We already have forty years of experience in Latin America the application anthropology and forensic archaeology to search for missing persons investigations gross violations human rights international humanitarian law. Despite this long trajectory very important work, most striking protagonists meta-analysis work literature its impact recent not been scientists themselves, but social scientist...

Estimation of stature is an important step in developing a biological profile for human identification. It may provide a valuable indicator for unknown individual in a population. The aim of this study was to analyses the relationship between stature and lower limb dimensions in the Malaysian population. The sample comprised 100 corpses, which included 69 males and 31 females between age ranges...

Abstract Background The human external ear is unique in every individual terms of shape, size and dimension making it suitable forensic anthropology for sex estimation personal identification purposes. study aimed to evaluate sexual dimorphism ethnic specificity the major Nigerian populations. Results There was variation morphological features sampled subjects. vary right left ears both sexes g...

The estimation of biological sex is paramount significance for the identification anonymous skeletal remains in contemporary medico-legal contexts or bioarcheological studies past societies. Sex techniques are usually affected by population-specific sexual dimorphism. As such, need distinctive standards each population has long been acknowledged. This paper aims to document and critically addre...

IntrOductIOn The four parameters i.e., stature evaluation, age estimation, sex determination and population affiliation have been considered as the “Big Fours” of forensic anthropology. Various studies have been conducted and some are in progress in many parts of the world in this regards. Although a number of studies have been conducted in the last century or so, with regards to sexual dimorph...

Estimation of stature is an important step in developing a biological profile for human identification. It may provide a valuable indicator for unknown individual in a population. The aim of this study was to analyses the relationship between stature and lower limb dimensions in the Malaysian population. The sample comprised 100 corpses, which included 69 males and 31 females between age ranges...

Anthropology is now one of the inter-disciplinary scientific fields that is gaining much attention in forensic, socio-cultural, industrial and bio-medical applications. There is a need for a better awareness of some of the impacts--past and present, in the medical practice, of the records that were obtained by workers in this field in view of their proper applications, and future reference. Com...