Project Director

Bodkin,Thomas

Department Examiner

Honerkamp,Nicholas; Guo,Zibin; Lynch, John

Department

Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology, and Geography

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Abstract

Forensic anthropology is the identification of skeletal remams in medicolegal death investigations. The foundation of forensic anthropology rests on "documented" skeletal collections, which provide a crucial repository of information from which experts can rely upon to make determinations about human skeletal remains. A "documented" skeletal collection is one in which the demographics (e.g., ancestry, sex, age, height) of each individual are supported by known facts about the decedent at the time of his/her death. A quantitative comparison between the Hamilton County Forensic Center's(HCFC) skeletal collection to the William M. Bass collection housed at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK) Department of Anthropology was conducted, using a statistical analysis of 17 skeletal measurements. The purpose of this study was to determine if the HCFC skeletal collection possessed an adequate representative sample population for future quantitative studies, whether used by itself or in conjunction with other skeletal collections.

Degree

B. S.; An honors thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Bachelor of Science.

Date

3-2005

Subject

Forensic anthropology--United States

Discipline

Biological and Physical Anthropology

Document Type

Theses

Extent

i, 40 leaves

DCMI Type

Text

Language

English

Call Number

LB2369.5 .V573 2005

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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