Published: 2024-06-01

Quantifying Sexual Dimorphism in Scapular Morphology

Savannah Holcombe, Joseph T. Hefner, Micayla C. Spiros, Luis L. Cabo
Abstract

This project explores sexual differences in scapular morphology through linear measurements (LMs) and geometric morphometric (GM) methods....

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Infracranial Epigenetic Variation and the Identification of Unknown Human Skeletal Remains

Shelby Scott, Tracy L. Rogers
Abstract

After a potential match pool has been narrowed using the biological profile, forensic anthropologists often rely on the presence of qualitative...

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Informative Priors Produce Precision

Accuracy Trade-off in Dental Developmental Age Estimation

Valerie Sgheiza
Abstract

Informative priors in Bayesian analyses improve estimates of adult age, but effects in developmental age estimation are
unknown....

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Characteristics of Vertebral Body Augmentation in Human Skeletal Remains

Nicholas V. Passalacqua, Emma Taylor, Amelia Konda, Nuwan Perera, Rebecca L. George, Erin N. Chapman, Dominique Rowcroft
Abstract

Vertebral body compression fractures are extremely common in adults in the United States, particularly postmenopausal women. Vertebral body...

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Comparison of Visual and Statistical Pair Matching of the Humerus in a Large Assemblage

Carrie B. LeGarde
Abstract

Determining whether antimeres are consistent with each other is important in estimating the minimum number of individuals in an assemblage, and...

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