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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"skeletal collections"”.
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Interpersonal violence and fracture patterns in 18th and 19th century London.
… linked to culture. As such, the analysis of skeletal material presents excellent physical evidence of violent occurrences within communities. The current thesis looks to understand the possible presence of fracture patterns and interpersonal violence in London during the 18th and 19th …
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Orkney's first farmers. Reconstructing biographies from osteological analysis to gain insights into life and society in a Neolithic community on the edge of Atlantic Europe
There has been historical failure to exploit skeletal data in archaeological syntheses of the Neolithic, compounded by poor or cursory osteological reports. This project aimed to discover what Neolithic Orcadian life was like, arguing from skeletal evidence. Orkney¿s exceptional site preservation …
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An Evaluation of Metric Methods of Race Differentiation in the Human Pelvic Girdle for the Application of Expert Witness Testimony
… Finally, this research addressed concerns that skeletal collections like the Robert J. Terry Skeletal Collection are no longer representative of populations within the United States. </p> <p>None of the methods sufficiently separated unknown skeletal remains by race. When the methods were …
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Epigenetic Traits, Computerized Tomography And Native American Identity
… define population affinity. Native American skeletal collections have been diminishing after the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Epigenetic traits have the potential to indicate population affinity in the event cultural affiliation cannot be determined. …
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DIABETES IN PALEOPATHOLOGY: NEW METHODS AND APPLICATIONS
… not well understood. At least thirteen musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) have been associated with diabetes in modern medical literature. Most of these disorders result from changes to bone quality, primarily through the accumulation of byproducts from hyperglycemia. The MSDs included in this …
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A statistical shape analysis of the neurocranium and long bones
Morphological variation of skeletal elements, and the potential use of such variation in distinguishing among demographic groups, is often investigated using traditional metric or non-metric assessments. Traditional approaches, however, often fail to sufficiently capture the "true" shape of …
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Whence came the English?: exploring relationships between the Iron Age, Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon periods in Britain and Denmark : a craniometric biodistance analysis
… craniometric data, which were collected from skeletal collections, published and unpublished reports, represent over 1400 individuals from the Iron Age, Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon periods in Britain and Denmark. These data have been analysed using univariate, population genetic and matrix …
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Stature estimation: evaluating regression equations for different population groups in South Africa
… Regression formulae are used to calculate total skeletal height or living stature when incomplete, fragmentary or burned human remains are recovered. This study aimed to evaluate the reliability of the total skeletal height regression formulae from (1) Lundy and Feldesman (1987), and (2) Dayal et …
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Ancestral variation in mid-craniofacial morphology in a South African sample
… by forensic anthropologists when unknown skeletal remains are discovered. The mid-craniofacial region is most frequently used to estimate ancestry as this region reflects the genetic and morphological ancestry of an individual. The diverse composition of the South African population makes …
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Using Fluctuating Asymmetry to Understand the Biological Implications of Social Race
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Study of Pelvic Growth and Development Through Examination of Interlandmark Distances and Geometric Morphometric Analyses: Implications for Subadult Skeletal Sex and Age Estimation
… for age and sex estimations of unidentified skeletal remains. However, because subadult individuals are an underrepresented demographic in skeletal collections there is a lack of ontogenetic knowledge of the sub-elements (ilium, ischium, and pubis) and the overall pelvic complex. …
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A view of colonial life in South Australia: An osteological investigation of the health status among 19th-century migrant settlers
Studies of human skeletal remains contribute to understanding the extent to which conditions prevailing in various past communities were detrimental to health. Few of these studies have evaluated the situation in which the first European colonists of South Australia lived. Colonial Australian …