The frontal bone is one of the most sexually dimorphic elements of the human skull, due to features such as the glabella, frontal eminences, and frontal inclination. While glabella is …
The mastoid process is one of the most sexually dimorphic features in the human skull, and is therefore often used to identify the sex of skeletons. Numerous techniques for assessing …
D Franklin, A Flavel - International journal of legal medicine, 2015 - Springer
The clavicle is the first bone to ossify in the developing embryo and the last to complete epiphyseal union. It is the latter sustained period of growth that has attracted the interest of …
S Hisham, N Abdullah… - Journal of forensic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Forensic age estimation methods are biased to sex and population; in general, accuracy is reduced when applied to foreign populations. This study assessed the accuracy of the …
ABSTRACT 3D analysis of skeletal volumes has become an important field in digital anthropology studies. The volume of the mastoid process has been proposed to display …
The purpose of this study is to assess sexual dimorphism in the palate and base of adult crania using three-dimensional geometric morphometric methods. The study sample …
The purpose of the present study is to define which regions of the cranium, the upper-face, the orbits and the nasal are the most sexually dimorphic, by using three-dimensional …
M Jones, G Gordon, D Brits - Homo, 2018 - Elsevier
The accurate estimation of age is considered important from an ethical, legal and archaeological perspective. Among the numerous methods based on macroscopic skeletal …
LC Joubert, N Briers, A Meyer - Forensic science international, 2019 - Elsevier
Several studies have indicated that the time of onset of specific age-related changes throughout the human skeleton differs between populations. In this study the well-known …