Ancestry estimation in forensic anthropology: A review

RR Dunn, MC Spiros, KR Kamnikar… - Wiley …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Forensic anthropologists assist law enforcement agencies and medical examiner's offices
with investigations involving human remains, providing insight into trauma analysis, the …

The role of forensic anthropological techniques in identifying America's war dead from past conflicts

WR Belcher, CY Shiroma, LA Chesson… - Wiley …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Scientific Analysis Directorate of the US Department of Defense's (DoD)
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) is a unique entity within the US Government …

rASUDAS: a new web-based application for estimating ancestry from tooth morphology

GR Scott, MA Pilloud, D Navega… - Forensic …, 2018 - researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk
The use of crown and root morphology to estimate population relationships has a long
history in dental anthropology. Over the past two decades, methods employing dental …

Introducing human mandible identification [(hu) MANid]: a free, web‐based GUI to classify human mandibles

GE Berg, MW Kenyhercz - Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Statistical programs have revolutionized the way in which forensic anthropologists conduct
casework by allowing practitioners to use computationally complex analytics at the click of a …

Photo‐realistic statistical skull morphotypes: new exemplars for ancestry and sex estimation in forensic anthropology

J Caple, CN Stephan - Journal of forensic sciences, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Graphic exemplars of cranial sex and ancestry are essential to forensic anthropology for
standardizing casework, training analysts, and communicating group trends. To date …

Computational tools in forensic anthropology: The value of open-source licensing as a standard

JJ Lynch, CN Stephan - Forensic Anthropology, 2018 - search.proquest.com
Over the last 40 years, the number of computational tools in forensic anthropology has
increased considerably. No longer are forensic anthropologists limited to the narrow suite of …

Examining interobserver reliability of metric and morphoscopic characteristics of the mandible

JF Byrnes, MW Kenyhercz… - Journal of forensic …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Mandibular metric and morphological characteristics have long been used for sex and
ancestry estimation. Currently, there are no large‐scale studies examining interobserver …

Tailored logistic regression models for sex estimation of unknown individuals using the published population data of the humeral epiphyses

MAH Attia, BAES Aboulnoor - Legal Medicine, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper introduces a far-flung approach to formulate population independent models
based on the humeral epiphyses as a supplementary tool for biological sex estimation of …

Sex estimation of unknown human skeletal remains

GE Berg - Forensic Anthropology: A Comprehensive Introduction, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter explores the approaches and methods used to determine sex from the human
skeleton. Skeletal sex determination in medico-legal or archaeological context is a key …

[PDF][PDF] Working with the remains in Cambodia: Skeletal analysis and human rights after atrocity

JM Fleischman - Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International …, 2016 - academia.edu
This essay will discuss the research being conducted on Khmer Rouge-era human skeletal
remains in Cambodia, and the implications of this work. First, the Cambodian project to …