Essay On Correctly Identifying The Sex Of Skeletal Remains

h a character's growth from childhood to adulthood changes throughout the book. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a perfect example of using the technique of a Bildungsroman throughout the novel. We will see how the protagonist, Esperanza in The House on Mango Street, will grow mentally and physically. Here are three specific vignettes in The House on Mango Street that will show how Bildungsroman is used; these are “Hips”, “The First Job” and “Papa Who Wakes Up in the Dark”. Body Paragraph 1 Topic Sentence:

when u try to figure out the way the bones moved all around and it tells them the bones were moved and how long they been there.

Todd collected many of the human skeletal remains in the collection; the majority of the remains collected were unclaimed bodies that came from mortuaries and city hospitals. The demographics that are comprised of in this collection consist of both sexes, various ages ranging from the early 30’s to early 80’s, different ethnicities, and being labeled as either “W” or “B” for white and black respectively.

At 4 pm, in a certain park, 2 skeletons were found lying side by side behind the bushes. It was concluded that the two were a couple because they were holding hands whilst the skull was facing each other. A femur, pelvic girdles, skulls, tibia, and humerus were taken from each of the skeleton and observations were made to identify their gender, race, age, and height. One is a female, and the other was a male, also the skeletons pretty much remained intact from being undisturbed however, a few of the hand or feet bones can be found lying a little further off perhaps due to the scattering of birds.

If you were a forensic anthropologist and were studying human remains, what information would you look for in the bones? Why would this information be helpful?

In my paper, I will explain forensic osteology and how it helps determine child abuse. I will also explain different cultures and situations where child abuse cases take place. I will describe where child abuse has taken place even in ancient times. Lastly, I will explain the challenges of forensic osteology in determining child abuse, what could be mistaken for it, and how it’s properly analyzed.

After finding some skeletal remains, the police have provided a list of three missing persons, Kim Lee, Theresa Woods and Jonathan Parker. While spending multiple days in the lab, plenty of information was collected to help with the identification of the bones, such as the sex of the victim, the age of the victim and the approximate height and race of the victim. This data was compiled to draw a conclusion and safely identify the remains.

In site one, where the Parahomo fracticranius was discovered, it can be assumed that the habitat for the species was an open grassland due to the fact that other fossils of animals that lived in the area were grazers. Since there were 14 remains of both male and female sexes, it can be assumed that the P. fracticranius lived in a large multi-male, multi-female system. Based on the lectures from class, it is known that for most cases, multi-male, multi-female environments result in polypoly mating (Atkisson Lecture: Primate mating systems and primate evo). Therefore, it can be assumed that the P. fracticranius not only engaged in polypoly mating, but they also had some sexual dimorphism and large testes. The evidence that supports the sexual dimorphism claim can be seen when the body size of the female and male are compared since the male’s body size is 41 kg larger than the female’s.

Another way they have figured out is measuring the humerus. If you are a female you measure her humerus in centimeters and multiply it by 3.08 and then add 64.67. If you are a male you measure in centimeters and multiply it by 2.89 and then add

After we had collected the bones and brought them back to the lab, I observed them closely to identify the gender. I had already cleaned them so don’t be like “Ewww! She’s touching gross dead people!” The victim was most likely a woman because they had long hair, but in a place like Miami, you never know. I first examined the victim’s pelvis, which turned out to be wide and shallow. I had read an article called “Identifying the Victim” to see how thoroughly it had described the process of figuring out who a missing person is. I actually learned that a characteristic women have is a wide and shallow pelvis.

First we figured out whether the bones were male or female. It was discovered they were female from taking measurements from the skull, humerus, pelvis and tibia. The pelvis, which we measured first had ¾ of the traits pointing to being a female, including the sub-pubic angle, Greater Sciatic Notch and the cavity shape. Then the skull had results of ⅜ traits being a female. That is what threw us off. How could it be so different from our first result with the pelvis. After much discussion it was decided that since on the skull we used qualitative data that it wasn’t as strong of evidence. Lastly for the tibia and humerus, we got 6/6 traits being positive to female. All of this quantitative and qualitative information was put together to determine that the bones were from a female.

One way is forensic identity. Forensic identity tells who the person is and how old they are. The second is cannibal identity which is how people describe themselves and their experiences. In order to determine who that person was, anthropologist measure their biological sex by looking at the pelvis the sub cubic area. Rosen stated that males sub cubic are more narrow and looks similar to a triangle while a female’s is wider. They also pay close attention to the structure of the bones to determine the height, age, past trauma or past illness of that

Yet this is not often, what researchers find when looking at various cultural funerary places. For instance, in the burial sites of the Mayan, Late Classical period at Xuenkal, and Yucata´ n in Mexico, their location was compromised due to the region's climate. In this area there are many sinkholes, the soil has high moisture content, and construction of homes added to the loss of integrity to the sites (Tiesler, et al., 2010:366). Researchers at this location had to decide which bodies belong to what burial (Tiesler, et al., 2010:368). In order to determine if initial findings were correct, lab analysis was conducted, to reexamine these remains (Tiesler, et al., 2010:369). After studying the sites, researchers determined that cranial

In order to develop an in-depth understanding of each of the factors that contributed to the health and well-being of an individual, bioarchaeologists collaborate with researchers from multiple disciplines, such as biology, epidemiology, and demography to assess the context of remains (Larsen, 2015:66). This integrative approach ultimately allows for the consideration of a wide range of factors that may have contributed to an individual’s social history (Martin et al., 2013:60). In particular, this knowledge is used to create an osteobiography of the sociocultural and biological factors that were experienced by the individual throughout their lifetime (Lecture: Week 8). Through the use of this osteobiography, bioarchaeologists can gain critical insights into the social and biological phenomena that may have contributed to the presence of skeletal indicators, such as abnormal lesions, or stunted growth patterns that are demonstrated in many past populations (Larsen, 2015:425). While growth or stature may be interpreted simply as a result of genetic factors, bioarchaeologists integrate data from across several different domains in order to determine whether stature, or height-for-age, is the result of biological or environmental stressors, or a combination of both (Larsen, 2015:426).

(25). In the present study, there was a significant difference regarding rugae length in both genders, with the primary rugae being the commonest. This conforms with the study by Thomas and Kotze, who described the strong discriminatory ability of the secondary and fragmentary rugae in different human populations (26). Dohke and Osato, on studying the Japanese population, reported fewer numbers of secondary rugae in the females than the males and considered their use in sex differentiation (20). On the other hand, Kapali et al in their study on the Australian population, and Saraf et al, on studying the Indian population, did not reveal any signifi-cant differences in the number of primary rugae between males and females (11, 21). This coherent species difference could reflect the importance of studying the palatal rugae in different populations and making