Forensic anthropologist 2
Forensic anthropology
Application of physical anthropology's specialised knowledge of human sexual racial age and individual variation to the problems of medical jurisprudence. C C Snow 1973.
- Investigating crimes
- Identifying missing persons
- Testing victims of rape aur murder for clues
- Investigating pathological deaths
- Identifying cause of death, duration of death, weapon used etc.
- Forensic archaeology.
- Notable anthropologists. Sue Black. Clyde Snow identified Oklahoma city bombing victims. Kewal Krishnan India.
Techniques
Identification
- Skeletal remains
- Sex determination. Female skeleton is small Grace I'll smoothed mastoid process is small to medium. Frontal eminence prominent, smaller mandible. Smaller foramen Magnum. Pelvis is broad. Circular inlet. Wider pelvic girdle hundred degree. Smaller teeth mor parabolic. Orbits prominent and projecting.
- Age. By studying ossification centres cranial suture closures and changes in bones and joints.
- At birth. Lower end of femur has ossification
- 4 to 6 year. Centre of ossification at medial epicondyle of humorous
- 7 Rami of pubis and ischium unite
- 8 to 10. Ossification in olecranon.
- 15 to 16. Epiphysis of calcaneus joins the bone.
- Wrist bones unite at 16 in females and 18 in males.
- Sternum fuses from below to upward 14 to 25
- Hardening of intervertebral discs at 40 to 45
- 65 to 70 laryngeal and costal cartilage ossify.
- DNA fingerprinting analysis.
- Fingerprinting analysis
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- Studying fingerprint arch, loop, whorl, bifurcation.
- latent fingerprints are lifted from surfaces that are most for wax. Spray powder off ninhydrin, iodine or soaking in silver nitrate. Then use paper glass metal or plastic to take out the fingerprint. Dactyloscopy to identify fingerprints.
- Henry classification system based on loop arch and whorl.
- Nexa fingerprint software.
- FORDISC program created to calculate likely ancestry through database and maths.
Tootha analysis
