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Developments in the identification of human skeletal material (1968–1978)
Author(s) -
Bass William M.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
american journal of physical anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1096-8644
pISSN - 0002-9483
DOI - 10.1002/ajpa.1330510407
Subject(s) - biological anthropology , anthropometry , identification (biology) , bone structure , race (biology) , biology , anatomy , geography , archaeology , paleontology , botany
A review of publications over the last ten years of methods in the field of physical anthropology for determining age, sex, race and stature of human skeletal material is presented. Comparisons are made with the types of papers published in the previous ten years (1958–1968) in six categories: (1) Visual examination of bones (2) Anthropometric measurements of bones (3) Anthropometric measurements with subsequent use of statistics in the form of discriminate function analyses (4) Time and sequence of eruption of the teeth (5) X‐ray examination of the internal structure of bone sections (6) Microscopic examination of the internal structure of bone.