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Forensic Exam Midterm Flashcards

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Father of American Forensic Anthropology

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Thomas Dwight (1843-1911)

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Identified the remains in the Leutgart case as human

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George Dorsey

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Zoologist who became interested in dermatoglyphics and facial reconstruction

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Harris H. Wilder

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First to provide stature information on Chinese

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Paul Stevenson

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Founder of the AAPA who worked on race estimations

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Ales Hrdlicka

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Worked with a massive skeletal collection and developed an age estimation method based on the pubic symphysis

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T. Wingate Todd

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Anatomist from WashU who built a large skeletal collection

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Robert J. Terry

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Mentor to Dr. Bass and published the Guide to the Identification of Human Skeletal Material in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin

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Wilton Krogman

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CILHI—what is the current name?

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Central Identification Laboratory Hawaii: name changed to Joint POW/MIA Accounting Central Identification Laboratory (JPAC-CIL).

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First anthropologist at CILHI, worked at Kentucky, introduced Bass to anthropology.

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Charles Snow

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worked with Terry at WashU, replaced Snow at CILHI, and worked on stature estimation with Gleser

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Mildred Trotter

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Identification of the Korean War dead at CILHI

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T. Dale Stewart

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Developed FORDISC

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Richard Jantz

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Founded the modern anthropology department at UT and the skeletal collection that now exceeds 1,000 individuals.

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William Bass

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Describe the requirements of the Daubert Rule

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Testimony content must be testable with the scientific method, there must be professional standards, and error rates must be known and used.

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What was formed in response to Daubert and from criticism from the scientific community?

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SWGANTH: Scientific Working Group for Forensic Anthropology

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Myositis ossificans

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muscle ossification

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microcephaly

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brain case is very reduced in size

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What is a bipartite parietal?

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When the parietal bone develops from two parts and there is a suture between them.

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What is the best way to sex a subadult skeleton?

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DNA analysis

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2,000 individuals from NYC

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Huntington Collection

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4,000 individuals from Cleveland, OH

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Hamann-Todd Collection

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2,000 individuals from St. Louis housed now at the Smithsonian

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Terry Collection

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1,100 Individuals from Eastern USA housed at UT

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Bass Collection

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2,000 hyoids, 2,000 clavicles from Eastern TN
McCormick Collection
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50 fetal individuals at the Smithsonian Institution
Hrdlicka Collection
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50 fetal individuals at WashU
Trotter Collection
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230 individuals from USA, mostly NM
University of New Mexico Documented Collection
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Males tend to have a ___ chin; females a ___ chin
square males, female rounded
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Superior border orbits in males are typically ___ whereas in females they are
duller, blunter; in females sharper.
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Ventral arc
females typically have; males do not
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A billowed right fourth rib sternal end indicates
youthfulness
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What are some problems in the use of non-metric traits for ancestry estimation?
Experience is mandatory, there is little quantification, the methods haven't changed, the terms are hard to define: Oval window? A Quonset Hut?, etc. no statistics can be applied.
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What are some features of a female pelvis?
The presence of a ventral arc, subpubic concavity, and a sharp medial aspect to the ischiopubic ramus. The presence of a preauricular sulcus and a wide greater sciatic notch also support female sex.
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What components are used in age estimation?
Fourth rib end morphology and the pelvis: pubis symphysis and auricular surface morphology.
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George Dorsey
Leutgart Case
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Thomas Dwight
founding father of american forensic anthropology
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Harris Wilder
dermatoglypics and facial reconstruction
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Paul Stevenson
Chinese population age and stature estimation
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Ales Hrdlicka
AAPA founder who worked on race estimation
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T. Wingate Todd
Todd Collection; age estimation based on the pubic symphysis
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Robery Terry
built a large skeletal collection
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What are the Phenice traits?
Ventral arc, sharp medial aspect of the ischiopubic ramus, and subpubic concavity
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A wide greater sciatic notch and preauricular sulcus suggest
female sex
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Billowed 4th rib head morphology and billows in the auricular morphology of the pelvis suggest
young age
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Mildred Trotter
worked with Goldine Gleser to generate regression formulae for stature estimation from long bones using Korean War dead and the Terry collection
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What are some traits used in ancestry estimation?
postbregmatic depression, nasal aperture width, interorbital width, inferior nasal aperture, anterior nasal spine, transverse palatine suture, posterior zygomatic tubercle, supranasal suture (metopic remnant), zygomaticomaxillary suture shape.
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What are the two ways to measure stature?
The anatomical method (Dwight) and the regression method (Trotter and Gleser).
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Describe some of the morphological changes to the auricular surface with age
A fine-grained billowed surface in youth gains striae and retroauricular activity, then granularity and microporsity and more retroauricular activity appear, and then micro/macroporosity and more extensive grandularity.
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Males or females have heavier temporal lines
Males
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Males or females have a square chin
Males
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The supraorbital margin of females is more
sharper than the dull/blunt border of males
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Morress, Fanning, and Hunt
Crown and root development for age estimation
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Harris and McKee
broader application of the MFH method to a large population
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Suchey-Brooks method
phase 1-6 method for characterizing the pubic symphysis
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Lovejoy method is used for
auricular surface morphology (age)
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Rib phases for sternal end morphology age estimation were established by
Iscan and Loth
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Lamendin root translucency is
(1992) a very reliable way to estimate age from dentition
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Types 1-3 cranial landmarks
Type I: intersection of sutures or other distinct boundaries. Type II: deepest incurvature or greatest extension along a curve. Type III: endpoints for a maximum along a linear axis.
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Identification of Korean War dead at CILHI; identification work for the FBI
T. Dale Stewart

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