of '''sciatic notch''' - broad in females, narrow in males.<ref name=si_edu>URL: [http://anthropology.si.edu/writteninbone/comic/activity/pdf/Skeleton_male_or_female.pdf http://anthropology.si.edu/writteninbone/comic/activity/pdf/Skeleton_male_or_female.pdf]. Accessed on: 8 September 2010.</ref> | ||
*Shape of angle of mandible | *Articular surface '''pelvic-sacral articulation''' - raised in females, flat in males.<ref name=si_edu>URL: [http://anthropology.si.edu/writteninbone/comic/activity/pdf/Skeleton_male_or_female.pdf http://anthropology.si.edu/writteninbone/comic/activity/pdf/Skeleton_male_or_female.pdf]. Accessed on: 8 September 2010.</ref> | ||
Mandible: | |||
*Shape of '''angle of mandible''' - square-ish in male, round in female.<ref name=si_edu>URL: [http://anthropology.si.edu/writteninbone/comic/activity/pdf/Skeleton_male_or_female.pdf http://anthropology.si.edu/writteninbone/comic/activity/pdf/Skeleton_male_or_female.pdf]. Accessed on: 8 September 2010.</ref> | |||
Notes: | Notes: | ||
*Anthropologic grouping is not absolute, i.e. it may be wrong. | *Anthropologic grouping is not absolute, i.e. it may be wrong. | ||
*Femoral neck-shaft angles ''not'' discriminative.<ref name=pmid9643428>{{cite journal |author=Anderson JY, Trinkaus E |title=Patterns of sexual, bilateral and interpopulational variation in human femoral neck-shaft angles |journal=J. Anat. |volume=192 ( Pt 2) |issue= |pages=279–85 |year=1998 |month=February |pmid= |pmc=1467761 |doi= |url=}}</ref> | *Femoral neck-shaft angles ''not'' discriminative.<ref name=pmid9643428>{{cite journal |author=Anderson JY, Trinkaus E |title=Patterns of sexual, bilateral and interpopulational variation in human femoral neck-shaft angles |journal=J. Anat. |volume=192 ( Pt 2) |issue= |pages=279–85 |year=1998 |month=February |pmid= |pmc=1467761 |doi= |url=}}</ref> | ||
===Additional references=== | |||
*{{cite journal |author=Dirkmaat DC, Cabo LL, Ousley SD, Symes SA |title=New perspectives in forensic anthropology |journal=Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. |volume=Suppl 47 |issue= |pages=33–52 |year=2008 |pmid=19003882 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.20948 |url=}} | |||
*{{cite journal |author=Cattaneo C |title=Forensic anthropology: developments of a classical discipline in the new millennium |journal=Forensic Sci. Int. |volume=165 |issue=2-3 |pages=185–93 |year=2007 |month=January |pmid=16843626 |doi=10.1016/j.forsciint.2006.05.018 |url=}} | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||