Week 1: Introduction to Forensic Anthropology

Scientific Donation:

The pre-registered donor paperwork request information about donors such as birth date, sex, height, weight, number of children, medical history, etc for the purpose of research

Bass Collection

The biggest modern human skeletal remains in the country.

Dr. Parkman

His death in 1849 was considered the start of Forensic ANthropology

Paul Stevenson

Epiphyseal union and stature estimation by using long bones in Chines population

Ales hrdicka

Founded the American journal pf physical anthropology

George Dorsey

Articular surfaces of long bones can be used to indicate sex

Harris H. Wilder

Dermatoglyphics (fingerprints analysis and facia reconstruction bu using skulls

Earnest A Hooton

Human variation with respect to human origins and adaptation

T Wringate Todd

Helped with FBI investigation and founded a collections of donated bones

Robert J. Terry

Terry collection has a better record of names of the individuals

First Textbook

The human Skeleton in Forensic medicine