ASM 275 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Bone Density, Sym Motors, Calcaneus
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Screen for features leading to a positive identification. 2. reconstruct cause of death, manner of death, help interpret crime scene (unit 3) Know the techniques for assessing sex and which are most and least accurate. Know what features are associated with each sex (for example, ventral arc presence is a female condition) Sexing- discriminating between male and female: metric (measurement based, non-metric (not measurement based) Aging- estimation of an individuals age of death: absolute age, age class (e. g. prenatal; infant 0-3, child 3-12 . , seriation- relative age; youngest to oldest. Use relationship between some measureable feature to height: regression analysis. By determing sex, you eliminate 50% of pool of missing people. Women give birth and men don"t= restructuring of pelvis. Men tend to be larger than women, again evolutionary history of children. Metric- dimensions with breakpoints (ex max diameter of humeral or femoral head) If larger than x, male; if smaller than x, female.