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The Skeleton Owner 's Gender, Ethnicity, Height, And Age

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INTRODUCTION 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.
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS There were many factors that lead t the discovery of the skeleton owner’s gender, ethnicity, height, and age. …show more content…

Nevertheless, the unidentified person may have had malnutrition, which would lead to stunted growth in certain areas that happened to not affect the humerus or femur. Back to how the results came out, the students plugged the measurements into certain formulas according to race and gender. By having these differences in formula, it made it more accurate because each race and gender, due to genetics, can make the height different. The age was 30 years and above. By observing some of the skeletal structures, it was able to give an estimate. Places that were inspected were the humerus, femur, and pelvis. It was especially the pelvis – where all segments of the sacrum are united with no evidence of epiphyseal unions – that gave away the fact that she was 30 years old plus. The others, like the femur and humerus, would give a general age however the standards stopped at the age of 20; the bone doesn’t shift much past that unless its osteoporosis or something similar.

FURTHER ANALYSIS Facial reconstruction is used as a last resort to identify remains by placing clay atop the skeleton in hopes of reconstructing what that person may look like to get a possible identification. They would gather average tissue thickness from the ethnicity, gender, and age (children, teens, and adults) and apply it to the skull according to the correct gender,

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