This study sought to provide an up-to-date review of the importance of anatomy to human
identification, focusing on the usefulness of anatomical knowledge about the head and neck …

The study of sexual dimorphism in human crania has important applications in the fields of
human evolution and human osteology. Current, the identification of sex from cranial …

The discipline of forensic anthropology has been critiqued for its lack of a theoretical basis.
In response, practitioners often assert that their analyses are implicitly grounded in …

Sexual selection, including mate choice and intrasexual competition, is responsible for the
evolution of some of the most elaborated and sexually dimorphic traits in animals. Although …

Due to disproportionate violence impacting the transgender community, forensic
anthropologists may encounter the remains of trans individuals; however, it is unknown how …

Pattern expressions of morphoscopic cranial traits vary across populations with classification
accuracies being highly dependent on the reference collection to which unknown skulls are …

The cranial trait scoring method presented in Buikstra and Ubelaker (Standards for data
collection from human skeletal remains. Fayetteville, AR: Arkansas Archeological Survey …

Methods for estimating assigned, binary sex at birth from skeletonized remains have
primarily been developed for specific population groups in the US (eg, African American …

Abstract The CAL Milano Cemetery Skeletal Collection is a modern and continuously
growing identified osteological collection of 2127 skeletons under study in the Laboratorio di …

This study uses five well‐documented cranial nonmetric traits (glabella, mastoid process,
mental eminence, supraorbital margin, and nuchal crest) and one additional trait (zygomatic …